Remember Your First Computer

[Alucard1475]

My first was a case-computer where you could have taken it wherever you wanted. It was quite heavy and the keyboard was attached to it.

Then it broke, actually I broke it. :P I tried to fix some errors on the screen(computer technican at 14 :P ), without actually knowing what I was doing. :huh:
The screen was moveable up and down, so to hold the screen, I placed a glass full of water on the keyboard(how smart don't you think), I have no idea why I did it. To see any changes, I left the pc on while I was fixing the screen. I pushed some wires into the pc screen(how smart again :rolleyes: ) to somehow fix it.

The glass eventually fell over and the water, well, into the keyboard. Smoke was coming out of the computer and eventually filled up my room. :(
Then my dad came running into the room. He first tried to do something about the computer and then to kill me. I ran into the bathroom and stayed there for 2 hours untill the situation has calmed down. I still got beaten up and the computer landed into the rubbish bin.
Damn, if I had been alone, I could have burned down the whole house including myself. :blink:

Maybe I didn't wanted to do anything about the smoke 'cause I liked fire as hell.

That's the story of my first computer. Sadly we just had it for a month...

[Adster]

hmm mine wa a C64 13 years ago now

[vivitron 15]

I had a 56K Spectrum, but that was terrible, the "function" button broke, and we could do nothing with it (you needed it to run the tapes)

then we got a 386 SX 25Hz...wow that was a PC....does anyone remember Prince of Persia game? man thems was the good old days! :)

[chalice]

Mine was a Commodore Vic 20 which I swapped for a Spectrum 48k.
That was about 20 years ago.
And I'm still only 29. Ah, this thread takes me right back.

[Alucard1475]

vivitron 15 Posted on 17 July 2003 - 18:21
  I had a 56K Spectrum, but that was terrible, the "function" button broke, and we could do nothing with it (you needed it to run the tapes)

then we got a 386 SX 25Hz...wow that was a PC....does anyone remember Prince of Persia game? man thems was the good old days!  :) 


Oh yeah, Prince of Persia... wondering if I still can find it somewhere as a rom. I'll check it out. Nice reminder.... :)

[Proper Bo]

My first comp was a spectrum 28k, but my first actual PC which was my own, I'm using to type this

[thewizeard]

Mijn was a Philips MSX.

[spark2002]

My very first was a spectrum 16k with the rubber keys,i think i only had one game ,caterpillars.Then i had one of those tv game things,which u could play squash,tennis,and football just bouncing a small square dot back and forth.But my first pc was a 486,cpu 25 or 33hz.

[MediaSlayer]

hmm mine wa a C64 13 years ago now
I had a commodore too. Fav games? Bruce Lee(it was so f*cking funny), Ultima III, Parallax, Bard's Tale, Goonies, and Spy Hunter. I can't remember cuz there were so many. :huh:

[yami_bart]

I had a weird crappy thingy... with 30 hz etc. I always played Keen Dreams on that one! That really rocked! :lol:

[uNz[i]]

The first computer I got access to was at the local defence research division of the Airforce through a computer club at my highschool... it was during the late '70's. We had to program it with punchcards.. It took ages to do the simplest things and we had to wait 2 weeks to get the results... which were just ascii text on reams of perforated print-out sheets.


Originally posted by Alucard1475@17 July 2003 - 17:56

vivitron 15 Posted on 17 July 2003 - 18:21
I had a 56K Spectrum, but that was terrible, the "function" button broke, and we could do nothing with it (you needed it to run the tapes)

then we got a 386 SX 25Hz...wow that was a PC....does anyone remember Prince of Persia game? man thems was the good old days! :)


Oh yeah, Prince of Persia... wondering if I still can find it somewhere as a rom. I'll check it out. Nice reminder.... :)
Well here you go.. just do a search for 'Prince of Persia' at Free Oldies.
It's an abandonware search site, so I don't think it breaks the board rules to post it here...
http://www.freeoldies.com/gfx/freeoldiesus.gif (http://www.freeoldies.com/)
They have P.o.P there - 2 versions of the original and P.o.P 2 as well.
Enjoy your trip down memory lane guys.

(Edit: Nostalgia and typos)

[vivitron 15]

Im there now! :) :D

edit to add: and i just found paperboy there too!! I remember.....




im gonna be gone a few days while i trip doon memory lane :)

[mutterings]

ZX81...
1k ram
8k rom
First home pc to come out under £100..You spent hrs on the thing typing in code to make ball bounce across the screen then when you hit enter you would always get an error of some description...Very similar to windows me actually :lol:
http://www.honneamise.u-net.com/zx81/zx81main.gif

[MetroStars]

God dam Prince of Persia was gr8... buy my first computer was of my Uncle, don't know what it was called but it had the Monitor which Weighed at least 600 pounds.. and it only had 2 Colors Green & Black..

[Lamsey]

Mine was a Commodore 64, which i still have and which still works. I do the odd bit of programming on it and play Tetris from time to time (the orginal Tetris that is - the first one ever - the real deal! :P ).

[WeeMouse]

I think this is my first computer...........my sister had a commodore but it was hers not mine...so yeah! This is my first computer!

I got it when i was 15....ask Lamsey for all the technical fiddly details cos all i know is that it has windows XP and can make CDs! :D

[Lamsey]

Originally posted by WeeMouse@17 July 2003 - 12:54
all the technical fiddly details
It's a worthless pile of crap. Sorry, but it's the truth.

[Adster]

I think this is my first computer...........my sister had a commodore but it was hers not mine...so yeah! This is my first computer!

I got it when i was 15....ask Lamsey for all the technical fiddly details cos all i know is that it has windows XP and can make CDs! 

and what sort of computer is it?? :lol:

btw weemouse you are scaring me still with that 666 :devil: I can't look anymore

[WeeMouse]

Originally posted by hogster@17 July 2003 - 12:58

I think this is my first computer...........my sister had a commodore but it was hers not mine...so yeah! This is my first computer!

I got it when i was 15....ask Lamsey for all the technical fiddly details cos all i know is that it has windows XP and can make CDs!

and what sort of computer is it?? :lol:

btw weemouse you are scaring me still with that 666 :devil: I can't look anymore
Hehehe i am an evil mouse!!! :P

Lamsey it's not that worthless....it lets me and bigMouse play Age of Empires, so it's ok in our books! :)

[lynx]

Would have posted earlier, but I was off playing P-o-P.

Mine was a 386-16MHz, but I had all the comps I needed at work before that.

[4play]

my first computer was a spectrum 128k damn those tapes.
why after watching that horrible load screen for 30 mins for a simple game to load did it keep coming up with load errors.
still i learned basic programming on it so not all bad.

my first real pc was a 386 16mhz machine. i had to fork out £80 for another 2megs of ram so win 3.11 would work. :lol:

still wolfenstein 3d, doom, prince of persia and all my soccer manager games used to keep me entertained for hours.

[ezyryder]

Ahhh, The BBC :) It brings me back, i remember a game where you'd read just text and have to imagine where you were. These were the days of hi-end graphics I tell you! The first computer I really really played to death was the spectrum then I got an Amiga Commodor 1200, it was the most powerful out at the time and all my friends would come and play it. (most commonly monkey island or lemmings)

[lynx]

@Lamsey.... Is that one you've been playing about with till you got it right ?

The computer I mean, not Weemouse. ;)

edit: typo

[Lamsey]

Originally posted by lynx@17 July 2003 - 13:13
@Lamsey.... Is that one you've been playing about with till you got it right ?

The computer I mean, not Weemouse. ;)

edit: typo
No, that's my own, decent computer.

WeeMouse's really is crap - it's a battle just keeping ti working at all!!!

specs:
VIA Cyrix II 800MHz
Some crappy Gigabyte micro-atx mobo (can't remember the type just now)
128MB PC100 SDRAM
ATA33, 40GB HD
Integrated Intel Graphics
Integrated Intel Sound
Minging bubbly case with 250 watt PSU and no room for expansion
4x CDRW/DVD combo drive with no buffer underrun protection
Epson Stylus C20 SX (now broken)

It also came bundled with Windows ME (I quickly sorted that!).


It's a complete nightmare - really unstable.

[Adster]

ive seen worse

my old 386 with 28k moden
9meg of ram
cant rememerb the rest its that damm old!!

windows 3.1

[RPerry]

My first computer was a TRS-80, then I had an Atari 5600, then a Commodore 64
:P

[BigMouse]

The first comp I remember getting was a BBC in school they got new ones and gave me the old one! :D

I kept it for about a month and got rid of it because it kept crashing. :lol:

[BigMouse]

QUOTE (hogster @ 17 July 2003 - 12:58)
QUOTE 
I think this is my first computer...........my sister had a commodore but it was hers not mine...so yeah! This is my first computer!

I got it when i was 15....ask Lamsey for all the technical fiddly details cos all i know is that it has windows XP and can make CDs! 



and what sort of computer is it?? 

btw weemouse you are scaring me still with that 666  I can't look anymore 


Hehehe i am an evil mouse!!! 

Lamsey it's not that worthless....it lets me and bigMouse play Age of Empires, so it's ok in our books! 

Age of Empires is the best game ever, I'm totally hooked on it!

By the rway WM I'll be down later to play it! :lol:

[jaszolty]

My first ever cpu was a Commodore Amiga 500
That was a legend B)
I still have it at this time
Talkin about it makes me wanna get it out and play on it
I had around 250 disks for it
amazing
:rolleyes:
:)

[Skweeky]

Mine was a Tandy. With the HD IN the keyboard lol. It worked on some weird operating system that wasn't quite DOS, neither Windows. It's broken now though. Tandy quit making computers two years after I got it.

[Bender]

Originally posted by Skweeky@17 July 2003 - 15:04
Tandy quit making computers two years after I got it.
What a coincidence. :lol:




My first one was a Vic 20 too, with tape recorder.
After that a 486 with a 400mb (wow!) HD and Win 3.14.
The 486 is canibalized now to have a back up HD for Skweeky's computer when reinstalling. :D




For old games: have a look at Home of the Underdogs (http://old.the-underdogs.org/), very nice site, I believe Prince of Persia is there too.

[MetroStars]

wow 400 mb... That was amzing 2 have back in the day...

[stonecold1203]

I got my first computer when i was 10.

I am 15 now and i have had 3 computers.


The first computer was so shitty i got bumped off the internet every 20 minutes.

And it was super slow.






Now i have a 8Mb cable connection :P

[lynx]

Originally posted by Lamsey@17 July 2003 - 13:28
It's a complete nightmare - really unstable.
Oh, so you WERE talking about Weemouse.

[crazy_billy_bats]

first pc was a P166 cyrex (think thats how u called them) chip - the companys obsolete now i think. with a 1.2 gig hard drive.

first games console was a trusty SNES - genius :D

[MetroStars]

God dam billy..

[crazy_billy_bats]

Originally posted by MetroStars@17 July 2003 - 16:55
God dam billy..
hey u mathis watch it or ill go to work on that sexy footballers ass !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Spindulik]

Originally posted by Skweeky@17 July 2003 - 06:04
Mine was a Tandy. With the HD IN the keyboard  lol. It worked on some weird operating system that wasn't quite DOS, neither Windows. It's broken now though. Tandy quit making computers two years after I got it.
My first PC was a floor model TANDY Sensation II. 486CPU (no mmx) at at whopping speed of 60mHz (intel processor), a 2X CDROM, 210MB hard drive, 8MB RAM, 2,400k modem and a floppy drive. I paid $900.00 for it. VGA monitor and built-in mono speaker in the desktop unit (towers didn't exist then). Stereo speakers were extra. Windows 3.0 installed. Playing games like Wolfenstien was a true amazement then.



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