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what computer did your mum buy you?
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Jan 28, 2020 04:22
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the rich doctor who lived down the street came around asking all us neighbors for donations to get computers for the elementary school i went to dad said no cuz he was saving money to get us our own compute rich doctor said "if i give you my old one will you donate?" dad said sure you bet, and that's how i ended up with a 512k mac in my room. thx dad. mostly i remember playing toxic ravine and being very bad at it.
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Jan 28, 2020 04:33
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machines are fleeting. much like love
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Jan 28, 2020 04:51
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I had a commodore 64 and I don't think my family ever paid for a single piece of software for it
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Jan 28, 2020 05:19
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Displeased Moo Cow posted:what computer did your mum buy you? two computers for one family? what nonsense!
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Jan 28, 2020 05:29
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Achmed Jones posted:two computers for one family? what nonsense! same but phone lines
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Jan 28, 2020 06:40
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a used ibm pc xt that my parents got because it was cheaper than an electric typewriter they originally went out to buy first pc that was mine was a pentium 166 mmx 
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Jan 28, 2020 06:49
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 my grandpa got a new computer so he came over to my house and dropped his old tandy 1000 on my desk. I didn't have the 5 1/4 drive, but i had the printer and the joystick along with a few games.
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Jan 28, 2020 08:34
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Fabricated posted:I had a commodore 64 and I don't think my family ever paid for a single piece of software for it my dad had a bunch of atari floppies and none of them were commercial
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Jan 28, 2020 15:03
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Displeased Moo Cow posted:what computer did your mum buy you? my mom bought me a macbook (2007) for college because I was getting good grades for a change
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Jan 28, 2020 15:04
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the first computer I ever had was some 386/16 clone with a meg of ram that my mom bought. I played hella DOOM and wing commander and logged into my friends BBS at 2400 baud. I also went to my first IRL BBS meetup in like 1995. I never did that again
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Feb 2, 2020 03:56
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it was an ibm ps2. it was a floor model so it had a weird graphics program that played a demo and aces of the pacific which i could complete the steps needed to make it run about 1/3 of the time
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Feb 2, 2020 04:01
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first computer program i have a memory of using in my house growing up was WordStar on a Kaypro with CP/M
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Feb 2, 2020 04:03
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my first college roommate had some goddamn word processor with a model-m style keyboard that he loved to type on at 3am. also, when he was done, it would print everything ibm selectric style over the course of 10 minutes or so for a 10 page paper. what an rear end in a top hat
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Feb 2, 2020 04:16
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Origin posted:
 My grandfather's new 486 ibm could run the gently caress outta word perfect now tho. I had some fighter jet combat sim for it that i played the gently caress out of. I don't remember anything about it though other than everything was wireframe. i don't think i had a 3.5" drive, i can't remember exactly what model it was. dougdrums fucked around with this message at 05:08 on Feb 2, 2020 |
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Feb 2, 2020 05:04
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pentium 2 300 i had to use until 2006 with a 4mb ati rage '3d' pro that wasn't fully DX6 compatible.
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Feb 2, 2020 05:57
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apple //c with dual floppies, no HD’s. played a lot of donkey kong on it. and shuffleboard and a bunch of other games that i don’t remember the names of i guess.
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Feb 2, 2020 06:41
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Arson Daily posted:some 386/16 clone with a meg of ram that my mom bought. I played hella DOOM drat like what at 5 fps in a postage stamp sized window
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Feb 2, 2020 06:51
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yeah gotta say 486-DX2 66 was like, the slowest box that could actually doom right the DX33 was poo poo
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Feb 2, 2020 08:42
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It's all about the pentiums baby
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Feb 2, 2020 10:19
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first pc the family ever had was a Packard Bell with win 95 on it. I remmeber there was also like this pseudo-other desktop thing that had shelves and stuff hell yeah packard bell navigator 
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Feb 2, 2020 16:35
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my grandparents had an original macintosh at their house with an extra floppy drive and a dot matrix printer. i loved going there and playing with that thing.
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Feb 2, 2020 17:34
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Fanged Lawn Wormy posted:first pc the family ever had was a Packard Bell with win 95 on it. I remmeber there was also like this pseudo-other desktop thing that had shelves and stuff this is what my grandparents eventually replaced their mac with. it was a step down in every conceivable way.
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Feb 2, 2020 17:35
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My first computer was a Dick Smith VZ300, which was a rebadged VTech Laser 300. Supposedly compatible to the TRS-80. I hated it as I wanted a Commodore 64 like the rest of my friends. I still had the computer up to recently when I cleaned out dad's house. I gave it to a friend who is into retro computers (well, more than I am)
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Feb 2, 2020 23:12
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You Am I posted:My first computer was a Dick Smith VZ300 really? i had a dong forger 2000
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Feb 2, 2020 23:18
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I had the hogsculptor 8e
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Feb 3, 2020 04:40
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the first Pentium in the family was a PB 120mhz with what I thought at the time was the super cool but now agree with my father was a completely loving stupid packard bell navigator. I’m glad they are practically out of business and now computers are all just iMac abominations
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Feb 3, 2020 04:46
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on the topic of doom. I have a Socket 4 Pentium 60. Which is like 10,000 dollars of computer right there. Even it can barely do Doom at 30fps in heavier levels, and chugs for a lot of Doom 2. We're loving spoiled by consumer level hardware being able to do 60fps 4k at less than 2,000 dollars in cost.
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Feb 3, 2020 06:41
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I had a Mac Performa 575 I think. I hated it at the time because it wouldn't play any cool DOS or Windows games, but I have a lot of good memories of playing Theme Park, Warcraft 1/2, and SC2K on it for hours on end. It was also the first computer I ever used on the net, which we got hooked up in like 1996. My parents were pretty forward thinking about that. I really wanted it to run Netscape Navigator Gold so that I could make my own website using the built in WYSWYG editor, but there was some reason it couldn't (CPU?). I also loved flight sims so I remember wanting to play Flight Unlimited on it, only to be absolutely devastated that it couldn't because it wasn't a Power Mac. Got an IBM Aptiva in 1997 and loved the absolute hell out of that thing because of Flight Sim 98, then built my first PC in 2001. That Performa made me hate Macs and Apple products until the launch of OS X and the first-gen iPod.
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Feb 3, 2020 07:01
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Sniep posted:yeah gotta say 486-DX2 66 was like, the slowest box that could actually doom right it might seem like that to us now, but, back in the day, if it could execute that was usually considered 'playable' to most
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Feb 3, 2020 07:27
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WilWheaton posted:it might seem like that to us now, but, back in the day, if it could execute that was usually considered 'playable' to most it seemed like that to me then
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Feb 3, 2020 07:31
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akadajet posted:really? i had a dong forger 2000 My parents were too cheap for that 
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Feb 3, 2020 07:52
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dougdrums posted:gently caress, are you me? I had the 5" drive tho One thing that I got were all the Kings Quest and Space Quest games up to that point. My grandfather probably also had the Leisure Suit Larry games as well, but I obviously never got them.
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Feb 3, 2020 12:12
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Fabricated posted:I had a commodore 64 and I don't think my family ever paid for a single piece of software for it yeah, bbc model b (one of the later ones with a 5 1/4 inch floppy drive) and same
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Feb 3, 2020 14:41
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start with greenpos, turn the div borders purple, and turn all the buttons and links yellow and I reckon you'd have a pretty good Chuckie Egg 'pos
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Feb 3, 2020 14:43
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i had a 386/25. i played a lot of id/apogee games from software creations bbs.
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Feb 3, 2020 14:46
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Yes, the first computer I bought was a commodore 64.
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Feb 3, 2020 15:54
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yeah I think I’m confusing wolfenstein 3D with doom. gently caress you it was almost 30 years ago
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Feb 3, 2020 16:16
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doom sucked. quake was the first fps
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Feb 3, 2020 17:37
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Hammerite posted:doom sucked. quake was the first fps corridor 7 alien invasion
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