This was my first computer

[agn]

I played Zork on this puppy (http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=18).

Mostly i just typed games in from the pages of a magazine.

One...friggen...key...at...a..time.

I remember typing for hours and then when I finally typed RUN a little white rectangle would launch from a 3 pixel base and fly up the screen and land on a pixelated moon. Good times.

[Blackwolf]

I still have a lot of the old COMPUTE! and RUN magazines that had Commodore 64 games in them. Some of them were in BASIC, some were in "MLX" which was basically a whole lot of hex numbers.

Of course, the MLX compiler was also in the magazine, written in BASIC. You had to write the MLX program in order to write the MLX games. But the games in MLX were a lot better than the BASIC games since you were typing directly into machine language.

But heaven forbid you get just one hex number incorrect in those MLX programs!

[Tom the First]

This was my first computer. I still have it in my basement. Runs fine last time I turned it on. (http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_classic/stats/mac_classic_ii.html)

[Octocamo]

Lol, my first PC was a "Webtv"...Wtf? It's not even a PC.

Since I bought my first PC myself, it was a 1.8ghz Celeron, 256mb of RAM, and a 80gb harddrive...heh...Yeah, I've never owned a real PC until 2003.

[alexsan]

I can remember my first computer. I used to play hollywood high on it and make mini movies.

[Burr]

The Apple ][+ was my first one. (http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=571)

I remember looking at magazines at the time and some of them would have these scannable programs on these complex bardcode like things. Pretty neat. Never used it though.

[AcquiredTarget]

Commodore 64 greatest.computer.EVAR (http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=98)

[Sub-Z]

My first PC was the Compaq Presario 425, the most unupgradable son of a ****ing bitch known unto man.

I did learn a lot from it though and it introduced me to so many things. Doom, Heretic, Floppy disks, Dos and Windows 3.1, BBSes, the internet... :)

486 SX 25, 4 megs of ram, 200 meg HD, 2400 baud modem.



http://home.valornet.com/rj/presario425.jpg

[Style]

My first pc was a 386 custom.

I don't remember all the parts. but it was like 16 mhz, 680k of ram, and i dont even know the card drive space.

this was even before windows, where you had Dos 5.0, and a custom made menu that you could run programs from.

it also had like a 3 baud modem.

[Duality]

Of course, the MLX compiler was also in the magazine, written in BASIC. You had to write the MLX program in order to write the MLX games. But the games in MLX were a lot better than the BASIC games since you were typing directly into machine language.
Would it be called a compiler, or an interpreter?

Sorry. I'm actually paying attention in my VB.Net class and we went over a brief history of programming. Sounds like MLX is more akin to assembler than actually writing machine code. :)

As for my first PC, that would be the Atari 800XL (http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=27&st=1) quickly followed up by a Commodore 64 (http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=98). Years later (about 1996), I'd find a cheap Commodore 128 (http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=96) to replay all my old games, as well as new ones that a few friends of mine in school traded.

Yes, that's right. We began a Commodore game swapping group. In 1996. God we were such nerds back then.

My first PC (in the sense as we know PCs today) was a Leading Edge 8MHz 8086 CPU with 1MB of RAM, two 5.25" floppy drives and no hard drive! It originally had a Hercules monochrome video adapter (that was eventually upgraded to a CGA adapter/monitor that could display four colors (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_Graphics_Adapter))with which I played a lot of BASICA/GW-BASIC games that we'd pick up from the public domain bin at the local computer shop. The games cost was only that of the medium, so they were fairly cheap. I'd spend all of my weekly allowance everytime I had enough to buy a new game. It was heavenly.

I never really kicked that habit.

[alexsan]

My first PC was the Compaq Presario 425, the most unupgradable son of a ****ing bitch known unto man.

I did learn a lot from it though and it introduced me to so many things. Doom, Heretic, Floppy disks, Dos and Windows 3.1, BBSes, the internet... :)

486 SX 25, 4 megs of ram, 200 meg HD, 2400 baud modem.



http://home.valornet.com/rj/presario425.jpg
thats what I had. good times, goooooooood times