I started out with punch cards & paper tape. No floppies. Type up your FORTRAN program on 80 column cards, one line per card, & hand them to the guy at the input widow. Wait 4 hours & get your printout at the output window.

Then moved up to a PDP-8 with a tape drive. WooHoo!

--Mike

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by RazorV3
anyone remember oregon trail or that crazy game with that nigel dude?

 

Just by chance this showed up in my mail today:

http://www2.b3ta.com/heyhey16k/

For that old 8-bit computing goodness...

 

ooo QEMM386 lol

i use to play these uber chinese RPGS with my 286, monochrome monitor

then a 486 dx2 66 with 16M of ram and a 1 meg ati card oh and a SB 16

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by jankemi
I started out with punch cards & paper tape. No floppies. Type up your FORTRAN program on 80 column cards, one line per card, & hand them to the guy at the input widow. Wait 4 hours & get your printout at the output window.

 

First computer was a TI 994A. Saved programs to a cassette recorder. Went big time when I upgraded to a 5 1/4 single side single density disc. Most current PC is a BTO from Comp USA

 

1st computer was a Texas Instruments 99/4A. . . Had a tape drive and hooked up to a television or a monitor. . .

 

I dont really know who made it, (I think IBM) but it was a 8 mhz, that had the "turbo" button, which would bump it up to 16 mhz (w00t!). All I really remember was crashing it all the time and installing Pete Rose Baseball (for 12 floppy disks)
It ran Win 3.1, or maybe that was my second computer, either way, I had 4 or 5 games in BIOS. Using the internal speaker for sound, just a bunch of "grrrt" and "beeeep" sounds.

 

Does anyone remember playing the first "Kings Quest" game?

 

Yep, Sierra was running high with some good games back then...