Your first ever computer?

Trollheart · 02-15-2015, 06:25 AM

Do you remember how you started out? Contrary to what people might think about my age, I did not start with a stone Dell with counting balls and elastic, though it wasn't too far from that!

Amstrad PC, don't remember the RAM but it wasn't much and no hard drive. CGA (Colour Graphics Array) monitor --- FOUR whole colours! --- and a 5.25 (Five and a quarter) inch floppy drive. You could play a few games on it and use it for word processing, that was about it. I used to dream about buying an EGA (Enhanced Graphic Array) card to see those other 12 colours!

After that I got an IBM 286Mhz with 10 Meg hard disk (not gig, meg) and I think 512 K memory. It was big and clunky and if it fell on you it would seriously injure you. It was all built into one, like some bloody huge XT from the 70s. It had a VGA screen so I thought I had arrived. Man what a pile of **** it was, and expensive! Something like 2000 Irish Pounds, which would be about 1700 Euro.

Do you remember your first rig?

Chula Vista · 02-15-2015, 08:32 AM

Seriously don't remember. Probably a Commodore 64.

Psy-Fi · 02-15-2015, 09:01 AM

**Frownland** · 02-15-2015, 09:09 AM

Something like this.

~~Cuthbert~~ · 02-15-2015, 09:21 AM

Think it was an IBM. It had windows 95 and a game where you would ski down a slope avoiding trees and at the end a monster would run out and kill you.

It was chit tbh.

**Exo** · 02-15-2015, 09:34 AM

Never had an ever computer.

Burning Down · 02-15-2015, 09:34 AM

It was some old IBM piece of sh*t running Windows 3.1. After that we had an Apple Mac.

The Batlord · 02-15-2015, 09:37 AM

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.

**Exo** · 02-15-2015, 09:42 AM

Oh my god Hover. I haven't seen that sh*t in YEARS. Thanks for dusting off the old childhood bats.

The Batlord · 02-15-2015, 09:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Exo_

Oh my god Hover. I haven't seen that sh*t in YEARS. Thanks for dusting off the old childhood bats.

Apparently Microsoft brought it back as a browser game, although they "updated" the graphics, and let you choose different cars. If you type "bambi" at the main screen though it'll let you play level 1 of the retro game. Why they didn't just give you the old game in the first place is beyond me.

Hover!

02-15-2015, 06:25 AM	#1 (permalink)
Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,992	Your first ever computer? Do you remember how you started out? Contrary to what people might think about my age, I did not start with a stone Dell with counting balls and elastic, though it wasn't too far from that! Amstrad PC, don't remember the RAM but it wasn't much and no hard drive. CGA (Colour Graphics Array) monitor --- FOUR whole colours! --- and a 5.25 (Five and a quarter) inch floppy drive. You could play a few games on it and use it for word processing, that was about it. I used to dream about buying an EGA (Enhanced Graphic Array) card to see those other 12 colours! After that I got an IBM 286Mhz with 10 Meg hard disk (not gig, meg) and I think 512 K memory. It was big and clunky and if it fell on you it would seriously injure you. It was all built into one, like some bloody huge XT from the 70s. It had a VGA screen so I thought I had arrived. Man what a pile of **** it was, and expensive! Something like 2000 Irish Pounds, which would be about 1700 Euro. Do you remember your first rig? __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018 Last edited by Trollheart; 02-15-2015 at 06:35 AM.

02-15-2015, 08:32 AM	#2 (permalink)
Chula Vista Toasted Poster Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: SoCal by way of Boston Posts: 11,332	Seriously don't remember. Probably a Commodore 64. __________________ “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, 09:09 AM	#4 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	Something like this. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

02-15-2015, 09:34 AM	#6 (permalink)
Exo All day jazz and biscuits Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: NJ Posts: 7,354	Never had an ever computer. __________________ LastFM SUPREME POO BAH MODERATOR EXTRAORDINAIRE

02-15-2015, 09:42 AM	#9 (permalink)
Exo All day jazz and biscuits Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: NJ Posts: 7,354	Oh my god Hover. I haven't seen that sht in YEARS. Thanks for dusting off the old childhood bats. __________________ LastFM SUPREME POO BAH MODERATOR EXTRAORDINAIRE*

02-15-2015, 09:21 AM	#5 (permalink)
~~Cuthbert~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: The Black Country Posts: 8,827	Think it was an IBM. It had windows 95 and a game where you would ski down a slope avoiding trees and at the end a monster would run out and kill you. It was chit tbh.

02-15-2015, 09:34 AM	#7 (permalink)
Burning Down The Music Guru. Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Beyond the Wall Posts: 4,858	It was some old IBM piece of sh*t running Windows 3.1. After that we had an Apple Mac.