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What was your first computer? - And why did you get it? (and more autistic details that almost no one would care about)
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Sounds like just what we had for our C64, though we had a dot matrix printer, some VicModem that didn't seem to work for our computer (though perhaps my brother didn't know he had to connect to a BBS) and even this fancy ass monitor that is STILL in my possession! These things do come in handy for any composite video device!
Shit yeah! That is the monitor I had. Used that thing for everything for years.
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I feel your pain, sucks to be an indie/franchisee/affiliate/authorized dealer competing next to the big boys but not with the same things.
I'm sure mine still works too, though I haven't turned it on for years. Had I had an Amiga, I would've had this as part of a makeshift production suite! Perhaps as a preview or output monitor for my videos.
This was the tape that convinced me that this was what I wanted when I went into a Software Etc. back in the late 80's....
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I was hoping my parents would buy me an Atari Games Console so I could play Pac Man. I was so disappointed.
@Curt Sibling - Learned to code using one of the many BBC Bs in my school's computer room!
@BadHabits - @AnOminous is right - they're weren't that rare! I hooked up to the internet in 2006 with a green iMac G3 a friend sold me - it broke down after three months, never to work again. I later discovered he'd found it lying in the street...
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Oh is that something that was retrofitted? Can that even be done? I know for certain it had a touchscreen because that was the hottest shit as a kid.
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An Apple II+ compatible, a used one Dad bought from his coworker. It runs DOS 3.3, had a whooping 64 kilobytes of memory, and could play Ultima IV!
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Didn't help that the advertising during the time often dissuaded parents from getting a game console for a system that would be superseded by the C64 soon enough.
I was hoping my parents would buy me an Atari Games Console so I could play Pac Man. I was so disappointed.
This guy and his mom look familiar!
I remember a time in the 80's when touchscreens were the shit if you saw one in person! For me it was the lottery ticket machine thingy at a convenient store!
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OK Computer. I got it at Sam Goody.
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Jack Tramiel was a cold, cruel man.
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Also, there was a VIC-20 port of Pacman, and at least you got Gridrunner.
I was hoping my parents would buy me an Atari Games Console so I could play Pac Man. I was so disappointed.
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The BBC Micro...Basic is the word!
God I miss that, I also loved the fireworks command in basic that was the wordart of it's day....
I think mine is still in my folks attic (aka the family craphole) and the nostalgia is getting to me.
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My first computer used vacuum tubes, so I win.
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If you go by first computer the family had, it was a Tandy 1000 my dad bought for his home office, if you're talking about first computer paid for out of my own pocket, I bought a SNES by mowing lawns one summer. If you mean PC, I bought a Dell Dimension 8300 to replace the gateway my dad bought me that crapped out.
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I got a Windows 95 from my parents on my 5th birthday (around 2000)! It was a hand-me-down from the Windows 98 my dad got a year prior. No Internet, but it didn't stop me from having oodles of fun with Paint, KidPix (that was the shit during my elementary school days) and the other computer games (mostly Disney and Barbie/Bratz/whatever girl's toy was popular at the time) I got as extra presents or from the library.
A few years later, I gave it away and replaced it with the 98 after my dad switched to a Mac. When it finally conked out around 2008(!), my mom let me use her laptop (with Vista) to mess around with games and discover YouTube for the first time.
Last but not least, I got a tablet PC for my 16th birthday that's now running slow as molasses with age; I'm currently saving up for another PC laptop.
A few years later, I gave it away and replaced it with the 98 after my dad switched to a Mac. When it finally conked out around 2008(!), my mom let me use her laptop (with Vista) to mess around with games and discover YouTube for the first time.
Last but not least, I got a tablet PC for my 16th birthday that's now running slow as molasses with age; I'm currently saving up for another PC laptop.
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What tablet is it? maybe myself or some other friendly kiwi can help you clean it up a bit to get some better performance out of it before you get your new computer.
Yep MS paint was awesome back in the day I used to love trying to draw building layouts in it so much so my mum and dad got me this really basic CAD application for kid's / teenagers and you could send off for update disk's to some PO box in London with a postal order and 3 weeks later you got a bunch of new art and software updates (ah precommercial day's of the internet, and yep at one point you couldn't use money online, it was technically illegal) and for another couple of quid you could get yourself exercise books on how to design things like houses, bridges, shops etc, and if you had a compatible game you could export them as a map, I think DooM wad files were supported as where one or two other games, but my god it was fun.
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It's a Fujitsu Lifebook that runs Windows 7. Last time I was on it, it booted up for about 5-7 minutes (no viruses, at least after I stopped using it). Thanks for the advice!
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So is it just boot time that's a issue or does it run like a tard through treacle when you're using it normally? Also what's the model?