Your first ever computer?

innerspaceboy · 02-15-2015, 10:02 AM

i386 SX 20MHz Magnavox PC - perhaps the only Magnavox computer ever sold. Purchased at the short-lived Computer City big box store.

Fondest memories:

- Summers spent fiddling in QBASIC tweaking NIBBLES.BAS and GORILLA.BAS,
- MAPEDITing WOLF3D
- Playing with sound modules in MFED
- The Commander Keen series
- and SoundBlaster's Talking Parrot and Dr SBAITSO.

Chula Vista · 02-15-2015, 10:39 AM

Already won the 2015 Dweeb Nerd of the year award.

Dude, you're amazing.

innerspaceboy · 02-15-2015, 11:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Chula Vista

Already won the 2015 Dweeb Nerd of the year award.

Dude, you're amazing.

I'm going to raise the Dweeb Nerd bar... yesterday evening's cataloging project is now complete. My sig below includes a searchable index of nearly 113,000 tracks in my vinyl, CD, and digital libraries.

FILE UNDER: Needs to get out of the house more often. (I really shouldn't be proud of this.)

Key · 02-15-2015, 11:19 AM

This is almost exactly what my first computer looked like:

Look at me now, duel screen 27 in flatscreen LG monitors with 2 terabytes of hard drive space. I've grown.

ladyislingering · 02-15-2015, 11:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Ki

This is almost exactly what my first computer looked like:

Look at me now, duel screen 27 in flatscreen LG monitors with 2 terabytes of hard drive space. I've grown.

same. Windows 98, dial-up service, beta MSN, etc.

fond memories, but not-so-fond memories because now I want to throw something if a thing takes more than 10 seconds to load on my mobile phone.

how the mighty have fallen

The Batlord · 02-15-2015, 11:45 AM

I still can't believe my internet connects all by itself. With no Merzbow playing in the background.

Key · 02-15-2015, 11:46 AM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

I still can't believe my internet connects all by itself. With no Merzbow playing in the background.

I can't believe that my computer completely starts up in less than 10 seconds. I used to have to wait a few minutes for that to happen.

ladyislingering · 02-15-2015, 11:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Ki

I can't believe that my computer completely starts up in less than 10 seconds. I used to have to wait a few minutes for that to happen.

my old computer (Windows XP still installed) is chilling at my parents' house.

... it used to take 15 minutes to boot up.

Zer0 · 02-15-2015, 12:05 PM

Can't remember the exact model, but it was a Gateway 2000 with Windows 95 similar to this:

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

No idea, but I know it had Windows 95. And mine came with Hover: capture the flags, play bumper cars with the enemy hover cars, and the same three levels over and over again. I loved it.

Yes! I used to play this game the whole time. It was a simple game but it was so much fun. Ah, the memories.

The Batlord · 02-15-2015, 12:08 PM

I was just playing it a few minutes ago, and I'd forgotten how maddening the physics engine is. Just watching yourself sail impotently past a flag only inches away is the ultimate slap in the face.

02-15-2015, 10:39 AM	#12 (permalink)
Chula Vista Toasted Poster Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: SoCal by way of Boston Posts: 11,332	Already won the 2015 Dweeb Nerd of the year award. Dude, you're amazing. __________________ “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

02-15-2015, 11:19 AM	#14 (permalink)
Key . Join Date: Dec 2010 Posts: 13,153	This is almost exactly what my first computer looked like: Look at me now, duel screen 27 in flatscreen LG monitors with 2 terabytes of hard drive space. I've grown.