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@CK – Schalk 170855 wrote:
I think I might have one of those. Sinclair ZX Spectrum. Also worked with the tapes, and had a cool Jetpack game
Yep – the Speccy was my upgrade from the TRS-80 eventually …
It had real colours …
Woww…
:santa2:@byebyebaby 170795 wrote:
Also a commodore 64 with the taperecorder.
Me too, and when hard drives came out I bought one at a “computer swap” (and met my husband at the occasion :3eyes:) and stuck it in a cigar box.
I also had a “bulletin board” called “The Pet Board”. When I tried to get it listed in the phonebook a rep came to my house to see what it was. They kept insisting that they listed bulletin boards – the things you stuck notes on. I did finally persuade them to list it under a new heading – computer bulletin board.
The very first modem had 300 baud. I went up to 1200 and then 2400 baud – pure heaven, lol!
One person could call in at a time and post to the forums. I was the sysop and could break in and talk to them any time. Scared the dickens out of some of them lol!
The board was busy 24/7. It was to cover all kinds of pets and questions about them, but the ferret people took it over, they called incessantly and it ended up being almost completely about ferrets. I should have saved the content, I could make the biggest and best site about ferrets online today.
Ha, I remember mine, it was a Pentium75, can’t remember the brand. Was the latest at the time and if I remember correctly, it cost around $1200. At the time, they were improving so fast, that it didn’t take long before it was obsolete.
I’m pretty sure my parents kept it somewhere in their basement!
commodore 16, commodore 64, then the amiga.
Green Beret, Gauntlet, Kick Off, Player Manager, Speedball……ahhhh the memories……
Great thread… My first computer was a Radio Shack TRS-80 with a massive 4k memory, I double stacked the chips to get a 16k machine (woo hoo) Had a slot in the side for program cartridges and used a cassette tape drive to save files, took like 1/2 hour to get one file saved and was hooked up to my 13″ TV…LMOA. I thought I was hot S&^t when I got a 5 1/4 floppy and could notch the disks to get them to write both sides.
When I left the US Navy (we still had punch cards) I became a manager for Radio Shack, this was in the glory days of Radio Shack… Our store system used three 5 1/4 floppy drives and we would have to change disks for the application we wanted, payroll, orders and transmit disk. Dialed the modem phone number on the phone and shoved the handset of the phone into the rubber cups of the blistering 300 baud modem.
Graduated to our first hard drive with a whole meg of space and the size of a large briefcase! Think it sold for 2k at the time hahaha
The biggest advance was a 20 meg “hardcard” the 1st internal HD and sold tons of them for 799.00! What a diffference now….
Anyone recall the first laptop? It was the the Tandy 100… LCD screen (old school) display and 4k ram expandable to 8k. I think it was 1999.99 when introduced. Now I have 2 gig ram, 200 gig HD, 17″ true brite, DVD burner all for $549! I love it!
Who woulda thunk it
Dominique;170971 wrote:Me too, and when hard drives came out I bought one at a “computer swap” (and met my husband at the occasion :3eyes:) and stuck it in a cigar box.
I also had a “bulletin board” called “The Pet Board”. When I tried to get it listed in the phonebook a rep came to my house to see what it was. They kept insisting that they listed bulletin boards – the things you stuck notes on. I did finally persuade them to list it under a new heading – computer bulletin board.
The very first modem had 300 baud. I went up to 1200 and then 2400 baud – pure heaven, lol!
One person could call in at a time and post to the forums. I was the sysop and could break in and talk to them any time. Scared the dickens out of some of them lol!
The board was busy 24/7. It was to cover all kinds of pets and questions about them, but the ferret people took it over, they called incessantly and it ended up being almost completely about ferrets. I should have saved the content, I could make the biggest and best site about ferrets online today.
Man BB’s I belonged to about 12 of them in the day, at that time I had a super dooper 286 machine with a massive 105 meg HD and 1200 baud modem. Used to play the old advbenture games, Zork, I think. No graphics, just text, careful you might get eaten by a grue! LMAO thanks for the trip down memory lane.
My good friend in elementary had an Atari 400, one of the first, and only touch button computers / game console! He actually made programs in BASIC on that thing! :tongue:
p.s. forgot the zx-81 sinclair also had a touch keyboard. they always wore out imho! :hattip:
First computer was a commodore 64.
was really young and got it for a christmas present . Remember only playing video games on it , never went online as I didnt know how .
Loved playing gauntlet , gijoe , some olympic games and strip poker. Also remember playing that text based game farmers daughter .
My Uncle had a Commodore that we played golf on in the mid 80s He was the first one that I knew of that actually FTPd his way around in the late 80s early 90s
My first computer was in 1991 an IBM it had half DOS and half windows operating system on it a 386… ram? $1800.00 wow did they se me coming. Was on Prodigy doing all the fun stuff back then without the net.
Ohh.. Prodigy….. They had this business game on there that I just loved.
They set it up as you were the CEO of this corporation and you had to make business decisions to gain market share etc. that was great!
Any one else do this? I kicked butt in that game a few times. And also lost it -)Brad
