How far??

[Neka79]

wow... i love this old school talk...

my 1st pc was a HP sumthin or rather.. bought it off my old work, and had it for abt 7 years..
it had windows 98 (how ancient!!) and a 4GB HDD...
it was 32mb of ram i think.. and was a intel celeron!!

wow.. how things have changed!!

[Benno]

My first foray into computers, and gaming was a Commodore Vic 20. Now that was awesome! I remember load runner being my favourite game. From there I went to the old 286, which had Street Rods, and Testdrive. God I loved those games. Since then I've had a variety of PC's, most of which I still have, and still work!

Building myself a AMD Quad Core atm. Should be fun once finished I love MSY!

[Stereo]

Computers I have owned:

1. Spectrum ZX-81 (with the membrane touchpad and later bought the 16kilobyte RAM expansion)
2. Commodore Vic20
3. Commodore C64
4. Commodore Amiga 512
5. 486 DX 100
6. Pentium Celeron A300 (overclocked to more than twice its origional speed)
7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15 all Pentium Celeron up to Duo Core P4s (also some AMD's in there)...

I miss my Amiga..... best games ever

[Slow and wobbly]

Boulder Dash on the 64 was more than cool!
Wolvenstein on the 486 was "Ace!"

As for space command on the Vectrex - well.....

[photomike666]

If ya talking games, I can't believe how many hours were wasted playing Pakman on the Atari - squeaky joy sticks an all.

[Strika]

wow... i love this old school talk...

my 1st pc was a HP sumthin or rather.. bought it off my old work, and had it for abt 7 years..
it had windows 98 (how ancient!!) and a 4GB HDD...
it was 32mb of ram i think.. and was a intel celeron!!

wow.. how things have changed!!

Mate, you need to spend another 20 years walking the planet before ny of your shit is "Old School"!!!

I never had a computer, as I was almost out of high school before Apple had released a semi desktop unit which started appearing in schools (I did have one introductory class, where they taught us a simple BASIC language loop which wrote our names repeatedly over the monitor!! Wow!!). But the parents were a bit poor at the time and a computer was seen as a gimmicky luxury, not an educational and life neccesity! My youngest brother who is now 28 was the first of our siblings to have a computer at home. I am pretty sure it was an Amstrad? I could be wrong, but it was a massive thing whatever it was and it ran on tapes like audio cassette tapes. Graphics were very basic and although I never spent any time on it I think it had Pong or a tennis game of some sort on it. It was a black and white monitor. It had basic word processing abilities and not a lot else! I reckoned it was just a digital typewriter!!!

[Neka79]

wow... i love this old school talk...

my 1st pc was a HP sumthin or rather.. bought it off my old work, and had it for abt 7 years..
it had windows 98 (how ancient!!) and a 4GB HDD...
it was 32mb of ram i think.. and was a intel celeron!!

wow.. how things have changed!!

Mate, you need to spend another 20 years walking the planet before ny of your shit is "Old School"!!!

I never had a computer, as I was almost out of high school before Apple had released a semi desktop unit which started appearing in schools (I did have one introductory class, where they taught us a simple BASIC language loop which wrote our names repeatedly over the monitor!! Wow!!). But the parents were a bit poor at the time and a computer was seen as a gimmicky luxury, not an educational and life neccesity! My youngest brother who is now 28 was the first of our siblings to have a computer at home. I am pretty sure it was an Amstrad? I could be wrong, but it was a massive thing whatever it was and it ran on tapes like audio cassette tapes. Graphics were very basic and although I never spent any time on it I think it had Pong or a tennis game of some sort on it. It was a black and white monitor. It had basic word processing abilities and not a lot else! I reckoned it was just a digital typewriter!!!

hahahaha

i was waiting for sum1 to bite.....lol

actually we were too pov to ever have a pc at home (i did have a 50cc bike, then a 80cc bike tho ... priorities) ...as we lived on farms, they were less use than other toys ...

that pc i talked abt i bought wen i started work at Betta Electrical... i reckon it was in 2000 or so.... so i wasnt a computer nerd at all...

[mike-s]

i was biting my lip while i read your post Neka. Yours would have been a dream machine for the first five years i ever owned a pc

[Neka79]

i was biting my lip while i read your post Neka. Yours would have been a dream machine for the first five years i ever owned a pc

im currently on my 2nd pc.. after the HP got thrown off the 2 storey balcony with the shits....

this ones ok i guess (maybe 2 yrs old now??) .. goes ok...

[sneakypete]

i still have PONG...

still works too...

[Gosling1]

I started on a TRS-80 Tandy computer at school in 1978 - Year 11. Our class was the very first class that ever had 'Computing' as a subject....... makes me feel really fuckin' old !

We learnt BASIC, and could programme the shop computer at our local Tandy store with a really short'n'tricky programme - it would leave the screen blank as we walked out the door to catch the bus, but whoever pressed any key on the keyboard next, would be greeted with a scrolling message in Bold and a big font, that simply said "Tandy are a pack of wankers"...........scrolling down the entire length of the screen......from memory it was about a 10-line programme that took about 2 minutes to type in......

At school, I clearly remember loading programmes onto the computer off a cassette tape, with all the associated 'beeps' and 'blips' noises it made, as it took 10 minutes to load up 8k worth of programme !!!

Before this, I was playing a really early version of 'Lunar Lander', on some sort of home-computer thing, at a mates house across the road from mum's place. I think this was about 1976 or 77 ?? No idea what the name of the systme was, it was incredibly slow, and we would spend all day watching a tiny 'rocket' descend onto a very flat 'moon' surface, hopefully at under 1m/s ......so much time spent doing this.......

Much like Smitty, I learnt the computer languages of PASCAL and COBOL in university during 1980, what a crock of shit they were. I still have one of the PASCAL programming books in the library......" An Introduction to Programming and Problem Solving with PASCAL..." Schneider Weingart Perlman. I bet that title will rattle a few old memory banks out there !!

We also had a Microbee 16? at home in about 1979 or 80........I didn't use this much as far as I can recall.....

[swabio-ACT]

Hmmm I have had.....

Atari 2600
Atari 7800
Commodore 64
Commodore Amiga 500

Then moved onto whoring myself to the IBM clone world....

386 SX25 ( i think) 512kb RAM 10 MB HDD (i forget the full details!)
80486 DX 66

80486 DX4/100

then onto the Pentiums.....

Pentium 100

Pentium II 350

Pentium III 650

Pentium III 800

PIV 1.8 Ghz

PIV 2.4 GHz (now wifes PC) 2GB DDR RAM, 128 MB 6600GT vid card, HDTV tuner, 2x80 GB SATA HDD (RAID 0) + 2x 180GB SATA HDD (RAID0), Wireless-N PCI card..WinXP Pro SP2

PIV 3.8 GHz - with a range of bits and pieces over its time...... currently still in service with the following bits.....

2 GB DDR2 Corsair Ram (dual channel mode)
ASUS P5B Deluxe WiFi edition Mobo
2x 80 GB (SATA) Seagate barracuda's in RAID 0
2x 120 GB (SATA) Seagate barracuda's also in RAID0
Dvico HDTV DVB-T Terrestrial HD TV
256MB GeForce 7900GS vid card.....
Antec P180 case
Antec 480W true blue PSU....
WinXP Pro SP2

Core2Duo (Laptop - Current!)
ASUS A8JS.... standard + 2GB extra RAM, Vista HP

Currently I have it all networked on wireless N with a Linksys ADSL2+ modem (only operating on 8Mbit ADSL1) connected to the Belkin N1 Vision router....... except the PS3 which only has G
I have 1 500GB + 1 320Gb external drives shared on the network.....so all up I have 1.86TB of storage.... although this will all change soon, when I build my new HTPC...... which should really pump...... so I can play games on my new...40" Samsung LCD TV....

I envisage.... probably the Antec Fusion Case... ASUS p5e-V mobo, Vista HP (or ultimate), min 1.5 TB of HDD in Raid0.... 3 or 4 GB RAM, 8800 GT vid card, Wireless N networking, a decent DVB-T card....and god knows what else yet.....

[ozx6r]

hmmm we have had the
tsr,comm 64 then every pc from 8086 up to current models some with the 087 math coprocessor upgrages to get that extra grunt

one of my best memories playing games was leasuire suit larry on a xt laptop in school library with beautiful cga graphics

[mike-s]

btw i have an advanced cobol programming book floating about, anyone want it? i should really clear some of my *ahem* crap out