Computers you fondly remember from wee days...

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Sun Jul 18, 2004 4:30 am

Ah, yes, I remember the Packard Bell legend compy I had at one time. My first computer. Used to break down whenever it could but then I was small and did not know much about computers. I used to use the old Win 3.11 productivity Pak a lot, and my parents used to think it was silly nonsense. But that taught me a lot about computers.

Good days.

What was your first 80's monstrosity of a machine that called itself "computer"?

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Cisco_Kid · Post by **Cisco_Kid** » Sun Jul 18, 2004 6:24 am

just a young buck here so my first experience was with a C-64 connected to TV screen.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sun Jul 18, 2004 5:49 pm

The univac. J/K

My first PC was a 486DX2 66Mhz 512MB hdd that my sister was using for university. Technically my first computer was the one we bought in 2000 but the 486 I had used for a few months before she left with it. I did not really know much about computers, only how to turn it on and open ms paint. I was pretty young back then. I think I was still into electricity and stuff, but I think it was even before that so I hardly went on. The only reason I know the specs is because when we got our first computer to stay at the house (P3) I learned allot about troubleshooting because that PC crashed every half hour a way different. So I ended up making the 486 work, as my sister got a virus or something. I still have it here, but the parts in it are different.

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megaspaz · Post by **megaspaz** » Sun Jul 18, 2004 7:36 pm

my family's apple ][ and apple ][e . those computers were the shiznet.

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fragged one · Post by **fragged one** » Sun Jul 18, 2004 7:41 pm

Cisco_Kid wrote: just a young buck here so my first experience was with a C-64 connected to TV screen.

yup, that was our first, too. i remember playing games like frogger and spy hunter.

then we got a gateway2000 386/25mhz computer w/ windows 3.11 for workgroups. then i got to do stuff like realistic (

) flight simulating, and the quasi-internet (aohell).

those were the days.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sun Jul 18, 2004 7:46 pm

I remember when the internet was first available, in 1995 I think. Man it was incredible.

We had a computer at my school that had it and we took turns to go on for 10 minutes.

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Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Sun Jul 18, 2004 8:47 pm

fragged one wrote:
Cisco_Kid wrote: just a young buck here so my first experience was with a C-64 connected to TV screen.

quasi-internet (aohell).

those were the days.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sun Jul 18, 2004 9:25 pm

AOL access via long distance phone line at 14.4K.

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fragged one · Post by **fragged one** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 12:25 am

Red Squirrel wrote: AOL access via long distance phone line at 14.4K.

yup, exactly as it was for me.

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Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 12:37 am

fragged one wrote:
Red Squirrel wrote: AOL access via long distance phone line at 14.4K.

yup, exactly as it was for me.

Ring ring ring ring....beepbeepbeeepbepbepbeep beep

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Cisco_Kid · Post by **Cisco_Kid** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 11:41 am

Red Squirrel wrote: AOL access via long distance phone line at 14.4K.

speaking of internet stuff.......Prodigy at 1200 baud for me - long distance of course. All this on a blazing fast IBM PS/1 286 with a 30 MB HD; now the total 200 GB on my main system alone is cramped at best when ripping DVDs.

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VictorEM83 · Post by **VictorEM83** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 12:12 pm

I remember my first PC is was an old 386sx 300meg HDD and 8 megs of ram, it was for my mom company. It was so cool when I was 4/5 I was one of the few kids in my school to have a "home" pc next was my gateway 2000 it was a major jump to a blazing 200Mhz 2.5Gig HDD and 64 megs of ram plus a 4mb video card!

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 6:24 pm

I remember how the fact that we had a Pentium 3 450Mhz was considered a super powerful computer. now, it hardly runs as a firewall. LOL

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Bookworm · Post by **Bookworm** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 12:43 am

My first computer is the one I bought last year, but I remember my 16 year old brother working with computers back in 1975. I was only 14 then, so I don't remember all the details, but he helped the administration of his school install a computer at the high school. He programed the computer to play tic-tac-toe.

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keillor · Post by **keillor** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 5:22 am

BBC Micro and Elite. Fond memories.

I don't think that the VAX mainframe counts does it?

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sweetness · Post by **sweetness** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 8:29 am

i remember computers from the wee days but not fondly

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