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Onkel Neal 05-09-09 12:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TDK1044 (Post 1097272)
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:



Quote:

Originally Posted by JSLTIGER (Post 1097489)
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 05-09-09 06:04 PM

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

Jimbuna 05-10-09 08:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Platapus (Post 1098565)
I remember in college having to take a data entry class that involved punch cards :o

Me too :oops:

HunterICX 05-10-09 08:49 AM

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 05-10-09 01:14 PM

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 05-10-09 02:09 PM

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


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