what is your oldest computer memory?

[Linflas]

Typing in a basic program on a teletype when I was a senior in high school and saving it onto paper punch tape.

 

[JRock]

Originally posted by: Nohr
I remember playing Oregon Trail

 

[DainBramaged]

My dad playing Raid On Bungling Bay. It was also the first game I ever played.

 

[ChaoZ]

Playing Oregon Trails.

 

[ChefJoe]

My dad programmed a very basic addition teaching "game" for me on the IBM 8088 that IBM gave him to use. I remember playing with that game.

 

[iwantanewcomputer]

holy crap, i just realized this thread is not about RAM...ner-dy

 

[jemcam]

I remember a kid bringing in his Tandy to school for a project in 1980 or 81 when I was in high school. I remember it being really cool that the data was stored on casette tapes.

The second one that I actually got to play with was a Macintosh Lisa in about 1984 or so. I remember playing around with their paint program and using the mirror feature I drew a perfect set of boobs.

My next computer experience was an old Apple IIe I think, playing some kind of flight simulator that was just stick drawings. I guess it would have been 1986 or so, but the computer was pretty old even then.

I didn't get my first laptop at work until about 1991 when it all began for me.

I take all that back. I just remembered going on a field trip to Purdue when I was in first grade in 1968. I don't remember much about it except that it was a really big deal. I remember them giving us all IBM punch cards to take home. All I remember about it was that it was really big and noisy.

 

[jemcam]

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
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.

So, you were FA too, huh?

 

[2cpuminimum]

I have some EDO simms. Er, and I remember playing munchman and hunt the wumpus on a TI-99.

 

[mordantmonkey]

i remember being 5 or 6 and touching my first computer. it was a green monitor i thought it was so cool that you could press buttons and it would appear on the screen. i held down the > key (it was it's own key on that keyboard) and watched it move across the screen. COOL!

god damn i was doomed to be a nerd even back then.

 

[Spydermag68]

I like going around to different stores and typing in basic programs that you could not break out of. They would have to reboot the computer from casset tape.

 

[AU Tiger]

Playing on a TRS-80 or something in the TRS line in 4th or 5th grade. Had to be in the 1980-1982 timeframe.

About the same time I had a friend who had I think a Commodore. We would go upstairs and watch tv or get something to eat while the game loaded off of cassette.

 

[CRXican]

Oregon Trail

 

[Siddhartha]

Oldest memory:

Going to work with my dad, he worked for IBM, and going into the "computer room. It was a large room containing a mainframe computer. They kept the room cold.

 

[imported_xaguynamedguyx]

me and my brother used to rock the Commodor 64!

we had sesame street games on it, we had these old arcade thigns on it with like battleship games and stuff...o man it was great

 

[FrustratedUser]

I remember prgramming assembly code on the C128
I was switching back and forth between the 4MHz Z80 and the 1MHz 8510. LOL good times.
I even ran subroutines in the disk drive

 

[TStep]

Mid to late 70's, summer comp class for a week at Mansfield Unv. when I was a kid - programmed something on punch card, boxed them, dropped the box on the way to the card reader, resorted the cards, and ran something.

Early 80, on the high schools comp lab network - changed the boot screen from something like "Insert your floppy in the disk drive" to "Insert your colon in the disk drive". That went over real well.