C64 here, I all I did was play games on it. Anybody remember the Summer Games and Winter Games on the old Commodore?

I didn't have a computer until 1999 or 2000. in elementary school we used a "pet"

Yup. All I did was shoot trap. Fuck diving. I sucked.

BBC Micro Model B with 32k

Mine was a Nec Versa 50 (bought in 95 as a HS grad present) with a trackball, 4 megs of RAM, 500 MB hard drive, and I had to buy a external CD drive. I remember how proud I was to beat Xwing only using a mouse.

But my High school had IBM PC juniors until my senior year.

This...Mod III to be exact.

Ditto, Wildcat FTW.



 

C-64. Still have it.

It (and the 1541) still functioned a few years ago. Cartridges were fine, but some of the floppies were already toast. Haven't turned it on since.

When I last ran it, I was able to play Summer Games, Break Street, Rambo, Commando, Lazy Jones, and Lode Runner. California Games, Airwolf, and Montezuma's Revenge wouldn't load. I really ought to fire it up again.

Holly crap....It's as if you had the same childhood as me.  386 too....except mine ran Windows 3.1

For some reason I only recall it having 7...

TRS-80 Color Computer aka The Coco.

TI 99/4A

I wish I still had my little Vic-20. I loved programming on that thing!



This pic of me and my trusty Commodore is at least 30 years old.

Family bought an Apple IIgs back in the day.  Had it stored in boxes for the last 20 years or so, but I think my dad gave it away over the last few years.  I can't seem to find it at his house.  Will have to ask him.
 

I've got one.  Maybe I need to put it on the EE.



 

Atari 800 with tape drive.

Packard Bell 286, 3.5 and 5.25 floppy drives and a whopping 40meg HD!

IBM PC Junior

A functional Lisa?  Don't let her get rid of it until you research what it might be worth.

Vic 20 but yes I loved summer and winter games on the c64.  Spy hunter and ghostbusters were cool too.

TRS-80 CoCo 2.  I did a ram upgrade to 64k (?) and bought a floppy drive for it.  Last I looked it was still in my storage building somewhere.

Commodore 64. Sadly I don't have it anymore.

I wonder what percent of people on this board, even in this thread, know what that is.

My parents had an Apple IIgs that I had in my room growing up.  I played the hell out of "Pirates"...I never could figure out how to save my game though  It spent many a night left on.

Our first "real computer" was a Pentium1 75MHz.  That thing was the shit.  I played the hell out of Doom 2 and Warcraft 2, Civilization 2, etc on that.  IIRC it cost 2200+ in 1994 money.

Even on this side of the earth my family pretty much went the same path. Commodore 64 w/tape drive, then some kind of 386 machine. Then then mighty Pentium 1. I was lucky that my parents always knew that a PC was a handy thing to have, even though they never really used them, just the kids did.






 

Timex Sinclair

Awesome!  That is how I started out.  VIC-20 on an old TV.  I finally saved enough to get the tape drive so I didn't have to type everything in again after I turned the computer off and moved to learning BASIC from those programs in the back of computer magazines.

VIC-20
C= 64
Amiga 1000
Built my first 386, then 486, and so on.

Some kind of Texas Instruments POS, had to hook it to my TV and it was still useless.  

1st PC - Atari 400. Upgraded to a C= 64. Had a couple 1541's and a MSD Dual Drive. I was runnin' shit!






 

Pirates rocked.

There was a Mech Warrior game I used to play on my CGI 8086 (actually, I think it was an IBM 8088) that I'd love to find again, used to leave it running overnight because money would accumulate interest as long as the game ran. Just stood in a safe spot and went to bed, got home from work the next day and I'd almost have enough to upgrade my mech.
Horrible, horrible graphics though

I am pretty sure its still functional, and I am pretty sure its worth a lot.  My aunt was a VP for Apple in the 80s, and helped start a number of other companies.  I always remember her telling us that Steve Jobs was an asshole.

 

I learned on this



That's a Fortran punch card, for you young whippersnappers that was the programming input for computers in 1977.

My brother got a job at Zilog in the silicon valley in 1978, I got stationed at Moffett in 1979, we built computers for fun.  First computer I owned was a Sinclair Z80 from the kit, followed by a Fry's parts-bin special that ran 8mhz in normal and 12mhz in Turbo mode. It had a 20mb external HD and it was cutting fucking edge.

The P3C's that I crewed on were booted up and loaded by mag tape.  

What did it do...sit there and blink?



 

128K Tandy color computer 3, started with the program cartridges, then got a cassette tape drive, and then 5 1/4" floppy drive and a RGB monitor instead of using a TV. I had it hooked up to a  300 bps modem and was dialing up local bulletin boards and the VAX computer at the college I worked at and surfing the very primitive internet before I knew it  was the internet.

Mine was a Laser 128...at the time the 4 color monitor was awesome...



My dad gave it to good will about 5 years ago, when I found out I was pissed.


 

Definitely a less than common computer there.

Mike

I started out on an Atari 400 with that hideous membrane keyboard and a cassette drive...



I ran a BBS on a C= 128, 2 5" drives, 2 3.5" drives, and a 1200 baud modem. I had to set the computer and drives up on blocks, put pennies in the slots on top as a heatsink, and aim a clip-on desk fan at them to keep them cool enough to run 24-7. Mostly ran on the WWIV software. Moved to Synchronet software once I made the jump to PC's. At one point, I was on only US node of SBCnet, which was HUGE in the Demo Scene - Future Crew and all of those guys. Had to call Finland to download my packets.

Macintosh Plus

cload
 

C-64 with 2-1541 disk drives

TI-99/4a with the voice modulator and the expansion box. It gave me a 5.25 diskette drive. I was unstoppable.

See link.

I used this for everything but the Internet until I finally let it die in 2007:

I'm on my first computer, which needs to be replaced ASAP, as it's a 2005 model.

That was our first one. It had an untimely death due to a pissed alcoholic and happened to be on the table. I got my first computer around 2000. It was a pos old compaq.

IIRC, a functional Lisa 1 sold for something like $15k recently.

Bummer. Let's see if I can remember my heritage.

1. TRS-80 CoCo 1 (large white case)
2. Apple ][ from my school (the labs were all //e and someone donated a regular ][ and they were going to trash it... MINE! )
3. Apple ][ from some people at church. It had a CAT (never was able to find the software for it) and the 80 column card
4. IBM 8088
5. Commodore 64 that came with more floppy disks than I'd ever seen in one place... previous owner was huge in the BBS piracy scene and I got the mother lode
6. Amiga 2000. Still probably my favorite machine ever
7. Atari 800 XL
8. 286 from a local computer shop that I eventually rebuilt into a 386DX40 with a motherboard and chip I bought at the Dayton Hamvention when I was 10. It took me 3 months to get the courage up to do the swap, but it worked on the first try. Added an 80 mb harddrive then eventually a SyQuest EZ 135. Eventually it became my first Linux machine running Slackware 2.0
9. IBM Aptiva P166. I eventually got a $8 check from the class action lawsuit around the MWave disaster.

At this point I went on a bit of a workstation kick.

10. Sun SparcStation II
11. Sun 3/60 (no framebuffer card or hard drive. I eventually repurposed an old Dell PII someone gave me as a Netboot / NFS server and got the Sun running OpenBSD.
12. VaxStation 4000VLC (OpenBSD IIRC, might have been NetBSD)
13. VaxStation 3100 (OpenVMS)

At this point I was volunteering for a computer recycling group (took old computers from businesses and gave them to schools) which had a policy of 1 free computer per 8 hours of work, so I got a lot of random 286/386 laptops and desktops, some PIIs, a few more workstations.

After that it gets a bit hazy due to all the machines going in and out of the house, but at one point I had a complete 8 node Beowulf cluster running in my basement. I was in 8th grade at the time.

Then girls were discovered and all that hardware disappeared somehow. I can't recall where it all went. I know I sold some of it, gave a bunch away, and I know more than a few were straight up trashed. But the main thing that happened is that my computers became more mainstream, as as I got more money, more modern.

My current arrangement consists of a Mac Mini, Mac Server, MacBook Pro, a Lenovo running windows for some software that requires it (remoted into with CoRD) and a bunch of laptops running Linux that serve as my dev farm. They're piled up in the basement and accessed over ssh.

I had an Epson Apex 10 or 20, I think.  Complete with the good old 3 color, CGA and a tape drive.

This was followed by the Vic-20.

I don't have the 81 anymore but I have a 1000 sitting behind me right now.


Old days? I use telnet almost daily.


I think I just threw away my 3.11 for Workgroups disks.