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otisnoble
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My first computer was a Pide Piper which ran on the CPM operating system because they said windows would never make it. It was portable, meaning that it had a handled to carry it like a suitcase. It had to be plugged into either a TV set or green screen monitor. No graphics. One built in 5.25 floppy and one plugin 5.25 floppy, no harddrive. Memory was a wapping 64K.
The only RPG games I could play were nongraphic type in the words games like Zork. You had to make a map on paper with every Go East, Go West, Pick up the stick, knock on the door. Sounds boring now but at the time it was great.
Today I look back fondly on those days as I play STO on my Alienware computer in my room at the Old Folks home.
The only RPG games I could play were nongraphic type in the words games like Zork. You had to make a map on paper with every Go East, Go West, Pick up the stick, knock on the door. Sounds boring now but at the time it was great.
Today I look back fondly on those days as I play STO on my Alienware computer in my room at the Old Folks home.
Fleet Admiral Stephen
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Had graphical games on it but well .. fun times
The C64 came out a few days after I bought mine.:rolleyes:
My walking cane, however, has flames on it.
My walker has a cup holder.
Later came the C 64, and then finally a 12 MhZ PC with a stunning 8 mb ram (I think it even had that "Turbo" button)
When I went to look at personal computers, I took my cousin along who was an engineer at Bell Labs, and had the first personal computer of anyone I knew. It was a Tandy with a tape drive. We went to the IBM store which was selling their new PC. The salesman thought he knew what was best for me, and wouldn't show me the PC, but wanted to show me the "portable version". We left there and went to a locally owned place that was selling Kaypros. They ended up selling me the Kaypro and my next two computers.
The Kaypro saved my bacon in graduate school. I still have it, and I keep threatening to get it down out of the attic, because I have a game on it I want to play.
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It was my Senior year in high school (1977).
We had to color-in little dots on about 60 'Punch Cards' in order to be able to feed them into a 'Reader' that then took over-night to send back information to our Dot-Matrix printer in the class.
It ended up being a picture of Snoopy doing his happy dance.
The first 'computer-like' device I had at home, was an ATARI and the only game I had was PONG.
(played that thing for hours)
I too then got a COMMODORE-64.
The first actual PC I got, was a Packard 'Hell' with a .75Mb hard-drive, phone modem and a 13" Monitor.
That was in 1995 while I was working part-time at Montgomery Wards.
It was a return I picked up for $200 bucks. (originally listed at $1999.99)
(we had a great employee discount back then)
It was with this machine that I first discovered the Internet and the AOL Chat rooms.
(thus my DaveyNY, No-Numbers title)
I think, if I remember correctly, I've had five other PC's since then.
:cool:
I Was A Trekkie Before It Was Cool ... Sept. 8th, 1966 ... Not To Mention Before Most Folks Around Here Were Born!
Forever a STO Veteran-Minion
I did the mainframe thing in College in 73. No monitor just a dot matrix printer that would spit out the questions you needed to answer and then your answer and if you got the question right, then it would spit out a punch card that you gave to the professor. Also the keyboard had round keys.
80 MB Hard Drive
2 MB RAM
5.25" + 3.5" Floppies
VGA card
From Make-A-Wish in 1992.
Came with DOS 5.0, Windows 3.1, KidPix, BattleChess and probably a few other things installed.
Didn't take long before we were passing 3.5"'s around school. Wolfenstein, Syndicate, Commander Keen, etc.
<chuckle>
I Was A Trekkie Before It Was Cool ... Sept. 8th, 1966 ... Not To Mention Before Most Folks Around Here Were Born!
Forever a STO Veteran-Minion
Yeah, I tried to upgrade my brain but they don't make the parts anymore.
Then I graduated to a Xerox 860 with a 10 inch (yes, TEN inch) floppy drive.
No cane, no walker...yet!
You obviously didn't contact the correct seller...
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I Was A Trekkie Before It Was Cool ... Sept. 8th, 1966 ... Not To Mention Before Most Folks Around Here Were Born!
Forever a STO Veteran-Minion
You obviously didn't contact the correct seller...
See Here
(to bad Best Buy is probably going out of business)
I Was A Trekkie Before It Was Cool ... Sept. 8th, 1966 ... Not To Mention Before Most Folks Around Here Were Born!
Forever a STO Veteran-Minion
Actually I know the manufacturer personally but there is no money back guarantee as Adam and Eve voided the warrantee
8086 CPU
128 KB RAM
NO HDD
2x 5,25" Diskdrive
CGA Graphics
TA-DOS 2.6
Made 1983. I got it Second hand in 1991 for 50 DM.
It is still fully Operational
My mother bought it for my brother and I, in '83. I was 11 at the time, and to us it was "the best thing since sliced bread" ... We'd sit and enter "code" for hours.. data input found in books and magazines at the time.
<sigh>
Scary...
Jolan'tru!
my first computer was a windows 98 model, I don't remember the exact model but I know that type of game and they are not boring at least not to me. I'm only 23 and I never knew about the green screen PCs but I almost wish I did they sound, while low-tech, fun with those games
IBM 486 processor
1.25 GB hard drive i think
maybe 32 or even 64 MB ram
DOS 6.1 and Win 3.1
Not as old as a lot of you obviously, but it had the unique distinction of being my gaming rig for the Star Trek: 25th Anniversary game, which installed from TWELVE 3.5" floppy disks
What I like about Zork was that they left everything up to your imagination since I couldn't see what the world looked like except in my mind and on paper. The mind's eyes see better than anything cobbled together by men.
Which was followed a few years later by a SparcStation2 and 10.
Which hold me out for a few more years. Then a Sun Blade 1000 and a SGI Octance.
Also got a Sun Enterprise 4000 with 8 cpus and a A5100 Fibrechannel array.
These days mostly x86 machines for playing sto and running Solaris x86.
I think I found the thing on the fancy interwebs. I think it was the Atari 410. It was a long time ago but it looks familiar.
And personally, I don't believe I could stand a Rocking Chair. A nice, comfy office chair will do just nicely though...
Thank you for the time...
Cryptic, would you actulaly like me to spend actual Money? It's Simple:
TRS-80 (Model I) with a whopping 4K of system RAM and a cassette deck for saving/loading software.:eek::D:)
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And for the record, I bought my first non-old man car just last year, having driven Buick Park Avenues and Pontiac Bonnevilles since High School. I turned 30 and celebrated with a Nissan.