Comments on: Newly Digital

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 08 Jun 2003 17:11:17 +0000

A Commodore VIC20 with it's massive 4K RAM. I bought RAM expansion cartridges and chained them together and got 84K so I could run all of those buggy programs you had to type in from Compute! magazine. I think over the years I got 1/2 of them to work!The 22 column display left little to be desired too.

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Anonymous — Fri, 06 Jun 2003 19:35:11 +0000

1984 Apple Macintosh 128k. We put in a full megabyte of memory (!), added a 2nd external floppy drive and later added a 20 meg hard drive (which sounded like a Fokker Triplane taking off). Lode Runner kicked ass.

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Anonymous — Tue, 03 Jun 2003 01:59:59 +0000

Oregon Trail Rocked!

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Anonymous — Mon, 02 Jun 2003 20:31:24 +0000

I remember using the Apple][e trying to figure out that damn turtle program where you could draw things with the little triangle. But, I also had a TI 99-4A at home that played cartridge games and programmed in TI-BASIC. We still had it working until my mom GAVE IT AWAY last year. Why mom?

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Anonymous — Mon, 02 Jun 2003 01:44:26 +0000

Chris,
The Altoona Public Library in Altoona, PA? I was born in Altoona. Don't know too many people who hail from there…later…it-geek

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Anonymous — Sun, 01 Jun 2003 23:30:04 +0000

I was late in the game with the computer trend. My first computer was an IBM 486 and I bought as a fist purchase on my American Express card. Members did have its priviledges when I had to return it because 5 months later the first Pentiums came out and I had to upgrade. They werent as stupid when I made the same attempt with the Pentium II upgrade…

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Anonymous — Sun, 01 Jun 2003 22:17:35 +0000

486sx 4mb ram 128mb hd 2x cdrom 3.5floppy 512k video 8k l2 cache….i remember when i put in my 8xcdrom and that dx4 upgrade chip. my comp went so fast at the time i had to clock it down to play wing commander I…

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Anonymous — Sun, 01 Jun 2003 21:39:49 +0000

My first computer was an apple IIgs with no hard drive. I got that at about the age of 5 or 6. played games and typed stuff on it (carmen san diego, karatika etc.) Then I upgraded to a Macintosh centris 650 with a 25mhz 68040 proc and 8mb ram 230mb hd. I could believe when I saw a crisp sharp color picture on that thing. Then moved onto a Power Computing mac color circa 1997 with a 225mhz 604e processor. The thing was crazy fast when i got it but now seems lagging behind, but i still enjoy using it every day. Its all about the mac!

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Anonymous — Sun, 01 Jun 2003 20:40:50 +0000

First HOME computer was a Commodore Vic-20. Though I had used an old Commodore PET.
My first actual EXPERIENCE on a computer was at school on an Apple II.
After the Vic20, we moved up to a C64, on which I cut my machine language coding skills; then an IBM 8088 with an astonishingly clear Hercules monochrome monitor and 80M hard drive.

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Anonymous — Sun, 01 Jun 2003 18:00:45 +0000

The first computer I owned was a Timex Sinclair 1000. Eventually I purchased a 16K RAM expander for $50 and a thermal printer.
I also wired an old typewriter keyboard to the Sinclair with the help of my uncle.
I really did HATE backing up to tape cassette.

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Anonymous — Sun, 01 Jun 2003 15:24:47 +0000

My first computer was a Texas Instrument 99 then 486 then a 586 then a pentium system and also an apple. When i was in school I used Apple IIs, tandys and 486. Now i have 4 desktop pcs, laptop, an older mac, and a 486. I love playing oregon trail and the other cool games on the mac in school.

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Anonymous — Sun, 01 Jun 2003 13:26:37 +0000

Back in 1972 my first Personal Computer was a KAYPRO II with CPM as the operating sytem (yes) I am old! I also own a Texas Instrument 99. For work mainly use mainframe Vax, PDP-11s etc.
Now I purchase a new computer about every 6 months. Never own an Apple and probably never will, don't want to start an Apple vs PC war just stating a fact.

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Anonymous — Sun, 01 Jun 2003 12:50:43 +0000

Altoona, huh? Well, that explains a great deal! :)
One of my first computer experiences was APL on a box at the College of William & Mary. We had to wear these short britches and codpieces and, ah, nevermind…

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Anonymous — Sun, 01 Jun 2003 12:20:33 +0000

First computer: Commodore PET in grade 5, playing ASCII pacman and learning BASIC.
First real home computer: C64 with a 1541 disk drive,a 300 bps (how far we've come) VicModem, and a dot matrix printer.

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Anonymous — Sun, 01 Jun 2003 09:07:11 +0000

First computer that was more a gameing machine was my C64. First “IBM” clone was a 386 sx25 with 40gig drive, 2 meg ram, 64 k of video memory, 2400 bps modem. Ahhhh those dirty pics off the bbs's flowed like h2o.