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**Skippy**

LoP Guest Wrote:

Zork came later, by the way.

The first text adventure was just called "Adventure" I believe.

"You are standing by a grate."

Lift grate

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 58132 12-15-2011 06:56 AM

Commodore 64 with tape memory only, monitor was a TV set.

Next I built a 286-12 system.

Then built a 486 after that.

Computers take up a huge amount of TIME - ever notice that?

**Dr. Woo** · **Dr. Woo** User ID: 53145 12-15-2011 07:04 AM **Posts: 6,076**

Toshiba laptop with a pentium 90 cpu and a 1 gig hard drive

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 66046 12-15-2011 07:12 AM

Mine was a Compaq - the biggest piece of shyt since the pet rock, and just as useful

**808hawk** · **808hawk** ∆ User ID: 15840 12-15-2011 07:24 AM **Posts: 2,399**

A Texas instruments TI-99/4A.

First language TI basic.

Print "hello, world!"
Jhikpghf

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 67590 12-15-2011 07:32 AM

IBM System/370 -168... "Big Iron" as we called it..

Have since then touched just about every flavor of Machine, from Main/Mini, to PC/MAC in one way or another...

Hardware is where it is at, and (though software geeks deny this) software always follows..

Currently running a cheap PC for entertainment value at home...

**DoomIsTardy**

Forbidden Truth Wrote:

Radio Shack - Tandy TRS-80 w/cassette tape drive.

Oh yeah.

^This^
Those were the days.........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6_qff6UplI

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 67441 12-15-2011 07:39 AM

LoP Guest Wrote:

Commodore 64 with tape memory only, monitor was a TV set.

Next I built a 286-12 system.

Then built a 486 after that.

Computers take up a huge amount of TIME - ever notice that?

They used to, yeah. But it was always a labor of love.

Nowadays, it's like my car. It's just too complicated, the "simple" carburetor that I could remove, take apart, clean and put back is replaced with "electronic fuel injection" that you can't do a damn thing with except take it to a guy who charges $100 an hour just for the labor alone...

I know computers are still more workable than modern autos, but I also have become lazier in my old age. It's no longer a labor of love, I just have someone else custom-build my rigs now. Cheer

**Xytx** · **Xytx** Off to Iscandar... User ID: 14754 12-15-2011 07:55 AM **Posts: 568**

An Atari 400. I upgraded to the cassette tape drive later, then added a floppy drive after a few years. Had an Atari 130XE after that, then built my own 8086 beige box PC. (Floppy drive only, no hard drives.)

It was all down hill from there....

**Fox M.**

I believe it was a DNA, biochemistry and molecular biology computer, instead of the traditional silicon-based computer technologies we have today.

Looked something like this...

[Image: FDF5_4EE98BAE.gif]

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 67590 12-15-2011 07:55 AM

LoP Guest Wrote:

LoP Guest Wrote:
Commodore 64 with tape memory only, monitor was a TV set.

Next I built a 286-12 system.

Then built a 486 after that.

Computers take up a huge amount of TIME - ever notice that?

They used to, yeah. But it was always a labor of love.

Nowadays, it's like my car. It's just too complicated, the "simple" carburetor that I could remove, take apart, clean and put back is replaced with "electronic fuel injection" that you can't do a damn thing with except take it to a guy who charges $100 an hour just for the labor alone...

I know computers are still more workable than modern autos, but I also have become lazier in my old age. It's no longer a labor of love, I just have someone else custom-build my rigs now.

Actually I Still build custom gaming rigs, with custom MOD packages, and use nowadays no less then 2 SLI/CrossFire enabled video cards in the systems..

SSD is still too damn expensive for the "common folk".. but I have on occasion been asked to upgrade the first disk with it...

As far as the fuel injection systems, they do use timing sequences to open and close the port injector, longer sequence means more fuel, shorter one means less fuel enters the chamber..

All you ever have to do, is apply your "geekness" to the world of vehicles, and it pretty much becomes transparent within a week of study (you can buy the diagnostic tools fro a lot less then they used to be nowadays, including custom ECU's for the engine, and Smart boxes for the dash)..

**King's Quest** lop guest User ID: 23991 12-15-2011 08:05 AM

LoP Guest Wrote:

1985 i got a IBM PC junior, first computer with a color monitor
no hard disk and 64k ram i upgraded the ram to 512k later.
i learned basic a wrote my own OP this was pre windows. i had to leave a 5.14 floopy with the OP in the drive esle all you would get was an A:

but my dad worked for bell labs back in the 60's thru the 80's so i got to mess around with the mainframe on the weekends when i would go into the labs.
it had a treminal with a printer, no monitor. you typed it printed. i would play this silly star trek game.
i think my new laptop has move horsepower then the building sized mainframe.
wow had not thought about that in years thanks for the memory trip!

Same here, first PC was a PCjr that was handed down to the ex-wife and I from her father. Had the full size keyboard, RAM and parallel port side cards, used the 27 inch console TV we got as a wedding gift as a monitor (still have the TV, only one in my house). Learned to code in BASIC and develop spreedsheets in Lotus 123 on the thing. Also learned how to build a virtual drive in RAM so I could load DOS and then Q-Modem to get online on the 300 baud modem that was built in.

I no longer have the PCjr, but a few years back I found the disks, box and manual for King's Quest 1 that was coded just for the machine.

**AtomIcarus**

TRS-80 Color Computer 2 w/ cassette recorder here. My first modem was 300 baud. I'm also a Zork fan.

**Convicted Criminal**

Aptiva 1994

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uxwU6q0g0M

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 66947 12-15-2011 08:30 AM

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