First computer?

[JAXvillain]

this was my first modern era computer. ast ascentia 486 33sx notebook running win 3.1 and aol dialup

 

[taivas]

My first computer was a venerable 286, way back when I was about 6. (READER RABBIT! YEAH!)

I still maintain that the tragic loss of C:\UTILITY was my dad's fault. Who the hell teaches a 6 year old the DEL command?

 

[OzSTEEZ]

Did anyone run XTreeGold on their old PC's? I loved that program!

 

[itburnswhenipee]

Did anyone run XTreeGold on their old PC's? I loved that program!

Was that a DOS era file manager? I used Norton Commander.

 

[water]

The first computer I personally owned was a 350mhz Pentium 3 with 128mb of RAM and a Voodoo 3 3000.

 

[OzSTEEZ]

Yeah it was. Basically what became file explorer today..

 

[Syrup Beaver]

My buddy and I made fun of people who needed file managers

 

[Duke]

My buddy and I made fun of people who needed file managers

this.

working within DOS was exceptionally easy

 

[JAXvillain]

I still use dos on the regular

 

[OzSTEEZ]

My buddy and I made fun of people who needed file managers

I laugh at people who purposely do things the hard way.

 

[Syrup Beaver]

It was vastly quicker to use DOS commands than to navigate those lame treed programs back then.

 

[OzSTEEZ]

meh. you would push more buttons than I would.

 

[Desslock]

The first computer I built was a Pentium 120mhz 64mb ram and 100mb hard drive.

 

[JAXvillain]

juleeeeeee, here's choplifter online if you want to play it. I haven't figured out how to shoot yet after playing 1 game
http://www.virtualapple.org/choplifterdisk.html

 

[fly]

I still use dos on the regular

Me too essentially. I still write batch scripts wherever possible, rather than vbscript or powershell. Its much easier for people to understand.

 

[taivas]

Its much easier for people to understand.

 

[ZRH]

No body else had an Amiga?

Those computers were freakin awesome!

I remember going through a phase when I rented all the Amiga books in the public library system (omg a computer, with omg color). I've still never seen one in person though.

I used to also write letters to Silicon Graphics and Sun for their catalogs. $15,000 RISC workstations

 

[fly]

Well, its true! I try to do stuff that people will still understand when I leave.

 

[shawndavid]

I had a VIC 20 forever. I was more of a console gamer. I got a PC in like 1992, but I have no idea what it was and then got a laptop in 2000 or so. I always had a computer at work so I didn't really have any need for one. The first computer I really remember anything about was a desktop that fly built for me about 6 or 7 years ago.

This is my console history:
Pong>2600>5200>Colecovision>Nintendo>Action Max>TurboGrafx 16>Sega & SNES>3DO then Playstation>Xbox>360

 

[ZRH]

Well, its true! I try to do stuff that people will still understand when I leave.

If you did it in LISP/Assembly/Smalltalk without comments it would be like fear based job security.