My first computer was...

[Robocop]

You were before your time, my friend.

Yahoo is trying to bring it back. Check out this year's CES.

[rynosaur]

Commodore 64, 1541 (?) 5 1/4" Floppy Disk Drive, and an RF modulator hook up to the family 13" Color TV for Christmas 1984.

Good times!

(I'll quit before I inordinately excite Kommie

[DaYuMu6ft7]

You were before your time, my friend.

Yahoo is trying to bring it back. Check out this year's CES.

Are you serious, I'm about to check it out....

It's funny, I was never computer savvy

But of course me being 37... I remember back in the early 80's using Apple computers in grade school.

*Off Topic: Go Eagles!!!

[Robocop]

Yeah, I'm 37 as well and computers in the school was a big deal for us. We actually had a private company come in and teach the courses. Now you can't go to school if you don't have a laptop.
Back to Yahoo... they are partnering up with a bunch of companies to intergrate your web and tv experience by putting a whole bunch of widgets in your LCD Tv's. It looks pretty nifty, actually.

[LGSilva]

My uncle had an XT with the green screen but we only got a computer when it was an advanced machine: 386 sx 25mhz orange hercules screen...

[DaYuMu6ft7]

Yeah, I'm 37 as well and computers in the school was a big deal for us. We actually had a private company come in and teach the courses. Now you can't go to school if you don't have a laptop.
Back to Yahoo... they are partnering up with a bunch of companies to intergrate your web and tv experience by putting a whole bunch of widgets in your LCD Tv's. It looks pretty nifty, actually.

Robo, I can't find the article, maybe I'm typing in the wrong info..

Can you send me a "keyword"

[Jood]

My dad had a few of the Sinclair ZX (you say it the British way Zed-ecks) Spectrums. I grew up around computers, you would think I would know more about code and such, but I'm more into playing games... I'm such a slacker...

We had the thermal printer and all that good stuff...

The programs all loaded off of audio cassettes, we had to plug in a tape player for it. I remember the awesome (psychedelic, now that I think about it) loading screens.

By the time I got my own Spectrum ZX+2 for christmas one year, the tape player was integrated and I had an awesome gun that you could fire at the TV screen. I had a duck hunting game and a James Bond game that used the gun. Ahh, the memories.

I never used the computer for anything other than games, so mostly I just remember games. I loved Chucky Egg, it is an all-time favorite. There was one called Manic Miner, and another that I think was called Quasimodo (not sure, but you were rescuing a girl called Esmerelda, so I think that was it.) OH!! and one where you were kids and you had to find the other one and get somewhere safe so the giant Ants don't eat you...

I could go on forever, we had some 400 cassettes with games and other programs on them... My computer is still ticking, but it's in the U.K. and I'm not... I couldn't think of a way to bring it over to TX and still have it work... although I would love to do it...

Sorry for the long post, but I enjoyed the memories, thanks to the OP for starting this thread.

Jood <><

[remister]

...that I owned?
TI-86, those graphing calculators are freaking like smartphones without radios. I wondered why TI never got into the mobile phone scene.

[cabochon]

Mid-90s, my cousins got a new computer so they gave us their 386. I don't remember the specs (I was just a kid after all), but I played a lot of Tetris and Wolfenstein 3D from floppies booted in MS-DOS. It had Windows 3.1, which was useful for Rodent's Revenge, drawing pictures in paint, and printing reports for school.

[v1nce]

Commodore C64 !

the best game play ever (old school)