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what is your oldest computer memory?

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yokomo

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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....
 
I have some 1 MB 30 pin SIMMs

Edit: err... Apple IIe
Edit: No, IIgs, playing some baseball game
 
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! 😛
 
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
 
Originally posted by: mugs
I have some 1 MB 30 pin SIMMs

Edit: err... Apple IIe
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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.
 
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
 
memorizing my config.sys and autoexec.bat settings just to play games that needed 640k ram.

and LOGO on the apple machines.
 
Oregon Trail.

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

You win
 
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.
 
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.
Click to expand...


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
 
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.
 
1980-1981 Commodore Pet, and Vic20.

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

LOL

 
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