Remember the days...

[KnightOfNi]

I was remembering the early days of gaming on my Acorn electron then on a ZX spectrum, then a commodore 64.
Which computers have you played on ?

------------------
Ni !

 

[BlueMonday]

I remember the days when computers didn't have hard drives, and 60KB RAM was the newest thing. That was the first computer my father bought. When I was sixteen I bought a computer: a Pentium II 266 with a 6 GB Hard drive and 32MB RAM. It wasn't bad, but I got rid of it a year ago for this one.

------------------
<IMG SRC="http://forums.civfanatics.com/image_uploads/goodbye3.jpg" border=0>
<FONT COLOR="blue">I take every day one beer at a time; every beer one sip at a time.</FONT c>

 

[CornMaster]

Ahhhhhh yes. My Tandy RX 1000HD. A 8088 processor running at screaming 4.77 MHz, 21 MB hard drive, CGA display with a 12 inch screen, DOS 3.3, 720 k floppy drive, 640 kb RAM.....ah yes....those were the days.

My older sister still uses that computer. <IMG SRC="http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/wink.gif" border=0>

Edit: Remembered the model name.

------------------
<IMG SRC="http://images.honesty.com/imagedata/h/207/85/32078598.gif" border=0> I AM CANADIAN! <IMG SRC="http://images.honesty.com/imagedata/h/207/85/32078598.gif" border=0>
CivFanatics Moderator and Tech Support
CivFanatics Civ 2 Ladder
My Civ 2 Scenario Page.

[This message has been edited by CornMaster (edited June 19, 2001).]

 

[Leowind]

My experience doesn't go quite as far back as you guys, but I remember my second year of college being so excited along with the entire computer science department when we got an entire lab of brand new Commodore 64's. They were so cool!! First computer I owned was an Atari (forget the model #) with like 560k RAM, soon replaced with the 1Meg model, which was soooo much memory

 

[weimar_republic]

I remember some kinda star-treck game on the commadore... and then some kinda castle building game with moats and walls.... but I was 4 at the time, does anyone know what I am talking about? I want these games again.

 

[Lefty Scaevola]

Ah, yes, I remember my Archimedes 84 that I got before Ceasar's day to keep tarck of my real estate empire. 84 slaves: 16 Persians with abbaci to do computations; 16 Phonician with wax tables to keep tack of current calculations; 32 greek scribs for permenamt records and output; 16 nimble Spaniards for messages in and out; And four Numidians to with palm fans to cool them off.

 

[SlowwHand]

and a partridge in a pear tree.

------------------
It's In The Way That You Use It
Tuatha De Danann Tribe
ICQ 51553293

 

[goodbye_mr_bond]

My father was one of the original computer nerds (still unretired and earning oodles of cash servicing the mainframes no one knows how to use anymore...) so we held out for the first 'real' home computer--the Commodore Vic 20. Okay, it wasn't really the first, but it was the first one that was user-friendly.

We upgraded to the 64 as soon as it came out. I still remember playing Ultima II, and my fav: Mail-Order Monsters. There was a Mario-type game called Spelunker that was WAY ahead of its time too.

We didn't get the floppy drive until later, so everything was loaded from tape. It was like: Hit "load" then go make yourself a sandwich.

Did I mention I used to walk 20 miles to school in the snow every morning?