Where it all began

[TDK1044]

If you want a good laugh, go here and check out where it all began. Look at the specs. Even Neal's rig can run this game! :)

http://www.uboat.cz/down/sim/shmanual.pdf

[Letum]

I wonder how many instances I would have to run to use all of my cores
and RAM to 100%...

[TDK1044]

I love the reference to Windows 95 users......Did that OS really exist? I thought it was a figment of my imagination. :)

[Letum]

I still use win95 on one of my older machines.
It's not bad apart from the limited resolution.
All it does now is host a few networked drives, but it does it well.

[TDK1044]

I still use win95 on one of my older machines.
It's not bad apart from the limited resolution.
All it does now is host a few networked drives, but it does it well.


Wow. Very cool. My introduction to Windows was Windows 98 which was less than impressive. I liked 2000 and I really like XP. I'm staying away from Vista, and I'll be purchasing a Laptop with 7 as the OS at the end of the year.

[AVGWarhawk]

My real intro was 98. Love 98 and did not mess with 2000 or ME. I was leary of XP and held on to 98 until the day MS said there was no more support. Bummer. Run Vista now. I like Vista a lot. The game that started it all for me was Janes WWII flight sim.

[ReallyDedPoet]

The game that started it all for me was Janes WWII flight sim.

Fast Attack for me :yep: Though I am sure I played some old Atari Sub Game when I was a kid :hmmm:

I never could get SH1 to work so I shelved it :doh:

[Raptor1]

My first Windows computer had Windows 3.11, followed by Windows 95, then Windows 98 SE, then XP

Now I use Vista 64, which I don't much like and will replace with Windows 7 as soon as it's out and stable, probably

[Freiwillige]

Dos 5.0 and windows 3.11 was my begining on a $4,500 486dx33. Thats 33 Mhz for those not in the know!

First game was X-wing fighter. using only a mouse and without sound ! finally blew up the dreaded death star!

[Jimbuna]

Win95 and a superfast Pentium 133MHz with 1.5GB HD.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__-2xERuIE_c/RkbKeurkRoI/AAAAAAAAAZ8/JsaBidhVcuM/s320/intel-inside-idiot-outside.jpg

Had every Windows OS since and sticking with XP Pro until I've no alternative but to change.

[JSLTIGER]

The first machine I used was my grandfather's when I was two...

IBM PC XT
4.77MHz Intel 8088
256KB RAM
20MB HDD
5.25" Floppy
EGA graphics

Windows? HA! DOS was it...well, that and BASICA.

The first computer that we had at home was a $3K+ beast in 1994. My dad and grandfather both bought one of these at the same time.

Intel Pentium 100MHz
16MB RAM
1.2GB HDD (World's first 1GB+ HDD)
4X TEAC CD-ROM
5.25" Floppy
3.5" Floppy

It came with Windows 3.11 (I still remember having to enter the "win" command in DOS to get into it), which we later upgraded to Windows 95. Since then I've had machines with 95, 98, 98SE, XP, Vista32, Vista64, and 7 (Beta).

[NeonSamurai]

My first IBM pc (not first pc though) was the original grandaddy the IBM-XT, and first subsim was Gato. I think it ran dos 2.x or 3.x, i forget now. I eventualy went to MS DOS 6.22 then every flavor of windows I've used at one point or another (including the server os's like NT).

[SteamWake]

My first exposure to operating systems were MSDOS and Pickles and Trout.

No seriously Pickels & Trout

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80

Had one of those neatly stowed away in my parents attic, thought maybe someday it maybe worth something. They threw it out when they sold the house :doh:

[CaptainHaplo]

My first pc was an old 8088 booting from dos 2 point something or other. It had 2 floppy disk drives vs the "standard" one. Few people around now remember that b is a valid drive letter!

First games were pretty much all from Microprose - Lightspeed, the original Silent Service (you had to boot that one), M1 tank platoon, F117, etc etc. I played alot of shareware titles back then as well, Hack, Mines of Moria, etc. Even had a few SSI games. Of course, elite was in there (that game was hard with just keyboard controls!)

I skipped the 286, 386 and 486 personally, though I did work with them. Went straight to a Pentium when they came out and had Win95, set it up to dual boot into dos 6.22 - had all kinds of problems with that machine initially because the sound board was an off brand Mad Dog 16 (SB16 compatible). Finally got it running to play MOO, MOM and a SS2.

[magic452]

My first rig was a Atari 512K RAM 2 floppies and no hard drive. Played Silent Service and F-16 on it, I still have it and it runs. Got a 5MB hard drive for it and it's bigger than a shoe box and weights about 10 pounds.

First pc was was a 486x33 but I must have stole it at only $2,900.00. 3.11 as well. Went to Win. 95 and 98 before going to XP, still there.

Magic

[Schroeder]

My first rig was a Commodore C64.
The first PC we had was a Pentium 100Mhz with a 1GB hard drive. (Duke Nukem 3D and Silent Hunter ran smoothly on it:D).

[Geno_Mariner]

My first rig was a Commodore C64.
The first PC we had was a Pentium 100Mhz with a 1GB hard drive. (Duke Nukem 3D and Silent Hunter ran smoothly on it:D).

I had a C64 for a first computer too :D Boy I miss playing all those fun games :88)

First PC... I can't quite recall... actually I think we never got ourselves a PC for the family until I got my Compaq Presario years later. 98 was the OS I had on it. And it ran pretty well, I even played Unreal Tournament on it (tho it had a few lags when I was respawning, I always went Sniper in it :yeah:)
I was forced to share my Compaq until my 2nd bro and mum finally got their own.
Then my first XP was my crappy Dell Dimension 2400 (with a craptastic 128MB RAM) :dead: It completely and utterly killed my inspirations I get for art. It made a return with the arrival of my new computer, a Medion with 2GB RAM :D Now I'm playing all games that never operated properly on Dell with full power. (and whipping up a lot of digital arts too, all tablet drawn).
(btw I'm on XP Pro now, my first XP was a Home edition) And I had been on iMacs at my old schools. IMB's at my last school..
So I've been on quite a few coms, lol.


Alright, quite enough of my rambling :doh: I'm gonna go and check on my nation :arrgh!: and get my revenge on a soldier who shot me in the arse in Operation Flashpoint.

[Platapus]

This was my first computer.

1.5 k of memory. I was the big kid on the block :yeah:

http://oldcomputers.net/trs80pc1.html

[Geno_Mariner]

This was my first computer.

1.5 k of memory. I was the big kid on the block :yeah:

http://oldcomputers.net/trs80pc1.html

I think my 2nd bro had a similar computer to that. I remember playing with it when he wasn't using it, lol

[OneToughHerring]

My first comp was Spectravideo MSX 728 back in the 80's. Then C64 and eventually a PC.

[Onkel Neal]

If you want a good laugh, go here and check out where it all began. Look at the specs. Even Neal's rig can run this game! :)

http://www.uboat.cz/down/sim/shmanual.pdf

Hey! I represent that remark :haha:



The first machine I used was my grandfather's when I was two...


The first computer that we had at home was a $3K+ beast in 1994. My dad and grandfather both bought one of these at the same time.

Intel Pentium 100MHz
16MB RAM
1.2GB HDD (World's first 1GB+ HDD)
4X TEAC CD-ROM
5.25" Floppy
3.5" Floppy



Yeah, that one is similar to my first Pentium, got mine in 1995.

My intro to comupters was a TRS-80, OS was Basic. You had to load the program onto the computer with a cassette recorder. It took about 6 minutes, almost as long as it takes a netbook to load Windows Vista today :D Hard drive? What's a hard drive??

I also had a Timex Sinclair, but it was not user friendly, and data entry was a chore with the flat keyboard :shifty:

I went for a while without a computer in the 80s, but my buddy had several so I would buy games (Blue Max, 688 Attack Sub, Das Boot, Silent Service) and play them at his house. When we got Windows 3.1 at the plant, I got back into them.

Man, those were the days!

[Platapus]

I remember in college having to take a data entry class that involved punch cards :o

[Jimbuna]

I remember in college having to take a data entry class that involved punch cards :o

Me too :oops:

[HunterICX]

My fist computer was a MS-Dos one,
my Fist windows experience was with Windows 95 on a
65 Mhz CPU
8 Mb Ram
4 Mb Video card
computer, and did I think that was a mayor improvement :D

HunterICX

[Arclight]

First PC I owned myself was a Pentium 100MHZ, but had been playing PC games at a friend long before that. Still have a Commodore and 1 or 2 386 in "storage" (my bedroom). All started with Flight Simulator and Duke Nukem 3D I think. :hmmm:

[Task Force]

my first pc was a windows 95. got it from a old computer store in the late 90s.:yep: