Post by: Dexter on May 15, 2000, 08:09:37 PM
Well I\'m not too special but I\'ve used a IBM PCjr.
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Post by: EMREF on May 15, 2000, 08:36:41 PM
Time to learn is endless
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Post by: GearHead on May 16, 2000, 10:33:37 AM
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The Overlordian,
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Post by: lanwizard on May 17, 2000, 03:00:12 AM
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i am nothing.
Post by: AceUser on September 19, 2000, 04:42:59 PM
Post by: MaJiK_Friend on September 21, 2000, 07:16:32 AM
At the time I had the Super PET at my disposal... Not mine personally, but I had complete open access to it. I think that was the Super Pet anyways? Maybe it was still the Pet 2000?
Maybe the latter because I felt pretty big in the pants getting to use that old 8.25 Floppy drive on the Super Pet?
All I can remember well of the P2000 was Space Invaders. (and that damned tape drive!)
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Post by: Jandar on October 19, 2000, 07:22:00 AM
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Post by: The_Flames on June 25, 2001, 10:45:24 AM
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Post by: SeaBass on June 25, 2001, 12:53:55 PM
I adore my 64,
my Commodore 64.
I rate with it, create with it,
telecommunicate with it,
my Commodore 64.
I\'ve still got my whole system including games. (Ultima 4!!!)
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Post by: Anonymous on September 26, 2001, 01:08:07 PM
Timex-Sinclair 1000 - with a WHOPPING 16K of memory!
/smile.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\':)\' />I should fire it up and play with with it, well maybe when I\'m retired and don\'t have so much studying/research to do.
Post by: Pandelirium on September 29, 2001, 03:58:47 AM
Second oldest owned/still do - Amiga 1000 or IBM PC (8088-4.77mhz/640k/20Meg -MFM-HDD/CGA/BASIC loader Cassette/8\" External Dual Floppy drives and 3½\"[720]+ 5¼\"[360] Dbl density FDD)
Oldest system used - Bourroughs cir.1970s and an old CRAY - Late \'60s - it was used for the Space program (have VERY little exposure using it though)
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Post by: Anonymous on October 09, 2001, 10:53:11 AM
I thought I was the [censored] when I figured out that you could cover a pin on the rom cartridges for it then type in a couple of peek and poke commands then type in another command and dump the rom catridge contents onto the tape drive so you could play it later without the cartridge installed.
those were the days...
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Post by: Cleeetuss on October 10, 2001, 12:48:55 PM
In the origional box with the Data Cassette Recorder and all.
Also Have my Commodore 128 with 300 baud Mighty Moe Modem.
Post by: Anonymous on October 10, 2001, 06:29:01 PM
Post by: joe pribish on October 11, 2001, 12:50:28 AM
this was one of those that took up a whole room, and all the people in the room looked like doctors, and the room was air conditioned all the time. the computer was a 64k memory total and the info was stored on drums that where 10-12 feet long and 2 feet in dia. they would change these drums with a crane. and the info was input from those big IBM teletypes with the letters on a big ball. these were called \"remotes\", and every place that need computer support had one that the would type info to the main frame computer......
Post by: Slider on October 11, 2001, 08:34:21 AM
and your not going to beleive it.. I went back to Australia not so long ago and my Mother was still using it....
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Post by: Anonymous on October 23, 2001, 11:41:21 PM
Otherwise, I have used (but never owned) an ancient computer that ran CP/M and used an 8\" floppy drive (remember those anyone?) It also had a 300 baud Hayes coupler modem. ;-) I\'m 22 now and just built myself a P3 1GHz system with 256Mb of RAM (or is it 256K?) :-)
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Post by: jbraddoc on November 01, 2001, 12:13:58 AM
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Post by: jbuff on November 03, 2001, 06:02:26 PM
First computer programmed was GE-635 in 1966. Along the way, I have programmed for the IBM 1620, 8080, Z-80, 6800, 6809, 68000, 8086, 80286, NS32000, Fairchild Clipper, 80386, 80486, and many others.
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Post by: cholla chomper on November 26, 2001, 10:59:38 AM
cholla
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Post by: Captain 2000 on December 09, 2001, 08:22:31 PM
with standard 16k (yes thats K) of RAM with a further
16 K module stuffed in the back. Also had a floppy disk
drive for it that held 80 k on each side. I had to take the
disk out and turn it over for DS use. I still have the original tape drive somewhere, used standard cassettes.
Was the greatest at the time....
Post by: FrogByte on December 22, 2001, 05:29:15 PM
I still own a Franklin Ace1000, still in working condition too. Remember Franklin? They were the company that copied the Apple II+ and included lower case without having to install the Paymer chip. A clock card for the Apple set me back $120.00 and another $139.00 for a 13\' green screen monitor. Another $120.00 for a microbuffer, so I didn\'t have to wait on the printer before I could use the computer again. Damn, I had it all in those days, and for a little under $3000.00 LOL Hard drive, what\'s that? I had a friend in LA that had one salvaged from a large network, I believe it was 10MB and was about the size of a small washing machine. It would dim the lights while it came up to 3600 RPM. I used to buy good USED Dysan 5.25\" floppies from him for only $1.00each.
Anyway, I love my old Franklin machine and fire it up now and ,just to keep the spiders on the run.
Post by: Merc on December 27, 2001, 08:10:33 AM
My parents nearly went broke upgrading that piece of plastic for me. I kept running out of memory or hitting other limitations of the hardware with the BASIC programs I wrote at the time. It ended up with Level II BASIC, 48k of RAM, dual cassette drives, dual disk drives, TRSDOS and LDOS, and the TBUG debugger.
Hehe, I still remember the pain of hand coding in Z80 machine language because I didn\'t know there was such a thing as an assembler. I recall staring at awe at 10 pages of assembly listing in 80-Micro magazine and wondering HOW they can do 10 pages of machine code without a single error; I just thought the assembly listings were a standard way to document your machine languge code...
Post by: Anonymous on January 01, 2002, 06:09:07 AM
Oldest I have even touched was a 386SX.
Oldest I have seen was an Atari (Dunno what model).
Post by: jon on January 03, 2002, 03:33:51 AM
Tape deck, primitive joystick all in classic late 70\'s brown...
Was given a sinclair qc and atari 1200, both didnt work, 1200 is now a money box.
still have the commodore
Post by: Horrorking.Com on January 05, 2002, 09:40:32 PM
Tape adapter, heaps of game cartridges, an extended Basic one (which died after a couple of years), and dual joysticks with ONE button on each one - WOW :-)
David
Post by: Troy on January 06, 2002, 06:26:27 AM
Recently, I acquired a leg breaking laptop from circa 1988. A Tandy1400LT with two 720Kb Floppy Drives, 16K ROM, 768K RAM (No hard drive). It weighs a slight 13.5lbs
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Post by: Old_Man on January 07, 2002, 03:19:14 AM
Oldest system I ever owned was a Radio Shack PC-1 with the single line display and all the goodies. Just donated it about two months ago.
Oldest system still currently and actively in use, Intel 486DX33 running my DOS and Win3.1 files
Post by: eekarum on January 10, 2002, 08:53:08 PM
it came with high-end CAD software for the time, and a nice, big color plotter that used little 2 inch-tall markers (plotter pens) one -by one.
not sure what year it was built, but before hp-ux began selling big.
Oldest was a Commodore PET, always tried to hack its mainframe and have no idea for what purpose or reason
Post by: Anonymous on January 12, 2002, 04:14:03 PM
/smile.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\':)\' /> Oh my god, what fun i had with that thing.
Post by: Killer Tee on January 13, 2002, 03:21:52 AM
Geez now my Cache has more than 64 k
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Post by: Billy-Bob on January 14, 2002, 10:34:08 PM
2 Amigas, Commie 128, XS64, MSD Dual Drives, then onto the Intel stuff....Yea, it\'s been a long strange trip!
Post by: Anonymous on January 19, 2002, 01:14:10 PM
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Post by: pud on January 20, 2002, 09:30:54 AM
Post by: jimmy on January 21, 2002, 05:10:36 PM
Anyone remember Gauntlet.....The Way of the Fist (I think that was what it was called)...anyone have the Softaid set of games (raised money for the famine in Ethiopia ie Bandaid!), there was an excellent little platfrom game called Gumshoe!!!!
Post by: jimmy on January 21, 2002, 05:18:30 PM
Post by: AnTMaN on January 22, 2002, 12:21:18 PM
I had Leisure Suite Larry 1 (first pirated game I believe), Jack Nicklaus Golf and the first game I ever had on this thing was Falcon 1.
The system would still work today if I hadn\'t killed it trying to mod the mainboard and CPU to run \"faster\" when I got my new PC! What a shame. I can still play the old games tho on my PIII 1G. hehehehe.
Post by: SpewN on January 28, 2002, 05:18:18 AM
My first PC was a IBM PS1 with 17Mhz and 2meg ram and 30 megs HDD... I remember upgrading it to 4 megs o´ ram and it cost me 250$ gosh were those prices high!?! =) thats is 125 buck per megabyte of ram... compare those prices against todays prices and see what we´ll get in 10 years from now.. damn the technique is getting faster for every minute...
At least that system lasted for about 3 years without having to upgrade the hardware... Buy the best system today and there will be a better system out tomorrow!
Computers is unstable... dont take ANYTHING for granted... I hold my thumbs every time when i´m installing a new OS... and almost every time SOMTHING goes wrong. Cant there be anything better then the computer... thats relieble???
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Post by: Stick on January 28, 2002, 11:45:46 PM
Post by: Turor on January 31, 2002, 01:31:45 AM
I still have some misc. mac 68k machines holding up my work bench. none of them are fast enough to run NetBSD tho. So they dont have any use any more. Maybe someday they will be antiques, people will put them on their coffee tables for fun..
I also have some ibm XStations and an RS but they are only about 10~12 years old.
Post by: qajfat on February 02, 2002, 01:25:39 PM
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Post by: ODY on February 07, 2002, 10:10:22 AM
Pentium 90mhz, Pentium 133mhz, AMD K6-2 350Mhz, P3 600Mhz, AMD T-Bird 1,4Ghz and latest a Dual P3 933Mhz
/smile.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\':)\' />Got all system, I have newer sold a system and I newer will
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Post by: Anonymous on February 09, 2002, 03:33:46 PM
-- Moses
Post by: CanadDan on February 12, 2002, 11:29:41 PM
At around the same time (maybe a bit earlier) my elementary school became one of the first schools with a PC Lab with over a dozen PET\'s with the external cassette tape drive.
Post by: Sally on February 13, 2002, 12:35:12 PM
Post by: Dead Robot on February 13, 2002, 05:03:34 PM
Deadrobot
Post by: Anonymous on February 18, 2002, 06:25:40 PM
zx80
zx81
zx81 + 16k memory adaptor (does anyone knbow why it had a panda pic on it?)
commodore 16
commodore 64
zx spectrum
master system
megadrive
nes
snes
saturn
playstation
n64
pc PIII 450 8mb Graphics ([censored] Ati model -> quicker on software mode)
pc AMD 1600XP 64mb Geforce 2mx 400 ( Sweet little ride )
Post by: Trashpad on February 22, 2002, 10:03:00 AM
Post by: theMediaman on February 25, 2002, 02:32:26 PM
What about the oldest system still in regular use? My secondary system is a P166 (sans MMX), 64 MB EDO, 3.2 GB. Mostly used for sucking and blowing files thru Morpheus.
Post by: wicky on March 01, 2002, 12:52:56 AM
Post by: Anonymous on March 03, 2002, 04:53:33 PM
32kb RAM and CP/M as OS. Build in 2 5 1/4\" 170k Floppy Drives.
Post by: whizcat on March 03, 2002, 10:56:20 PM
Post by: Anonymous on March 09, 2002, 08:54:39 AM
Anyway thats my 2 cents.
Me
\"Target their cargo hold, Time to take out the grabage\" Capt. Janeway, Star Trek Voyager, NIGHT
Post by: Anonymous on April 10, 2002, 07:24:49 AM
I can remember as if it were yesterday. I was so proud to own the first computer on my block, the old reliable Timex Sinclair 1000. A fine machine of superior build, Z80A/3.25Mhz processor, a whopping 16k ram, and a cassette storage unit to boot. I can remember the countless hours wasted trying to load frogger from cass. onto the dumb thing. To make matters worst, my parents bought two, and I still have them both.
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Post by: damadprofessor on April 13, 2002, 01:39:51 PM
with the ADD-ON 4K MODULE and the audio-tape recorder!
hehe, man, talk about old-school! I remember fast-forwarding audio data tapes to find my old Flight Simulator program!
I went from the Sinclair to an Atari 800XL [programmed my own graphic program on it in AtariBASIC, with COPY-N-PASTE routines in 2 color hi-res mode! But i got 4 colors out if it using the red/blue aliasing bug as a fill tool. I even programmed a font drawing system to render text in any size! ] WOW, I can\'t believe i\'ve forgotten about that till now!
Then at school i learned to use [in order] the Commodore 64, Apple II, the first Macintosh [ and thus my intro into hi-res graphics! ], my old trusty 8086 clone, the IBM PC XT [Deluxe Paint ruled my planet!] revolution and onward and upward to bigger better faster clock speeds and oooo the growing palettes of pretty colors!
what a LONG and monitarily justifying ride it\'s been!
long live the 80\'s Geeks that came into our own!!
B.Gates, don\'t be mad, it\'s a 50/50 love-hate thing for you,
BUT thank you!!
Post by: Anonymous on April 16, 2002, 09:22:31 AM
Big external metal *thing*.
Maybe I was talking to Bill and Steve back in the *old* days..
lol..there were about 25 of us online at the time... :-))
Debbs
Post by: Anonymous on April 18, 2002, 10:29:43 AM
I also have a Model II, III, IV, and IV4p as well as an original CoCo.
Oldest I used was probably either a Dec Pdp-8, or the Rockwell Aim-65 that I used to learn assembly WAY back when.
Post by: BobS19 on April 21, 2002, 10:04:13 AM
Post by: Johnny Cache on April 21, 2002, 07:42:00 PM
In college, I got to play with the IBM 360 mainframe. I remember when IBM loaned us an extra megabyte of main memory - wow! We either had to use punched cards (let them hold your student ID, and they\'d loan you a drum for the 029) aor stand in line and use the teletype terminals - hardwired in to go at a blinding 600 baud!