:remembers using pirated games on our atari800 on a custom cartridge my dad made to hold the chips, and having do change dip switches on the board to choose a 1-rom game or a 2-rom game:

 

:remembers pong:

 

Nice, red. That's quite the visual there!

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Chazmo
[B]Yes, but did you have a 150/300-baud acoustic coupler modem?

 

I remember my first REAL computer... an AMIGA!!!! hehehe then we move up to the 286 when dad brought one home from work, and the case had a TURBO button on the front I remember the first flight sim I played, it was all wireframe and programmed in BASIC... it was my project for my computers class when I was like 6, and back when I was smrt. I wrote a flight sim (very very bad one) in basic

I remember the first time I got a modem... it was 2400 baud and I was bouncing off the walls with excitement... I mean 0.24 kb/s WOOHOO! Ripping along now... and I look at my modem now... I have a cable modem which is blazingly fast, and I laugh at my memories cuz I grew up with the evolution of the PC

 

LV,

An Amiga as the first computer was a shweeet machine. Way ahead of it's time, I might add.

You wrote a sim when you were 6?? Scarier yet, you had a computer class when you were 6??? Oh my lord.

I didn't see a computer until I was about 10. It was in the IBM building in mid-Manhattan. It printed star charts after you told it the day you wanted it. Used one of those bulky old IBM Selectric typewriters as a "display".

From that moment on, I was hooked!

 

4 words...

Land Of The Lost !!!

 

Chaz, you're about my age, right? I was 12, taking a class through the college my Dad taught at for programming, they had IBM VAX that used punch cards

 

That Holly was a Hottie




and who could everyone's favorite Monkey-boy ...Chaka!

 

Martin... Got a year or so on ya, but close enough...

I actually never had to use punch cards. We had VAXwriter TTYs by the time I got to 'em. I wasn't really into 'puters until about age 15 or so.