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I was the first person in the family to have a computer; Amiga 500, so much fun with Deluxe Paint back then.... i learned Guru Meditation as well. 
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Just Another Lurker posted:I was the first person in the family to have a computer; Amiga 500, so much fun with Deluxe Paint back then.... i learned Guru Meditation as well. I learned chess using battle chess on the amiga, game ruled.
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Dec 8, 2023 18:39
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Sudden Loud Noise posted:The fun part about talking about first computers is that there's basically always someone to one-up the last person. Someone will talk about their P2, I'll talk about my Apple IIe, someone will talk about their Atari, eventually you get to some old gently caress talking about punch cards. Trying to remember a time when computers weren't poo poo and using them didn't make you miserable is excellent actually.
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Dec 8, 2023 18:45
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I dunno how talking about a computer that is older is one upping but hey. It’s just interesting and nice to think back on fun memories of early computing days.
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Dec 8, 2023 19:53
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First computer I programmed on was a C64 (tape, no disk), but I played games at school on a Commodore PET before that (8” floppies) and there is somewhere a photo of me pushing coloured buttons on a process-control computer thing that my dad brought home in 1979. First PC I used was my dad’s Compaq luggable, like a suitcase sized thing where one edge came off and was a keyboard, revealing a monochrome screen about 5” diagonal and the floppy drives. Played some “Olympic games” thing on that for a bit.
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Dec 8, 2023 20:00
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priznat posted:I dunno how talking about a computer that is older is one upping but hey. It’s just interesting and nice to think back on fun memories of early computing days. The conversation usually becomes a (hopefully) pleasant mix of "You don't know how good you had it, not having to worry about IRQ conflicts" and "Actually, I miss the old days when things weren't poo poo." (They were.)
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Dec 8, 2023 20:07
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My first pc was a commodore 64 which led to my first experiences on the internet including this very website being thru a webtv my mom connected to the c64 monitor and I'm pretty sure I'm the only person in the world with that experience 
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Dec 8, 2023 20:44
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All I will say is Atari ST owners are scum who do not belong in god’s light
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Dec 8, 2023 21:15
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beep by grandpa posted:My first pc was a commodore 64 which led to my first experiences on the internet including this very website being thru a webtv my mom connected to the c64 monitor and I'm pretty sure I'm the only person in the world with that experience Quantum Link for the C64 blew my mind when I borrowed the modem my mom had for work. And then it turned into AOL!
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Dec 8, 2023 21:16
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priznat posted:All I will say is Atari ST owners are scum who do not belong in god’s light What the gently caress you take that back
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Dec 8, 2023 21:21
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BobHoward posted:What the gently caress you take that back NEVER!!!  (I had a friend with an ST and it was a constant battle between me and him on Amiga 500 vs Atari ST)
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Dec 8, 2023 21:22
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Only Amiga makes it possible. Those are just the facts, I don’t make the rules. metal_ball_on_checkerboard.gif
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Dec 8, 2023 21:23
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GutBomb posted:Sweet, mine too. And a bunch of tapes and a few cartridges. I played so much Omega Race on that thing. And it started me on my programming journey that now has me writing JavaScript code today. gently caress. Curse that thing. I should have had a Nintendo. I also loved VIC-20 Omega Race as a kid.. I recently learned that the 2600 version had an extra 256 bytes of ram in the cartridge plus came with a special grip that sits on top of your standard joystick to add an extra button. (So that you have both fire and thrust button, rather than holding up for thrust like on the VIC-20) 
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Dec 8, 2023 21:39
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Sudden Loud Noise posted:The conversation usually becomes a (hopefully) pleasant mix of "You don't know how good you had it, not having to worry about IRQ conflicts" and "Actually, I miss the old days when things weren't poo poo." (They were.) I still remember SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 even though I haven't had to use it for at least twenty years.
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Dec 8, 2023 22:37
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Tunzie posted:I still remember SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 even though I haven't had to use it for at least twenty years. I had forgotten that before you mentioned it and now it allll comes back lol
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Dec 8, 2023 22:51
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Terrified of a post that's like "my first PC was an i5-750"
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gradenko_2000 posted:Terrified of a post that's like "my first PC was an i5-750" That was the goon parts thread recommended cpu for a long while, there's probably a bunch of goons that built their first PC with one of those.
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Fil5000 posted:That was the goon parts thread recommended cpu for a long while, there's probably a bunch of goons that built their first PC with one of those. Yeah, and if we're talking first PCs, an 18 year old now could have had an I5-2500k at 6.
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Dec 8, 2023 23:39
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Bondematt posted:Yeah, and if we're talking first PCs, an 18 year old now could have had an I5-2500k at 6. poo poo, I was 13 when I joined the forums so I could see that being the case. Although dorky teenagers are probably much different than what was around in the early 2000s
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My first pc had Core 2 Duo somethingBlurb3947 posted:poo poo, I was 13 when I joined the forums so I could see that being the case. Although dorky teenagers are probably much different than what was around in the early 2000s You're 14 now?
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Dec 8, 2023 23:47
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I think I remember my first computer at home being an Olivetti PCS42 running MS-DOS booting to DOS Shell with Windows 3.11 available, but my first time "online" was IRC in 1992, and I have no idea what system that was on. Also, it's wild that there are still random tripod fansites.
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Dec 8, 2023 23:58
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“I’ve only ever had a phone” is actually the scariest answer
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gradenko_2000 posted:Terrified of a post that's like "my first PC was an i5-750" No, my first PC was an i7-950 I was 17 when I joined the forums.
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Dec 9, 2023 02:25
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Zoomers think iMacs are quintessentially retro kitsch so
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My first family PC was a brother word processor with monochrome orange and black graphics. Then a Commodore 128. My first personal x86 pc was a 486 that I bought a math coprocessor for and eventually an overclock chip that brought it up to 133mhz. 
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Dec 9, 2023 04:40
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The biggest leap I ever made with a PC was going from a 100MB hard drive to 4GB. Everything else was incremental in comparison.
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Dec 9, 2023 04:59
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priznat posted:NEVER!!! The Amiga was really a 16-bit successor of the Atari8 platform that was doomed by Commodore's bungling, prove me wrong
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Sudden Loud Noise posted:The biggest leap I ever made with a PC was going from a 100MB hard drive to 4GB. Everything else was incremental in comparison. I would argue going from a HDD to an SSD was the largest jump one could have made. Watching programs open almost instantly was a revelation.
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Cross-Section posted:No, my first PC was an i7-950 Excellent generation. I bought an i7-920 for Christmas 2008 and it was rock solid for several years until I started tinkering around with cheap Xeons from eBay and discovered I could get an X5660 to 4.6GHz if I put a huge Noctua cooler on it. I used that all the way up until 2018 when I replaced it with a Ryzen 3700X, and my younger cousin is still using it today. It's starting to run into a wall with new games because it lacks AVX support, sadly.
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My first computer was a Commodore 64, but it wasn’t mine, it was a family computer. Then a 286 and a 486 as hand-me-downs. The first PC I legit bought with my own money was a 600MHz HP Pentium III. Then I built my own Athlon XP. I’ve been slowly reacquiring these machines and producing YouTube videos about them. I’ve actually got everything except the specific HP (8670). I’ve gotten close, but those machines don’t pop up on CL/FBM/eBay very often.
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Sudden Loud Noise posted:The biggest leap I ever made with a PC was going from a 100MB hard drive to 4GB. Everything else was incremental in comparison. I went from 80gb to 1tb when I finally upgraded from my first emachines. Mind blowing amount of space at the time.
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I remember going from 800MB to 20GB and it was so awesome being able to rip both red alert CDs onto the HDD and not have to swap discs when playing my brother via IPX on a 10Mbps HUB. 
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Bondematt posted:Yeah, and if we're talking first PCs, an 18 year old now could have had an I5-2500k at 6. hey friend, have you considered shutting the gently caress up? 
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Subjunctive posted:hey friend, have you considered shutting the gently caress up? Had a young coworker tell me his first Linux was Ubuntu 18.04. My first Linux was Slackware 3.0 on a stack of floppy disks. 
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Dec 9, 2023 05:39
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mine was someone’s boot-root on a pair of floppies I need all you children to go back to school, you’re late for the end of recess
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Subjunctive posted:mine was someone’s boot-root on a pair of floppies  Amazing
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yeah first Linux I installed was 0.99p<something> and it’s all been downhill from there I made Linux 1.2 delayed a couple of days because I was late with a patch to some AF_UNIX socket patch, but nobody cared about that poo poo then. different world
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Subjunctive posted:mine was someone’s boot-root on a pair of floppies PS/2s in the uni pools  the 386s wouldn't boot the floppies, the 486s wouldn't recognize the HD.
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one of these days I'm gonna get a 5150 or 5160 for an april fools joke and it's going to be GREAT I just need to a) find one with a monitor and b) find a way to write 5-1/4" disks from my modern machine.
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Welp, I just looked up my first personal computer, like, actually in my bedroom, fully mine... Apple Power Macintosh 6100/60AV in 1994. I was 11 and it apparently cost $5,000 in today's dollars. No wonder why I remember people looking at me weird at the age of 11 at the local Apple User Group telling them what kind of computer I had.
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