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| Thread ID: 71697 | 2006-08-14 01:41:00 | Your first PC? | sarel (2490) | PC World Chat |
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| 478342 | 2006-08-16 12:48:00 | I had a Commodore 64? (This was when I was bout six) DOGS OF WAR!!! BEST. GAME. EVA!!! Insert disk -> CTRL-ALT-DEL Then a Win 1.11 -> Win 98 -> An XP -> My Beast XP Pro Any1 know how I can get DOS Games to run in XP? Jazz Jackrabbit won't work :-( |
Cornot (10386) | ||
| 478343 | 2006-08-16 18:01:00 | Built an "AND/NAND" board in about 1959 . . . breadboarded really, with bent nails for switches and small scraps of wire and a plethora of PR2 lamps for my first "computer" . . . nothing more than a glorified abacas . Taught myself 4, 8 and 16 bit binary there . I guess a slide rule was the first real "puter" I owned . . . a Pickett model, yellow, in a cheap faux-leather case . Then a Texas Instrument pocket calc . . . in those days they were very $$$$$! It was the TI-2500 Datamath ( . vintagecalculators . com/html/texas_instruments_2500 . html" target="_blank">www . vintagecalculators . com) next, and was the envy of my classmates in highschool in New Jersey . Then the Bowmar Brain ( . vintagecalculators . com/html/bowmar_calculators . html" target="_blank">www . vintagecalculators . com) . . . . . uh huh! True, the above were basically "calculators", but they actually meet the tech requirements of computers . . . . . although rather loosely! An interesting quote from the Pickett Slide-rule manual: "A computer who must make many difficult calculations usually has a slide rule close at hand . " In 1960, "computer" was still understood to be a person who computed . By contrast, a recent dictionary begins the only definition of "computer" with "An electronic machine . . . " Went to a VIC>20 then a C>64 and learned to write in fig-FORTH ( . hccnet . nl/a . w . m . van . der . horst/figforth . html" target="_blank">home . hccnet . nl) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . learned about FILO ( . its . bldrdoc . gov/fs-1037/dir-015/_2238 . htm" target="_blank">www . its . bldrdoc . gov) , pixels, sprite collisions, stacks and RPN ( . calculator . org/rpn . html" target="_blank">www . calculator . org) there . Got an Amiga 500 and refused to "trade-up" to the 1000 as Commmodore offered a buy-back and "upgrade" at that time . Played "Forbidden Forest ( . monroeworld . com/forbiddenforest/index . htm" target="_blank">www . monroeworld . com) " and "Centipede ( . tripletsandus . com/80s/80s_games/centipede . htm" target="_blank">www . tripletsandus . com) " and "Rescue On Fractalus (remember that aliens don't knock!) ( . electriceggplant . com/rescue . html" target="_blank">www . electriceggplant . com) ", "Gyruss ( . breumelhof . nl/emulationroms/index . php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=64" target="_blank">www . breumelhof . nl) " and "SnoCat" on the Commodores, and "Marble Madness" on the Amiga . Went into puter withdrawal for a few years and got rid of everything . . . . but had the urges to get back about 10 years ago . Got an IBM Thinkpad 386, I think (might've been a 133 though! . . . or even a 33) . Hated it and 98SE . The mouse "wandered" and the colors were weak . It was slow and ran hot and just miserable on dial-up . It is now a doorstop on my patio . . . a fitting job for a piece of junk . Got a Dell 500, another Dell 450, a Compaq and a couple of home-builts now . This one is a SOYO Dragon Ultra Platinum SY333/AMD XP, running alongside another Dell 500 on LAN . Built an FIC P4, and gave it to a friend . . . they are still happy with it and use it all the time . . |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 478344 | 2006-08-17 13:44:00 | My first real machine was one of those IBM PS2 (286 etc etc) that I dug out of the inorganic when i was about 10. Good way to learn about computers, could mess around with BASIC (gwbasic of course) etc etc. And DOS and what not. Good fun. | DangerousDave (697) | ||
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