How many of you are younger the first PC?

[KvHagedorn]

This is the first PC I remember playing with. It's amazing the hours of fun you can have with BASIC and 16k of RAM when you don't know any better.

btw, I used a book that came with this thing to program a variant of Colossal Cave Adventure. I originally played that game at college on the unix console in my dorm (1980.. when that was the only computer in a dorm of 600+ students at one of the country's top ten universities. Hard to imagine we were this primitive so recently, eh?

[Brian Ellis]

I'm a LOT older than ALL electronic computers, even ENIAC!

[ND66]

I'm a LOT older than ALL electronic computers, even ENIAC!

Now I know where the wisdom comes from … .



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[Nappe1]

1979... Those days Commodore was raising it's ugly head.

My first touch to computers might have been Commodore 64 running Rally Speedway... I think it happened somewhere in 1982 or 1983. My own first computer was (suprsingly) Commodore 64, which I got in 1989. after that, in january 1993, I took a giant leap to 486sx25MHz with whopping 4MB Ram, 120MB HDD and Sound Blaster 16. After that, it has been more or less just evolution, instead of revolution.

and oh... I am still playing with C64 in regular basis... I have nowadays 2 64s, 3 floppy drives (2x1541 and 1541-II), whole bunch of joysticks, X1541 cables, Action Replay IV, few tape drives... etc.

[NetSnake]

spectrum zx
amstrad 1512 1FD, no HD, B/W monitor still works
amiga 500
ICL 486 25Mhz, 200MB HD, color monitor

[Kooldino]

dbdg, quite a lot apparently

http://www.oldskool.org/pc/8088_Corruption

(OK, it's not the first PC...but close)

wow!