what is your oldest computer memory?

[yokomo]

I rember palying burger time on the apple ][c at the libary in like 85 or 86'ish...


[edit]Oh man I forgot all about the C64 wow now that was way back....

 

[Azuen]

I vageuly remember playing some weird time travel game on what I believe were Acorn computers.

 

[mugs]

I have some 1 MB 30 pin SIMMs

Edit: err... Apple IIe
Edit: No, IIgs, playing some baseball game

 

[Nohr]

I remember playing Oregon Trail and Lemonade Stand on a C64 back when I was in elementary school in the late 80s. They were also teaching us BASIC. I knew how to make my name print across the screen over and over and over!

 

[robertcloud]

Gorrillas and Snake in QBASIC on a Tandy 386 when I was 3 years old. That thing cost us 2,000 too.

 

[Wallydraigle]

I remember filling a screen with "t"s in a store when I was four-ish, about 82.

 

[FoBoT]

programming a gas milage calculator for the Commodore PET computers in ninth grade
and
stopping at the local radio shack after school and playing hangman on the TRS-80

those computers had 16Kb of RAM and cassette tape drives

that was 1979-1980

 

[markgm]

Originally posted by: mugs
I have some 1 MB 30 pin SIMMs

Edit: err... Apple IIe

You almost got an answer like that from me .

My first computer my parents got was in 1979, a Sony SMC-70. I remember when I was in Jr. High I was talking to a girl on the phone and just randomly hitting the keys (I couldn't type at all) to make it seem like I was good with computers. It didn't work, looking back 12 years later, the only thing that happened was I became good with computers.

 

[imported_malcontent]

Typing in the basic program code on my Tandy Model 1.
No hard drive, no floppy drive, no tape drive... Want to run a program? Type in the basic code with no typos, and go for it.

I finally got a tape drive, and thought I was on top of the world.. This was '81

 

[mobobuff]

I, too, remember the lemonade stand and Oregon Trail on the C64. I think that's as far back as I can reach.

 

[Skunkwourk]

memorizing my config.sys and autoexec.bat settings just to play games that needed 640k ram.

and LOGO on the apple machines.

 

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by: Nohr
Lemonade Stand

awesome game

 

[nageov3t]

Oregon Trail.

it used to be my favorite game, because I actually travelled between Oregon and the East Coast by car several times

 

[Aves]

When we got an external HD for our Mac Plus.

 

[CarlKillerMiller]

Oregon trail on an Apple II

 

[markgm]

Oregon Trail...that reminds me of the Apple Lab my school had. I can hear the startup sound of the disk drive (tick-ah tick-ah...) almost as good as I remember the sound of my first Epson!

 

[cavemanmoron]

1974
played Star Trek on a computer hub hooked up from my High school
to State University of NY @ Albany.

it used a teletype,and had a paper punch memory tape.

When the program crashed it was a majot pain to wait for it to go back online.

 

[ktehmok]

Originally posted by: cavemanmoron
1974
played Star Trek on a computer hub hooked up from my High school
to State University of NY @ Albany.

it used a teletype,and had a paper punch memory tape.

When the program crashed it was a majot pain to wait for it to go back online.

You win

 

[JEDI]

Writing DOS and selling it to Gates for a song

 

[shilala]

I remember going on a field trip to Clarion University to see the *AAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaa* computer lab.
The place was full of shyt that looked like ditto machines. The white lab coat clad geek who was in charge explained that these little cards got a bunch of holes punched in them, got run through the ditto-looking thing, and then something special happened. The holes ended up on those big things on the wall with the reel to reel tape.
I think that was the very first time I thought "big fvckin deal". Wanna impress me, spin up some Zeppelin on that reel to reel.

 

[ecopure]

Originally posted by: cavemanmoron
1974
played Star Trek on a computer hub hooked up from my High school
to State University of NY @ Albany.

it used a teletype,and had a paper punch memory tape.

When the program crashed it was a majot pain to wait for it to go back online.

1981 University of Rhode Island

Fortran class paper punch 4x7 cards---I have no idea what I had to program....By the time I had it
run I hated computers

 

[olds]

I was in the Army in 1983 in Lawton Oklahoma. We bought a new Colecovision computer. I think it was called Adam. It had a tape drive and a daisy wheel printer.

 

[Zim Hosein]

Installing a math co-processor in my 286

 

[Brutuskend]

Originally posted by: mugs
I have some 1 MB 30 pin SIMMs

Edit: err... Apple IIe
Edit: No, IIgs, playing some baseball game

Damn it, you beat me too it!

 

[Iron Woode]

1980-1981 Commodore Pet, and Vic20.

Pet 4032
CBM 8032
Pet 16k - type "wait 6502,255" LOL
Vic20
C64
C128
C128D
PC

LOL