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I'm 34... And I'm a dinasaur
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ranmaniac
Golden Member
I'm 29, and pretty much remember everything the OP has mentioned. Unfortunately, I never had a C64, but I did get to mess around with my dad's Compaq I when he brought it home from work. We had a Texas Instruments Home Computer, but it sucked cause my parents wouldn't get any games for it.
First gaming console was an Intellivison, used to play a Poker, Nightstalker, Astrosmash, Tennis, BurgerTime etc.
Had the Sears "brand" of the Atari 2600, Telegames it was called I think, and I still have a case load of old Atari games in storage.
My first home computer was a 286 with 3.5" 1.44mb and a 5.25" drive, used to play 688 Attack Sub, and got a King's Quest V for it.
First gaming console was an Intellivison, used to play a Poker, Nightstalker, Astrosmash, Tennis, BurgerTime etc.
Had the Sears "brand" of the Atari 2600, Telegames it was called I think, and I still have a case load of old Atari games in storage.
My first home computer was a 286 with 3.5" 1.44mb and a 5.25" drive, used to play 688 Attack Sub, and got a King's Quest V for it.
TehMac
Diamond Member
I'm 1* and I agree with you completely. I never had a TV in my house, still don't. I still am tech minded, but I'm not some fat phrump sitting on his fatass all day. I always had to deal with my problems by myself, and never bothered my "mommy".
I work out and get on with the girls, but I still am tied to the geekiness that is ATF.
ultimatebob
Lifer
That's all cool, but did you have a Shortwave radio and Reel To Reel tape player to play with growing up? Now those were some cool retro geek toys.
50cent1228
Platinum Member
r u serious
When I was a kid (circa 1990).
1. The Intarweb... did not exist in the country and neither I nor anyone I knew was aware of its existance.
2. Computers... I knew they existed and could do something, but that's pretty much it. The only computers in the country were Apple II clones named after the Party Chief's hometown, Pravetz
3. VCRs... these things did not exist.
4. We had a Soviet Leica-clone called a "Zenit".
5. Our phone had pulse dialing, bells and wistles and despite living in the capital and the largest city, our number was 6 digits long.
6. CDs ... these did not exist. We had a JVC boombox from 1980, which my dad purchased at great expense from CORECOM - store where one could only shop using foreign currency. Non-party members could not shop there often, as they would promptly get a visit from the police inquiring about the source of foreign currency.
7. I had a rich friend who's family lived in Libiya for a short while in the late 80s. He had an atari 2600 that we all marveled at.
8. My school did not have anything approaching electronics.
9. My parents lined up outside of the Central Universal Store for 3 days so they could buy a state-of-the-art East German made 18" TV that cost a month's salary.
10. There were 2 channels. "Kanal 1", the main state channel, ran 4pm-12am while "Efir 2" ran 6-9pm, though a bit longer (3-9pm) on sundays. Cable and satellite TV did not exist.
11. We had a woodfire stove. My dad used to be a fire inspector at a window-making plant, where he could get lots of "free" firewood for the winter. Central heating did not exist until 1995.
12. My family had a Moskvich. Its 1500cc engine could not have possibly exceeded 50hp. It broke down frequently, but because it was simplier than today's lawnmowers, my dad could fix everything on it.
13. As fruits and veggies were not available during the winter, we had to buy everything in bulk when it was in season, then cook it, can it and store it in the basement for the winter.
I may be 23, but I grew in a place that lagged technologically so much, it probably sounds familiar to those who grew up in early 1950s America. 😉
1. The Intarweb... did not exist in the country and neither I nor anyone I knew was aware of its existance.
2. Computers... I knew they existed and could do something, but that's pretty much it. The only computers in the country were Apple II clones named after the Party Chief's hometown, Pravetz
3. VCRs... these things did not exist.
4. We had a Soviet Leica-clone called a "Zenit".
5. Our phone had pulse dialing, bells and wistles and despite living in the capital and the largest city, our number was 6 digits long.
6. CDs ... these did not exist. We had a JVC boombox from 1980, which my dad purchased at great expense from CORECOM - store where one could only shop using foreign currency. Non-party members could not shop there often, as they would promptly get a visit from the police inquiring about the source of foreign currency.
7. I had a rich friend who's family lived in Libiya for a short while in the late 80s. He had an atari 2600 that we all marveled at.
8. My school did not have anything approaching electronics.
9. My parents lined up outside of the Central Universal Store for 3 days so they could buy a state-of-the-art East German made 18" TV that cost a month's salary.
10. There were 2 channels. "Kanal 1", the main state channel, ran 4pm-12am while "Efir 2" ran 6-9pm, though a bit longer (3-9pm) on sundays. Cable and satellite TV did not exist.
11. We had a woodfire stove. My dad used to be a fire inspector at a window-making plant, where he could get lots of "free" firewood for the winter. Central heating did not exist until 1995.
12. My family had a Moskvich. Its 1500cc engine could not have possibly exceeded 50hp. It broke down frequently, but because it was simplier than today's lawnmowers, my dad could fix everything on it.
13. As fruits and veggies were not available during the winter, we had to buy everything in bulk when it was in season, then cook it, can it and store it in the basement for the winter.
I may be 23, but I grew in a place that lagged technologically so much, it probably sounds familiar to those who grew up in early 1950s America. 😉
I'm 19, and the first comp I ever used was my dad's Tandy 1000 with a whopping 30MB hard drive. We even had a dot matrix printer 🙂
The first comp I could call my own was a Celeron 300A OC'ed to 450MHz, with a Diamond Voodoo Banshee 16MB AGP vid card and 64MB of RAM. That rocked back then 😛
The first comp I could call my own was a Celeron 300A OC'ed to 450MHz, with a Diamond Voodoo Banshee 16MB AGP vid card and 64MB of RAM. That rocked back then 😛
RossMAN
Grand Nagus
Back in my day we didn't have (fast) computers, the intarweb or HBO on demand. The 80's were an awesome time to be a kid. These days every kid has a cell phone, AIM handle, MySpace page and website.
My days were spent terrorizing the neighborhood, at the city park or getting into trouble at school.
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