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I do. it was an Atari 400 and it had a horrible membrane keyboard. it was just a membrane underneath a printed plastic sheet. you had to mash pretty hard to type on it. I mostly used it for games though. meanwhile my dad had a 1200XL I think. of course it had basic and I tried learning to program, but my child brain couldn’t get much further than typing in listings from Antic magazine. I think I managed to get one game to work that way. I had plenty of cartridge games and I still like to play some of them in emulation! what was yours? any fond memories?
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My first computer was a BBC Micro model B and I often wonder how much better my life would have been if my parents had not made me travel down this dark path https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2knYNDNKfY
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my dad was a computer toucher at Bull and when I was little when he got back from work he would tell me "I asked my computer if you have been nice" and since the french word for computer (ordinateur) sounds a little like radiateur I would picture my dad standing in front of a radiator and asking it questions then when I was 7 my dad bought a to7/70 which came with a drawing program using the lightpen and that's the first thing we tried at this point it became clear that a computer wasn't a radiator but something that lets you draw on the telly
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Jan 27, 2020 18:37
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oh yeah! I had AtariArtist and the touch tablet. It was fun to play with, for a child
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Jan 27, 2020 18:44
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does a speak n spell count as a computer op
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Jan 27, 2020 20:09
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yes and i still have it apple //gs, christmas '87
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Jan 27, 2020 20:14
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heres an old pic of me hacking com satellites  
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Jan 27, 2020 20:14
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Mine was a IIci named Bookend and I still have it. Every time I get rid of a computer I regret it later.
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mine was some DEC terminal that could do nothing but type out a screen of text, unless you connected it to a phone line and dialed in
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Jan 27, 2020 20:24
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Jan 27, 2020 20:34
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i had a ti99/4a and i saved the programs i wrote on a cassette tape.
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Jan 27, 2020 21:06
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My dad's laptop with Lego Island on it
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Jan 27, 2020 21:08
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i remember the 20th of september, op
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Jan 27, 2020 21:11
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commodore 64. it was a classic and i had a ton of fun learning on that thing as a kid. my first pc was a 286 computer but i don't remember much about it. second was a 486 "headstart" computer which had a 1x cd-rom with a caddy. looked a bit like this: 
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Jan 27, 2020 21:12
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computers are so boring now that everything is part of the same standard ecosystem it was much cooler when every new computer had its own operating system and completely incompatible hardware architecture
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r u ready to WALK posted:computers are so boring now that everything is part of the same standard ecosystem yeah when i discovered BBSes i reasoned that * terminal software existed for apple // platform * modems were just serial devices * my gs had a serial port my dad did not believe that i could buy this external modem out of the back of computer shopper and then buy a cable out of the back of macworld magazine or w/e and hook it up and have it work. i had to wager him the cost of the modem and cable and pay it back via lawn mowing if i was wrong. i was right
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I remember my parents coming home with a Gateway 2000 with windows 95 on it from Best Buy or Circuit City and my brother being really excited, but me, being a dumb kid, thinking it was pointless because I couldn't play Donkey Kong Country on it. But I eventually came to love it when one of my uncles introduced me to Warcraft 2.
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Jonny 290 posted:yeah when i discovered BBSes i reasoned that there was a local bbs that was run by a rich kid and was just filled with teens doing multi-line chat (the guy had like 10+ phone lines) hooking up, bullshitting, and buying/selling drugs to each other. there was a girl who was still dialing in with an atari ST until 1997-ish when the BBS shut down because her parents wouldn't let her get a PC.
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i had a tandy with a sick amber crt and mathrabbit
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The first computer in our house was a Commodore 64 that we borrowed from my grandfather to help him with genealogy research. After that we didn't get another computer until mom brought home a Macintosh Performa 405 for us to use "for school".
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my first computer was my brain op.
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Jan 27, 2020 23:38
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are brains really computers? computers: good a math, tend to make beeps brains: notoriously bad at math, generally silent i say 'no.'
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hmmmm.... ...... my bio-computational analysis seems to suggest that you are wrong. most illogical.....
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Jan 27, 2020 23:48
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rotor posted:are brains really computers? hot wet fatty computer, hell yeah
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my brsin computer is super smooth. makes it compute faster. if i smell enough gasoline it feels like hitting the turbo button
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rotor posted:are brains really computers? I like this reasoning
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Yes OP it was a QOMPAQ386 that I dismantled completely once as a kid because the monitor wasn't turning on and it was because the VGA cable wasn't screwed in and came loose but I learned how to build a PC that day.
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my first compooper was some Macintosh SE that must've been the last black and white version, cuz I remember using a colored Mac SE in elementary school a year or two later. i mostly remember the "Uh Oh!" from crashes
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that was the last time i ever used a mouse on the left side of the keyboard
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gently caress SNEEP posted:that was the last time i ever used a mouse on the left side of the keyboard my experience was very different
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hell yeah i do it was the Epson Equity ii a offbrand 80186 clone that my dad snaked the 20mb HDD out of and just left me with floppies 
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It was a dell i386-SX with DOS 6.2 and Windows 3.11. GORRILAS.BAS for life (and Commander Keen)
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Heck yes. My first machine that was actually my own and not my dad's was a 486 DX2 66. It had DOS and Windows, a TURBO button and some sweet floppy drives, plus I think a CD Rom drive too. And a QUANTUM FIREBALL hard disk with something like 800 MEGABYTES of available space (that's as many as eighty tens. You could put like 500 floppies worth of stuff on there and have space left over!) I miss my turbo button. I used to turn it off for some games because they couldn't handle my super fast machine and would become unplayably fast. I think all PCs nowadays should come with a turbo button that, even if it doesn't affect the speed of your machine, makes some sort of afterburner noise when you press it and maybe adds a motion blur effect around the edges of your screen.
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President Beep posted:my experience was very different 
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Atari 800 chonking cassettes into that thing was so satisfying also lol sneip your first computer was a printer
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lord funk posted:Atari 800 i did have a printer but it was not even an epson lol it was uuh, microline 9? or something?
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Mine was a vic-20. I remember how awesome it was when I got the Programmer's Reference Guide for my 11th B-day, along with the game "Snake Byte". I made so many stupid BASIC games once I learned how to do graphics.
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a TI-99/4A that my mom bought used at work for my older sister
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