Thats what a system II did, minus the need for a " clean " room, System II used tape drives, but they loaed into a HUGH drive slot and were never exposed to the " outside ". You gotta love the old punch cards.:lol:

Oregon Trail, what a fun game even on the old green screens. I would like to find that game again to play it for fun.

quote:fecbd967c5 Also I remember 1st through the 6th grade playing Oregon Trail (didn't mean to trigger any tears)! [/quote:fecbd967c5]
Oh hell...that brings back old memories. Oregon Trail was the first computer game that I ever played.

Our first computer was a used Apple 2 that didn't quite work right. When it finally died 6 months after we got it, we didn't have another computer until 1999 when I used the old, "But dad, I have to have a computer for my English class!" So he bought us a cheap-o Compaq running Windows 98 on a 555MHz AMD chip with a whopping 128MB of RAM.

Once I couldnt put up with that crappy paper-weight, I bought myself a Dell Inspiron 5150. I've been meaning to retire it for a new Core 2 Duo rig...but lack of funds causes me to keep putting it off.

I didn't even really know that much about computers until I was around eight. An old school one, obviously, it had a floppy drive inside the key board with a whopping 128K of Ram. Man that thing was a beast! No hard drive too. Such a sick ass computer. I remember playing old games like Wings on that thing, such a good WWI game. Oh and some star trek game we had lying around, it was soooo cool. You got to be the captain of the enterprise a in that game and it took TWO floppies to run! Man that was cool, I think it beats a lot of new sci-fi games to this day, but I cant find it anymore and have no idea what the name was again.
Anyhow when I turned 9 I took it apart and got my dad to teach me everything I know today! I loved the good old days, especially when DOS finally came out!

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Boy, just reading this stuff brings back some memories. My first was a Commodore 64.
You could plunk in your 5 1/4 floppy and start loading, run out and cook a five course
meal and come back and by then you were ready to go. They were pretty slow. I got it
in 1983. In the summer of 1985 the mobo got fried due to a power surge. I then bought a
Commodore 128. I still have it packed away with a boat load of software. I started thinking
about moving up to a PC about the time of the new revolutionary 286 processor. The main thing that prevented me from doing so, was that the technological evolutionary process was evolving faster than my pay check, so I just stood back and waited for
things to stabilize a bit. Anyway, I remember some of the forerunners to todays RPGs.
Games like Transylvania and its sequel Crimson Crown. Anyone remember Lode Runner ? It was an arcade game in its original incarnation as was Frogger that I saw mentioned. As for all that age stuff, I don't know what to say, except that my mind and
my body are in two different age groups and my body is quick to remind me off that at times. coastie65

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i've only been on a computer continually since 1996 or so, when my mother got a decent comp with a dial-up connection. i don't even remember what OS it had to the specs (pardon my idocity with such things!) i think it had Windows 3.1.

waaay back, when i was 4 or 5 (would have been 1984ish) we had a computer like thingie that was pretty much a keyboard that plugged into the TV.

i remember the first real computer we got, i was something like 11 or 12 (1991ish?). it had just DOS. no harddrive. everything needed a boot disc to work. those five inch floppy floppy discs. i remember we had only a few things for it... Pacman, some ninja game, some Bugs Bunny game, and a drawing program (all in fabulous spectrum of sixteen colours) yeah, it was pretty much useless.

i didn't start really living my life on a comp (and online) until after i got my own place, four years or so. now i just spend way too much time on this thing. you mean there's a world out there? but... the world is in there *points to tower*!

i love my computer because my friends live in it <3

My first computer was a $1500 Tandy 1000. It had an 8-bit 7.16 MHz CPU, two 5-1/4" floppy drives (no hard drive), 640k of RAM, and could put out a whopping 16 colors on a Tandy CGA monitor. Later, when I started my college programming courses (FORTRAN, BASIC, COBOL, Assembly, and Pascal... all on a huge VAX computer which took up a large portion of the school's computer lab), I added two 20MB hardcards, which made it a real powerhouse. I also added a copyboard which allowed me to make backup copies of the latest copy protected Sierra games (King's Quest and Space Quest series).

Apart from playing games, or writing really stupid programs, there wasn't a whole lot to do with a computer, so I became a DOS guru... an awe inspiring achievement of the time. I could do things with a .bat file that would have lesser geeks gasping in wonderment. I had people calling me at all times of the day for help with such complex issues as getting rid of viruses, how to install a new game (auto install programs didn't exist then, unless you wrote your own), or how to get to a game directory from the root directory.
:roll: :lol:

There were no Internet browsers (or Windows) then. My first online experiences (with my second computer) were with Prodigy, Usenet messaging boards, and local BBS boards (I even had my own for a very short time, until I found that it was a real hassle to keep up with). It was interesting, but I don't really yearn for the good old days.

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