Acidburn
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8/13/2006 at 18:09 |
I was reading an article about the 25th anniversery of the computer and had flash backs of the first computer I used. It was a Wang and I played Zork on it around 1981. Here is a pik I found of it.
It used an acoustic modem
I also played on the TRS-80 for a bit
But ultimately Atari stole my heart
How far back do you fags remember?
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JohnLenin
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8/13/2006 at 19:27 |
When I was a kid I had an Atari and a JC Penny 'Pong' unit. Sadly, that was in 1989.
On 2006-08-13 at 14:28:30, guitarjon123 wistfully remembered Bowie's codpiece in Labyrinth
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Senor_Smoke
SENATOR BABYHEAD  Posts: 278 Registered: 9/9/2004 Offline
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8/13/2006 at 19:28 |
Commodore 64
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ghostrider
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8/13/2006 at 19:38 |
I had an old Hal 9000, it would malfunction almost daily.
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Uart
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8/13/2006 at 20:03 |
ghostrider: I had an old Hal 9000, it would malfunction almost daily.
They weren't known for their quality. |
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vasudeva
Bad Taste in your Mouth  SSHOLEPosts: 4333 Registered: 3/8/2002 Offline
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8/13/2006 at 20:08 |
Timex Sinclair 1000, baby. Oh, the typing, the typing. Byte magazine, typing in several-hundred-line programs, if you typo you're fuked, presumably you could store your program to tape but I didn't know anyone who knew how, so power off and it's gone.
Somewhere I have an ancient three-button Wang mouse I picked up at MIT flea for humor value. It's completely ridiculous, like a cigarette box with three slender rectangular depressable planks at the end.
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dragonstaff
Too old to Rock and Roll...too young to die  SSHOLEPosts: 735 Registered: 8/19/2004 Offline
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8/13/2006 at 20:38 |
Who fucked this forum?
My first was a Commodore Vic20, same problems as Vas with the typing, and plugged into the back of the TV like an original Nintendo box, using an R/F convertor. I gave up on computers for a few years after that abortion of a machine, then got a pc-xt clone that swiftly became an AT clone (286). This was a top-of- the- line box - VGA, 1meg of RAM ( on board ) 10 meg HD. I was never going to fill the drive or need a bigger box. Fucking stupid salesman.
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jwalker
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8/13/2006 at 20:38 |
I had a TRS-80 with a cassette player for storage. The high school had some Apple II Es in a little computer lab.
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middle_age_man
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8/13/2006 at 21:28 |
I have a vague recollection of these from grade school.
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