Your first Family PC

[Korian]

First Computer my Family ever had was the wonderfull Commodore 64, of course back than it was mainly used by me as a gaming computer, what great games, my neighbor had an Apple which were good times too.

[sggg]

Way back in the early 80s I had an IBM PC Jr. I got it because my uncle owned a computer store and he hooked me up. My parents didn't know what to do with it so I taught myself everything I needed to know. My first favourite PC game was the orignal King's Quest. I spent hours upon hours upon hours playing it and never finished it. Strangely enough, a few years ago I downloaded it from an abandonware site and played thru the entire game in less than an hour.


ps. Korian and anyone else who has C64 nostalgia - you absolutely need to hear the song C64 by Barcelona.

[Wildkat]

Commodore Plus/4

An interesting little machine to say the least, poor thing went up in smoke one day. Had the coolest joystick I have ever used, and unlike the C64 had a propritory joystick port.

Next was the C64 which I spent a good deal of my life on.

[icepop]

The first family PC I remember having was a "portable" Compaq where the keyboard actually locked into the front of the computer when you weren't using it. Something along the lines of the one pictured below. Oh and the screen was orange-ish, I believe.

I used to spend my time playing in DOS, programming BASIC, and playing Space Invaaders.

[Rumpy]

A 20mhz laptop with windows 3.1. I don't think it ran anything but solitare and word.

[MechDeus]

486SX w/4 MB RAM and a 100 MB HD. I used to know that things specs like the back of my hand and could rape it with bootdiscs to have play all sorts of games it wasn't supposed to. Up until Quake came out, which required a Pentium and Win95.

[gamevet]

Originally posted by icepop
The first family PC I remember having was a "portable" Compaq where the keyboard actually locked into the front of the computer when you weren't using it. Something along the lines of the one pictured below. Oh and the screen was orange-ish, I believe.

I used to spend my time playing in DOS, programming BASIC, and playing Space Invaaders.

God, that thing is old. I remember going to do some work at Compaq, formerly Digital Equipment's office and seeing that unit displayed as part of thier early history in computers.



My dad bought a TRS-80 with 16K of RAM. The thing was a real peice of shit, thus the name Trash 80. I later bought a C-64 and my dad picked up Tandy's version of the PC junior with a whopping 256K.

[K3V]

Our very first was a Radio Shack TRS-80:



I remember typing games into that thing using BASIC. The closest I ever came to programming

Then it was onto the ColecoVision ADAM:



Buck Rogers and Dragon's Lair on cassette tapes, a noisy as hell printer and the ability to play ColecoVision cartridges. Yesh!

Our first actual PC was a 10 Mhz Headstart-brand computer that had VGA graphics and an amazing CD-ROM drive. It could hold a whole encyclopedia on ONE DISC! Amazing stuff back then

-Kevin

[Josh]

First PC was an Apple IIGS.

I still have it.

It still works.

Thexder is still a fucking awesome game.

[piku]

386DX/33, 4 meg RAM, 160 meg hard drive, Trident 1 meg (or 512K? I forget) video card, purchased at a computer show.

Let me tell you, that video card was a beast.

(edit: Oh yeah, 5 1/2" and 3 1/4" floppy drives, and a 1x cd-rom drive as well. I still remember the first CD-ROM game I ever received: Microcosm, by Psygnosis. I can’t fault my parents for getting it for me (honestly I did enjoy it quite a bit), but I still can’t get over the fact that I was never able to beat it, considering the amount of time invested. It was always one fucking level that I couldn’t pass… getting to it was as routine as taking a shower though…)