Ridgewaycynic2013 Posted June 18, 2019 Share Posted June 18, 2019 42 minutes ago, Augie said: Did it have Ten Commandments on it? I had already stuccoed and rechiseled my tablet many times when that kid Moses schlepped by with the Fifteen Commandments on his three tablets. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Augie Posted June 18, 2019 Share Posted June 18, 2019 2 minutes ago, Ridgewaycynic2013 said: I had already stuccoed and rechiseled my tablet many times when that kid Moses schlepped by with the Fifteen Commandments on his three tablets. THANK YOU for the edit! I’m sure it makes life easier! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ridgewaycynic2013 Posted June 18, 2019 Share Posted June 18, 2019 10 minutes ago, Augie said: THANK YOU for the edit! I’m sure it makes life easier! Don’t thank me...thank Mel Brooks! ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boca BIlls Posted June 18, 2019 Share Posted June 18, 2019 It was a HP 530mhz computer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gray Beard Posted June 18, 2019 Share Posted June 18, 2019 In college the mainframe was a CDC Cyber 70. When I started working, I used a Honeywell 6000. A few years later we started using VAX computers. Then we started using workstations instead of mainframes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxx Posted June 18, 2019 Share Posted June 18, 2019 3 hours ago, plenzmd1 said: Prolly first used a Think Pad in like 92 or 93..work would have given it to me to use for demos and such. First computer I owned outright was a Gateway..prolly 95 or 96???? I did have one of these in 87 though! in the mid to late 80's, i had a brick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plenzmd1 Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 12 hours ago, Foxx said: in the mid to late 80's, i had a brick. Those were crazy expensive no? That was a real cell phone! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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US Egg Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 My 1st computer: .....but I don't use it much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seasons1992 Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 21 hours ago, teef said: i was born in 77, so the apple ll was out, but i the first computer in the house that i remember was the apple ll e. i'm not sure what the difference was, but i thought that ***** was the best. I was '78, and the first one was an Apple II+. There used to be an Apple-only store somewhere in the Northtowns (I think) that my dad would take us to. It was a small house. Choplifter was my favorite game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxx Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 6 hours ago, plenzmd1 said: Those were crazy expensive no? That was a real cell phone! i think when they first came out, they went for something like $4k or more. when i got one, it was somewhere around $2k. i managed to convince my boss that we needed it for work and got them to pay for half the cost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frostbitmic Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 These weren't very expensive in 1962 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teef Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 20 minutes ago, Seasons1992 said: I was '78, and the first one was an Apple II+. There used to be an Apple-only store somewhere in the Northtowns (I think) that my dad would take us to. It was a small house. Choplifter was my favorite game. choplifter was the balls. my other favorites were lode runner, wolfenstein, and a bad ass version of conan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ridgewaycynic2013 Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 (edited) Somewhere in the attic are old ‘recorded from air’ television shows from the late 90s, complete with commercials. Noted there from $2000 to $2400, the Future Shop chain was selling desktop computers with the same memory capacity as 2019’s musical greeting cards are equipped with. In the four years between buying our first pc to our second pc (1997 - 2001) from a computer specialist store, the price of a CD burner there dropped from $10000 to about $150. Yes, ten thousand. Edited June 19, 2019 by Ridgewaycynic2013 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seasons1992 Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 6 minutes ago, teef said: choplifter was the balls. My dad also had this picture in his office. I always loved it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Ridgewaycynic2013 Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 2 minutes ago, ShadyBillsFan said: Those graphics are more jarring than the hypnotoad! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlimShady'sSpaceForce Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 (edited) 6 minutes ago, Ridgewaycynic2013 said: Those graphics are more jarring than the hypnotoad! in the early to mid 80's .. these were top of the line. Edited June 19, 2019 by ShadyBillsFan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ridgewaycynic2013 Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 2 minutes ago, ShadyBillsFan said: Are these computer graphics or Rorschach tests? The second one is either Jabba the Hut or a pile of dogc*** sitting in a recliner, left side. 6 minutes ago, ShadyBillsFan said: in the early to mid 80's .. these were top of the line. That explains that ‘lost generation’... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlimShady'sSpaceForce Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 (edited) Wolfenstein DOOM Duke Nukem 7 minutes ago, Ridgewaycynic2013 said: Are these computer graphics or Rorschach tests? The second one is either Jabba the Hut or a pile of dogc*** sitting in a recliner, left side. the graphics were so bad in Wolfenstein you could litterally get sick following along they got better with DOOM and Duke Nukem some of the games were Text driven Turn left pick up glass [execute graphics] Take hooker to bed [execute graphics] You died from a disease because you forgot to wear a condom Edited June 19, 2019 by ShadyBillsFan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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