This was my first:


- TrashPanda

Are those colours?

I mean, you could really jump the shark...


- lumlums

Wait, is that AA?

This was my first:


- TrashPanda

I had this beauty!

Wait, is that AA?
- GreatGigInTheSky

It's the reason why anybody born in '88 is a nazi

They were really expensive, too. You could buy a new car for what they cost.
- TrashPanda

IIRC, my parents dropped $2,100 for it in about 1984.

I couldn't franking believe it - my dad was (and still is) notoriously cheap. But someone had convinced them that buying a family computer was important for your kids' futures.

My older brother used to type out his essays on the typewriter for university - I think it pissed off my parents. He finally did his 4th year thesis on it - and the computer didn't have enough memory to save it. This was a major franking panic on his part, although I was able to first print it out in full, then save it by dividing it in two (remember, no hard drive - you used to have to swap out floppy disks).

He never trusted the damn thing again.

So yeah, a helluva lot of money, but we did get over a decade of use out of it.

I had this beauty!


- Scabeh

Compaq?

Are those colours?
- TheMussel

Yes! You could display 4096 of them at the same time!

Here's the line:

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Steven_Seagull


You're a habitual linestepper
- RickJames77

Every time I hear that line it cracks me up.

Yes! You could display 4096 of them at the same time!
- TrashPanda

The built-in clock display and calculator is decadent.

Compaq?
- Atomic Wedgie

Yes sir!

Compaq presario 486.

Which we added a CD-ROM player on a few years later.

Also added 8megs of ram so we could play warcraft on it.

Good times.

That would have been 1988 for me. I've been on the internet long enough that I was there pre-WWW days.

I was at 2400 baud, which was blistering fast - but remember paying $1K for a 14.4Kpbs modem. Porn was a thing, there were a lot of porn BBSes in the day. If you were savvy enough you knew how to call anywhere without paying long distance charges.
- TrashPanda

Good year.

IIRC, my parents dropped $2,100 for it in about 1984.

I couldn't franking believe it - my dad was (and still is) notoriously cheap. But someone had convinced them that buying a family computer was important for your kids' futures.

My older brother used to type out his essays on the typewriter for university - I think it pissed off my parents. He finally did his 4th year thesis on it - and the computer didn't have enough memory to save it. This was a major franking panic on his part, although I was able to first print it out in full, then save it by dividing it in two (remember, no hard drive - you used to have to swap out floppy disks).

He never trusted the damn thing again.

So yeah, a helluva lot of money, but we did get over a decade of use out of it.
- Atomic Wedgie

My old man raided the vacation fund to buy mine - he seemed to know how important it would become to me. My mother was NOT pleased.

Good year.
- GreatGigInTheSky

It was. That was also the year when I attended my very first rave.

Yes sir!

Compaq presario 486.

Which we added a CD-ROM player on a few years later.

Also added 8megs of ram so we could play warcraft on it.

Good times.
- Scabeh

Did it come with Microsoft Encarta?

Yes! You could display 4096 of them at the same time!
- TrashPanda

sounds trippy

sounds trippy
- 21peter

At the time, it was. Google 'Amiga demo scene' for more info.

I was born in 1988.
- BetterCallSaul

Me too.

Did it come with Microsoft Encarta?
- Atomic Wedgie

I think you could buy toasters that came with Encarta back then.

Anybody old enough to have used one of these in school?

At the time, it was. Google 'Amiga demo scene' for more info.
- TrashPanda

I was lucky enough to have the company nerdy IT guy come and install mine. Don't even know the specs, but the guy said he would kill to have it in his home...

Anybody old enough to have used one of these in school?


- Atomic Wedgie

My public school had them, but none of the teachers knew how to use them. The Apple II that got wheeled around on a cart saw more use, which was the first computer that I learned to use. I taught the teachers how to submit their grades on it.

I sold my star wars toys in march 1995 to buy my first computer.

i remember spending a lot of time in chat rooms back then

I'm going to have to watch War Games tonight when I get home.

Me too.
- GreatGigInTheSky

1990 is best year. Fight me.

I sold my star wars toys in march 1995 to buy my first computer.

i remember spending a lot of time in chat rooms back then
- senstroll

24 years later. Nothing has changed.