Your first ever computer?
 

Do you remember how you started out? Contrary to what people might think about my age, I did not start with a stone Dell with counting balls and elastic, though it wasn't too far from that!

Amstrad PC, don't remember the RAM but it wasn't much and no hard drive. CGA (Colour Graphics Array) monitor --- FOUR whole colours! --- and a 5.25 (Five and a quarter) inch floppy drive. You could play a few games on it and use it for word processing, that was about it. I used to dream about buying an EGA (Enhanced Graphic Array) card to see those other 12 colours!
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...d_CPC_6128.png
After that I got an IBM 286Mhz with 10 Meg hard disk (not gig, meg) and I think 512 K memory. It was big and clunky and if it fell on you it would seriously injure you. It was all built into one, like some bloody huge XT from the 70s. It had a VGA screen so I thought I had arrived. Man what a pile of **** it was, and expensive! Something like 2000 Irish Pounds, which would be about 1700 Euro.
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Do you remember your first rig?

Seriously don't remember. Probably a Commodore 64.

Think it was an IBM. It had windows 95 and a game where you would ski down a slope avoiding trees and at the end a monster would run out and kill you.

It was chit tbh.

Never had an ever computer.

It was some old IBM piece of sh*t running Windows 3.1. After that we had an Apple Mac.

No idea, but I know it had Windows 95. And mine came with Hover: capture the flags, play bumper cars with the enemy hover cars, and the same three levels over and over again. I loved it.


http://www.hovergame.com/Hoverlevel1.jpg

http://springfiles.com/sites/default...cing/hover.jpg

Oh my god Hover. I haven't seen that sh*t in YEARS. Thanks for dusting off the old childhood bats.

Apparently Microsoft brought it back as a browser game, although they "updated" the graphics, and let you choose different cars. If you type "bambi" at the main screen though it'll let you play level 1 of the retro game. Why they didn't just give you the old game in the first place is beyond me.

Hover!

i386 SX 20MHz Magnavox PC - perhaps the only Magnavox computer ever sold. Purchased at the short-lived Computer City big box store.

Fondest memories:

- Summers spent fiddling in QBASIC tweaking NIBBLES.BAS and GORILLA.BAS,
- MAPEDITing WOLF3D
- Playing with sound modules in MFED
- The Commander Keen series
- and SoundBlaster's Talking Parrot and Dr SBAITSO.

Already won the 2015 Dweeb Nerd of the year award.

Dude, you're amazing.

I'm going to raise the Dweeb Nerd bar... yesterday evening's cataloging project is now complete. My sig below includes a searchable index of nearly 113,000 tracks in my vinyl, CD, and digital libraries.

FILE UNDER: Needs to get out of the house more often. (I really shouldn't be proud of this.)

This is almost exactly what my first computer looked like:

http://www.svas.com/computers/Gateway_400c.jpg

Look at me now, duel screen 27 in flatscreen LG monitors with 2 terabytes of hard drive space. I've grown.

same. Windows 98, dial-up service, beta MSN, etc.

fond memories, but not-so-fond memories because now I want to throw something if a thing takes more than 10 seconds to load on my mobile phone.

how the mighty have fallen :laughing:

I still can't believe my internet connects all by itself. With no Merzbow playing in the background.

I can't believe that my computer completely starts up in less than 10 seconds. I used to have to wait a few minutes for that to happen.

my old computer (Windows XP still installed) is chilling at my parents' house.

... it used to take 15 minutes to boot up.

Can't remember the exact model, but it was a Gateway 2000 with Windows 95 similar to this:

http://www.gamingnexus.com/Screenshots/Article/1/1.jpg

Yes! I used to play this game the whole time. It was a simple game but it was so much fun. Ah, the memories.

I was just playing it a few minutes ago, and I'd forgotten how maddening the physics engine is. Just watching yourself sail impotently past a flag only inches away is the ultimate slap in the face.

I grew up with a Compaq running Windows 95. I was way too young to remember any specs this far down the line. Now I'm in the process of putting together my own desktop rig for the first time (I'm a little late to the computer-building scene, but whatever).

I got my first computer fairly late, i was like 26 and it was a sh*tty hand me down PC from my cousin that was outdated as hell.

i couldn't use it for anything except playing old emulators on it.
i mainly used it to familiarize myself with computers but eventually the thing got so many viruses it became completely useless and that's how i learned the value of an anti virus program :p:

You'd think that if we can put a man on the moon, we can eliminate the computer virus. Genocide in Rwanda is not as grave a threat to the moral fabric of humanity as porn viruses.

I feel weird being the youngest person on this site, yet having never owned a computer.

So where do you post from? The library? Loser.

I know you've separated yourself from the library crowd and all now, so was it just so you could say something like that? lol.

Its even sadder, I didn't even get them from porn, as much as i tried the update the programs it still ran like sh*t so i couldn't watch porn it or stream practically anything on it.

i honestly don't know where i got the viruses from but i sure learned the hassle they can bring.

Whether or not there is a causation between watching internet porn and all the times I've gotten viruses, there has certainly always been a correlation.

My mom bought me a computer when I was 12 and the thing bricked after a month because it was the first time in my life that I had a computer of my own with wireless and and a broadband connection.

It never stood a chance.

Ofc there is, and the kinkier the porn is, the worst the virus is.

Have you ever been to a site you just KNOW you're gonna get a virus from? you can just feel something is shady and not right before you get it. :p:

And you still go in? Yes. Luckily my Chromebook is basically virus-proof. It might not be able to do much beyond web browsing, but I can look at all the ****ed up **** that I want.

http://trs-80.com/covers/cat-rs-fc174a(1984).jpg

Tandy 1000

So does anybody still have a computer with a floppy disk drive? (The smaller, hard disks, not the floppy floppy disks.) It was only recently that I realized that newer computers didn't have them, and I honestly have no idea when they stopped becoming standard.

The 3 1/2" floppy disk? I haven't seen one of those things in at least 10 years.

It's called a cell phone. Cutting edge technology.

OMG I loved that game! I had a windows 95 as well as my first computer. Here was my second:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...psaa43737c.jpg

The last time I used a computer with a floppy disk drive was about 8 years ago. The last time I actually used a floppy disk was long before that. It also had a zip drive, remember them?

Two terabytes??? Two! Pshaw! I have sixteen, and I still haven't enough space! :laughing:
And that you don't have to remember to log off, as I frequently forgot to at night and only realised when I was at work the next day that I was still online and being charged by the hour!! Or that you don't have to call down and say "does anyone want to use the phone? I'm going on the internet to do something, but whatever it is, it is expressly not related to looking up porn!" And then get cut off when some ****er forgets you're on the modem!!!
Ah Gateway! The cow computer! :)

What is wrong with you? I swear, the youth of today...
A-hem!!
My current computer doesn't but the one prior to that, about ten years old, does. I still have boxes of them. Remember Norton Backup? "Backup your whole PC onto thirty handy floppy discs!" :rolleyes:
Jesus! It looks just like a pretty woman! I want one of those!

In 2012 I was working in office supply retail hell and had customers ask for floppies, AOL trial CDs, Zip disks (by which they meant flash drives), and Office 97.

SPECIFICALLY ASKED for Office 97.

We also had people come in every week buying 100-packs of DVD-Rs. They burned movie-of-the-week cam-rips by the hundreds and pushed them on people in our parking lot for $5 each.

God I loved that job.

Lovely dress babe. I also had the same Chicago poster, lol.