Memories

[angelcat]

What was your earliest memory of playing with a computer, and what kind was it?

I was 8 years old, with a Commador 64, the ones that hooked up to your tv set. I spent a couple of hours typing in half a page full of code, just to play a simple game.....................

[vass0922]

TI99-4A
POS lol
fairly useless couldnt' do much not many games...

Then we got the SWEEEEET Commodore 64 man that was good stuff lol
Had cool games, I remember going to a small store down in south bend, IN ... we'd drive all teh way there cause they always a had a good selection
I remember reading line for line out of the book for coding as well
just to watch a ball bounce back and forth across the screen... that was awesome stuff... then you start changing things to make it bounce different or faster

[ClubMed]

Originally posted by angelcat
What was your earliest memory of playing with a computer, and what kind was it?

I was 8 years old, with a Commador 64, the ones that hooked up to your tv set. I spent a couple of hours typing in half a page full of code, just to play a simple game.....................

Same here . But I can't remember how old I was.

[TheBurningCat]

IT was a P100 and i played need for speed for hours, one of my best christmas's(1995) well until i got my pII 733 ''

[Dudster]

Pong

My first real computer was either a Commodore Vic 20 (Apple Panic and a Space Invaders type game) or a Spectrum, I can't remember now, I was about 6-7 years old

I recall getting a Texas Instruments programmable calculator when I started uni. May not seem like much now, but this was before many PC's had come out, and state-of-the-art at the time. I was the envy of my maths tute.

My first real PC was an Amstrad - no HDD, just twin 5.25 floppies. Real heavy thing. Had some good games though.

[Mike]

I remember using the Atari ST, playing the Wrath of Nikademus (or whatever. )

[Warthog]

I played some DOS game on my dad's computer in the late 80's.....it was in a castle...think it was called Castle

Next computer, win3.1...played A-10 Tank Killer - not kidding, that was what started me on that plane

[howste]

When I was a kid, I'd go with my dad to his work at the university and play text-based "Hamurabi" on the mainframe that filled most of a building. I also remember him running a stack of punch cards through to print a calendar with a Snoopy picture on it created with various printed characters.

In high school I had a programming class which started with programming HP calculators and punch cards. Halfway through the class the school got Apple II computers and we could actually run our programs real-time! My dad bought a Commodore VIC 20 about then which was our first home computer. I think it had 16kb of memory and saved programs on cassette tapes.

[CERuppel]

Mine was a 386. Can't remember much about the specs, but recall playing several text based games. Had DOS for operating system, and a 'mean green' CRT...

But the ex trashed that one...

I miss it...