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demonfurbie

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gorebrush

Not as old as me...

Though I'm 28. (So I must have started really early...

I would dig out some DOS 3.3 screenshot's but couldn't find any

Devilsbane

demonfurbie wrote: »

yep im old

Yes I do. These were back in Elementary School!

nerdydad

You kids and your GUI interfaces, do you remember trying to find the program you wrote on your Commodore by fast fowarding the tape to the counter number you wrote down, only to realize you didn't reset the counter.

Devilsbane wrote: »

Yes I do. These were back in Elementary School!

Webmaster

gorebrush wrote: »

Not as old as me...

Though I'm 28. (So I must have started really early...

And in turn not as old as me.

Next month it'll be exactly 20 years since I got my first PC, which ran Windows 2.x. Not as "pretty" like the attached image because I had Hercules and monochrome monitors.
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nerdydad wrote: »

You kids and your GUI interfaces, do you remember trying to find the program you wrote on your Commodore by fast fowarding the tape to the counter number you wrote down, only to realize you didn't reset the counter.

No, but I do remember the back-then-horrible-and-now-nostalgic squeaky sound of the tape device connected to my Atari and waiting ages only for it to fail most of the time - still regret going for the cheaper tapes.

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gorebrush

I got my first PC 20 years ago too

IBM Model 55 SX/2 - 386 16MHz, 2MB RAM, 60Mb HDD, MCA Graphics Card I think it had...

Those were the days, //shakes fist

alan2308

nerdydad wrote: »

You kids and your GUI interfaces, do you remember trying to find the program you wrote on your Commodore by fast fowarding the tape to the counter number you wrote down, only to realize you didn't reset the counter.

This, except I was an Apple ][ guy. Now hand me my Peek/Poke chart and get off my lawn.

blargoe

undomiel

Sounds like someone needs to watch Wargames again.

rogue2shadow

I couldn't stop laughing at the OPs pic. My first gateway PC did that.

Webmaster

gorebrush wrote: »

I got my first PC 20 years ago too

IBM Model 55 SX/2 - 386 16MHz, 2MB RAM, 60Mb HDD, MCA Graphics Card I think it had...

Those were the days, //shakes fist

You had a 386

Mine was a Tulip AT Compact (surprisingly popular back then despite the corny name) 286, 10MHz with 640KB ram and a 20MB hard disk. There was little "compact" about it. I still got a 5.25" diagnostic floppy needed to configure the CMOS. The oddest thing about it was the main board, which was itself a 16-bit ISA expansion card.

Just being able to get things to run on those minimal specs is pretty much what got me started with "IT" initially. Especially later when I had more memory and used extended/expanded memory/hma and Stacker to push its limits. Those sure were the days.

Hofman Networking - Tulip Museum Just looking at the photos takes me back in time. The only thing that would feel more like time traveling is a video of Dune on a 64 shades of gray monitor where red is rendered as black.

Screenshot from an Atari 800XL (first home computer I had):

tpatt100

I get a "wth??" response when I say I played MMOs like Wow back when mmos did not have graphics

‪Playing a MUD game with MUSHclient‬‏ - YouTube

TheShadow

Multitasking at its finest

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nerdydad

I remember saving up my pennies to buy a copy of Novell DOS 5, which was multitasking, of course I also remember downloading a copy of linux back then and it took almost 2 days with my 2400 baud modem.

TheShadow

nerdydad wrote: »

I remember saving up my pennies to buy a copy of Novell DOS 5, which was multitasking, of course I also remember downloading a copy of linux back then and it took almost 2 days with my 2400 baud modem.

Novell DOS 5 == Concurrent CPM 86 -> Concurrent DOS under a different name after they bought Intergalactic Digital Research (DRI)

millworx

How many of you remember this. This was one of my favorite games as a little kid. Aside from Jeopardy on my 8088, which I had to load with 5 1/2" floppy's. (Im running this in my emulator haha)

Forsaken_GA

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Kelkin

OHhhh Now we Talkin Forsaken

Cant forget FOOD Fight, space wars and trade wars!

Kelkin

tpatt100 wrote: »

I get a "wth??" response when I say I played MMOs like Wow back when mmos did not have graphics

‪Playing a MUD game with MUSHclient‬‏ - YouTube

mmmm MUDs.. I spent many an hour on those..

cxzar20

The old shareware games were epic

phantasm

Forsaken_GA wrote: »

AWESOME!! Usurper and LORD were king back in those days!!

Bokeh

lol reminded me of my first computer, Commodore Colt. Dual 5.25 floppy drives, 640k of memory, and turbo mode clicked it up to 5mhz. A real speed demon!

Someone mentioned "War Games" ... Well they are doing a remake of it, should be out sometime next year.

Chris:/*

God I miss MUDs and LORD.

I remember the first computer I got to work on was a WANG mainframe at my father's work. Got to play some roleplaying game on 1 GHz of distributed processing power.

RockinRobin

Best magazine ever!

RockinRobin

undomiel wrote: »

Sounds like someone needs to watch Wargames again.

Werd! LOL

alan2308

millworx wrote: »

How many of you remember this. This was one of my favorite games as a little kid. Aside from Jeopardy on my 8088, which I had to load with 5 1/2" floppy's. (Im running this in my emulator haha)

What do you mean remember? I've got the 32bit version that still runs fine on Windows 7. I might just have to play a game today now.

JDMurray

Geez people, we already had this topic back in 2007!!!

http://www.techexams.net/forums/off-topic/23578-what-your-first-windows-version.html

JDMurray

My oldest machines, a Heath/Zenith Z-89A (1983), a Radio Shack (Tandy) TRS-80 Model 1 (1984), and a Polo System I (MS-DOS) from Polo Microsystems (my first PC clone, 1985), have sadly long been scraped. Before that I just played on PDP-11 minis running UNIX.

And next month marks my 30th anniversary of being on the Internet. Technically, "The Internet" didn't truly exist before Jan 1, 1983, but all of the pieces were there. I was a teenager and having a Helluva good time, I can tell you.

gorebrush

First computer =

BBC Micro B

jamesp1983

millworx wrote: »

How many of you remember this. This was one of my favorite games as a little kid. Aside from Jeopardy on my 8088, which I had to load with 5 1/2" floppy's. (Im running this in my emulator haha)

that was a great game. hunting was the best part.

Hypntick

jimmypizzle83 wrote: »

that was a great game. hunting was the best part.

You have died of dysentery.