what is your oldest computer memory?

[imported_LoKe]

I rememeber owning a p2 with no OS. I was left messing around with DOS.

cd..
dir

That's pretty much all I did.

 

[jdiddy]

Trying to guess the questions at the start of Lesiure Suit Larry. If you don't get the questions right you don't get to play. I was 4 yrs old and had no idea who Richard Nixon was. I eventually memorized all the answers though. I miss the old school Sierra games.

 

[eelw]

Playing Gorf on the VIC20

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

played some text adventure games on a TS 80

 

[grrl]

I remember having to open up my 40 meg hard drive to get it to spin up. That was on a Tandy SX 1000.

 

[tami]

i used to play on my apple IIgs, working on little programs with basic. i remember using this program on the same computer that sort of taught people how to navigate with the mouse -- you were controlling a car going through all these curvy roads.

when i first received an IBM-type computer (about 5 years later), in 1993 or so, i remember trying out a LOT of stuff on that, including signing up to promenade (which ultimately became AOL. it cost $9.95 for 5 initial hours plus $5.95 for each additional hour -- seriously). my biggest computer mistake was playing with fdisk in a DOS prompt (the help feature gave me "insight") and i deleted the boot partition. oops.

 

[Rock Hydra]

I remember fudgin' up the BIOS on an old Emerson PC from the 80s when I was about 7 or 8.

 

[whistleclient]

i hacked into WOPR and played chess with joshua. it was pretty cool.
oh, and i almost started world war III.

oops.

 

[sharkeeper]

punchcards and SIPS

 

[KarenMarie]

Commodore 64.

First PC was... hmmm... running DOS and I remember when Windows came out.

 

[suicidalpigeon]

buying my frist/last dell... and where in the world is carmen san diego

 

[SilentZero]

Originally posted by: loki8481
Oregon Trail.

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

LOL That game was great!!!

 

[DAGTA]

Commodore 128

 

[ktehmok]

holy sh|t, I was drunk enough to post in this thread at one time......and now I'm drunk enough to find my way back...wh))t!

 

[NutBucket]

Originally posted by: grrl
I remember having to open up my 40 meg hard drive to get it to spin up. That was on a Tandy SX 1000.

I remember opening up a 120 meg conner drive to "fix" it. Shows what I knew. I must have been in 7th grade at the time.

Another memory; "compressing" floppy disks to hold something like 100 megs, or so windows claimed. Yeah, easy to hold 100 megs if its empty:roll:

I still have that 386 in the garage. Memories!

 

[notfred]

writing basic on some machine with a Z80 in it. I can't even remember the brand of the thing.

 

[LordMorpheus]

I remember getting my family's first computer in 95 or 96 os something. Some kind of Apple. I was all over the Sim City.

 

[ifoundthetao]

i remember playing some games like Qbert and a karate game on my grandpas computer. i was about 5 . .. so that about about 88..

 

[Gamingphreek]

Jumpan on an Atari.

Also i seem to remember trying to jam a 3 1/2 disk into the slot when it was close.

I can also remember playing Doom I with my Grandpa... he died in 96' ...
(Only 17 (must have been like 6 at the time, so dont think i was some 30 year old guy chillin with gramps playing video games )

-Kevin

 

[Landroval]

About '79 or '80 I was selected as one of five students at my science magnet to learn BASIC from a visiting programmer.

 

[Garion]

In 1979 or 1980 when I was about 10, a group of parents organized a computer class for their young kids, about 12 of us. They got a bunch of TI 99/4A computers loaned to them by local computer stores and the college. They taught us the LOGO programming language. The first lesson was how to load LOGO from the attached cassette tape. I still remember using LOGO to draw stuff by telling the turtle how to rotate, change it's pen color, move forward/backwards, etc. Way cool! From there I was hooked, and I still work on computers to this date.

You know, in the back of my closet I still have my old TI - Wonder if I can find a LOGO cartridge? Might be fun to draw some triangles - Maybe even a blue-and-red house!

- G

 

[Al Neri]

I signed onto a PC using Windows 2000 and logged into Anandtech

 

[Alex]

playing the simpsons game on my dads shiny new colour 386 laptop!
oh and paintbrush the second coolest program ever
also, trying to figure out lotus notes or some crap OS or whatever on my dads new presario a couople years later

 

[Kelemvor]

Back in 6th grade or so I made the turle (triangle shape) draw circles and stuff using Logo. That was fun. Then we got an Apple IIGS which was the king of all computers because it had a color screen and a sound card. WOO.

 

[cirrhosis]

Booting up Omega (from Origin Systems) on my Apple IIgs for the first time.