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Posted by satchmo on Wed Jun 29th at 10:55pm 2005

Yeah, I remember the days of PCTools and small utilities to park your HDD's heads.

How many here at the Pit can still edit a CONFIG.SYS file?




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Posted by Rof on Thu Jun 30th at 2:25am 2005

1983. A ZX Spectrum 48K, with a 3.5 MHz Z80 CPU.

In the words of MJ Hibbert, "It made a generation / who can code".


Would you believe I still use a vintage 1984 IBM PC/AT every day? It's the only machine we have that's compatible with some old lab equipment.



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Posted by fraggard on Thu Jun 30th at 3:26am 2005

A commodore vic 20 is the oldest and earliest machine I have ever used.

First machine I could use regularly was (probably) an Intel 386 running at 32Mhz, and then I think we were already eyeing the 486.

By the time I could afford one at home it was already the Pentium 2 generation. I used that one till about 2003 before it became throughly obsolete and nothing would run on it anymore. HL used to play brilliantly though.




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Posted by SaintGreg on Thu Jun 30th at 3:45am 2005

Mac plus also! I don't remember any of the games we had, but I remember that as a kid (I was like 5 at the time) it was fun as hell.



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Posted by G.Ballblue on Thu Jun 30th at 7:47pm 2005

? quoting Forceflow

MS-Dos

The ultimate operating system. Or whatever it was.




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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Fri Jul 1st at 5:38am 2005

I have no idea what the specs were, but the first computer my family owned was this old macintosh that i could play "maniac mansion" on in black and white after installing with those huge floppy disks...




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Posted by LAzerMANiac on Sat Jul 2nd at 3:13am 2005

Huh, let's see... Back in Russia, we had two computers, a 386 with a hand-made 28-K modem courtesy of mu genius gramps, and another one that was advanced enough to run Quake I. I beleive that was way back in 1996. FidoNet was way more popular back then and it took half an hour to load up the Furby homepage (I was 7 back then). *snif* those were the days... MY first PC in the US of A was an AMD-K6 with 64MB of ram and a whole 3.17 GB of HDD space. It even had a 16x CDROM... The soundcard for that thing I found in the garbage one time, but it serves me even today. In my family computers never trully die at once, they get slowly dissolved, with the worst parts being passed down to the younger person as newer parts get installed, so most of what I mentioned above is either at my youngest brother's disposal, or undergoing disposal. I actually made the K6 CPU into a keychain...



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Posted by Myrk- on Sat Jul 2nd at 12:29pm 2005

Had an Amiga, used to play all those old sk00l games with Lep, both of us would cram around its insanely large keyboard. Then we had a 286, and so on.




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Posted by Senshi on Sat Jul 2nd at 12:43pm 2005

Oooh this takes me back, must have been 1992 or something, Mesh 486 with a stonking 16mB RAM. Got upgraded to a P133 as soon as they came out whenever that was. Wow, played some great DOS games on that baby I tell ya <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">



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Posted by Fjorn on Sat Jul 2nd at 1:28pm 2005

My first comp?

Some DOS box with a green screen, no sound

spent lots of hours playing(and cursing) Zork :P



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Posted by Forceflow on Mon Jul 4th at 3:57pm 2005

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Yeah, I remember the days of PCTools and small utilities to park your HDD's heads. How many here at the Pit can still edit a CONFIG.SYS file?


/me !



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