Chiricahua Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 (edited) If memory serves way back when KMart had them for sale, and I was salivating to buy one. I didn't. My first PC was a Radio Shack (Tandy) XT clone. From there to an AT&T AT clone, and on and on from there. It's still hard to believe AT&T was once in the computer business. I once knew how to use DOS, but now it's long forgotten. I think the hard disk space for the AT clone was 20 megabyte. Edited January 10, 2012 by Chiricahua Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KelricAlpha Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 I spent countless hours somewhere around 11 years old, inputing the code that was in the back of the hand book so that when you run it, a bitmap looking balloon would continuously travel across the page. Wrote my first high school term paper on one and printed it out on a track paper dot matrix printer. Does that qualify as old enough? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doki Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 If memory serves way back when KMart had them for sale, and I was salivating to buy one. I didn't. My first PC was a Radio Shack (Tandy) XT clone. From there to an AT&T AT clone, and on and on from there. It's still hard to believe AT&T was once in the computer business. I once knew how to use DOS, but now it's long forgotten. I think the hard disk space for the AT clone was 20 megabyte. My first? Commodore Vic 20, aka the precursor to the Commodore 64. AWWWW YEA! (Still have it too) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xguild Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 Guilty! Although I didn't really call it my Commodore 64 back than, it was lovingly refered to as The Bards Tale Player. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utorian Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 I loved my old C64. spent hours nagging my mum to hook it up to the tele, then further hours waiting for the game to load, but man it was soooo worth it. Still have it all boxed up with all games sat up in my loft. Keep meaning to drag it out and give it a go again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iskareot Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 Yep... BUT LETS NOT FORGET THE Ti99....lol... I did love it, I actually had pirated so many of the games onto a ROM -- you could do that actually - copy them. Ahh the good ole days.... good times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twistedfingers Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 Yup..pipemania anyone? Then i got my beloved Amiga.. Speedball 2...cadaver...sensible soccer..eye of the beholder..shadow of the beast.. dribble dribble. oh..and rainbow islands..lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qoojo Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 I owned C64, then upgraded to the C128. Years earlier I wanted the TSR80, but could not aford it. So I had to settle playing with my uncle's. I played my first computer game on it, a simple version of Star Trek in late 70s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GriggsC Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 had a C64 and 128, remember the good old Q-link with the 300baud modem. I don't know if any of you know this but C64 s trying to make a comeback. http://www.commodoreusa.net/CUSA_Home.aspx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meldwyn Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 Apple IIc for me (first computer - Sophomore in college). Data disk, program disk. Oh the nostalgia of it all... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xhaiquan Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 Vic 20 FTW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anzel Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 Guilty! Although I didn't really call it my Commodore 64 back than, it was lovingly refered to as The Bards Tale Player. Mine was the Elite Player. Although I loved Bards Tale as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chadsford Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 I had one of those as a kid! The only actual game I had for it was Q-bert. The rest of the games I played on it were in a booklet that came with the machine that you had to type in all the lines of code every time you wanted to play them, until we got a cassette tape drive to store the programs on. Maybe modern games should come like that. Then people would see how many lines of code go into something like that and maybe they would be more appreciative and not so demanding of all the features they want... or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lordgracy Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 Yes! I remember our parents got my brother and I one for christmas because I begged and begged and begged! BEST CHRISTMAS EVA! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baracca Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 (edited) TRS80 lol - aka trash 80 My uncle gave me his VIC 20 when he upgraded to a C64. I remember he had all these magazines "Compute Gazette" lying around. I would use those to code my crappy games then. I eventually got my C64 and 1541 disk drive lol. Music Construction Set and Koala Painter was my first 2 programs. I really miss Mail Order Monsters. No idea why EA won't remake this for xbox 360. PVP matches with your own monster would be sweet. Edited January 10, 2012 by Baracca Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rayaleith Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 C64 here and then Amstrad 6128 with the superb locomotive basic! And then Amiga 500... I feel lucky I lived these times and watched the progress Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dasri Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 Load *.*,8,1 I loved both my Vic 20 and C64 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baracca Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 (edited) Sys64738 Edited January 10, 2012 by Baracca Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theidan Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 Playing SWTOR is like playing the commodore, waiting to load the tapes, must be what SWTOR is run on the backend Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captainmerkin Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 I started of with a bbc micro b then a zx spectrum c64 finally an amiga before going onto a sega mastersystem 2 and then megadrive -> atari jaguar -> Playstation -> ps2 -> wii <- xbox360 after getting refund on wii -> no console now. My first pc was a custom build I did myself learning the hardway about 12 years ago, then got a dell xps powerful machine and just built my latest best a few weeks ago. was just talking about c64 with a colleague at work a few mins ago and how much syndicate's awesomeness lives on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heraclea Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 If 300 baud was good enough for George Washington..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monjiay Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 Yes, I owned a C64 back when Infocom ruled the World! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ferroz Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 My first? Commodore Vic 20, aka the precursor to the Commodore 64. AWWWW YEA! (Still have it too)likewise, though I don't have mine anymore (I actually went through 2, with them getting fried in thunderstorms) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yotes Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 My first? Commodore Vic 20, aka the precursor to the Commodore 64. AWWWW YEA! (Still have it too) Yup. The VIC 20 was my first computer too. My grandmother actually bought it for us. We had tons of fun with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bawheidbob Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 CPC 464 Myself - Real Power Gaming Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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