Vrecknidj
Warlord
10493 Posts
    
United States
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| Mine was the Atari 400 (membrane keyboard). I had a cassette player for storage (no disk drives for me!), a black & white TV for a monitor, and I had these bulky cartridges I plugged in for apps.
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Knowledge Arcana editor issues 5-9, Phoenix Lore Magazine editor, assistant editor for Rite Publishing;
My Trade Thread and My Reference Thread; Winner of WBC IV, IX and XIII; Rule #0: bshugg is always right! | |
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yack
Commander
3320 Posts
Gatineau Canada
| | 05/23/2006 8:59 PM |
| Commondore 64 (the old crap brown one)
Playing Pool of Radiance and Curse of Azure Bonds...man i loved thoses games.
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Champion of the Peryton
Vindicated Champion : Pit Fiend, Devourer
DW: Duergar Priest
RPG Only!!!! The Drumming Drunkn' DM | |
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sttmxn
Sergeant
461 Posts
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FeranEldritchKnight
Sergeant
385 Posts
Kansas City, MO USA
| | 05/23/2006 9:57 PM |
| I had an Atari 800. My parents bought it used without the disc drive. I had five cassettes, one was Basic and the other PILOT. My mom would check out books from the public library with huge programs written in basic, but no way to back them up to disc. I begged for that computer, and despite it's total crappiness I loved it- for about a year.
My first GOOD computer was a 486/75mhz with 4megs of RAM. Still pathetic by today's standards, but that was 11 years ago. | |
Completed trades: Gausse, Mazra, Pagansexy, Galerians, Lord_Raven, Drakkengi, Temujinn x2, Random Sasquatch, elf_ranger, Azuretide, Hung4treason, Griffrat (face2face), Nasamonkey
Carpe Forum! | |
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kestrel.ca
Underboss
1687 Posts
| | 05/23/2006 10:01 PM |
| Used a bunch of Apple's at school (don't remember the model) but I think the first home computer I remember is the original IBM PC. A few years later we eventually picked up a Compaq Deskpro with dual speed, 4.5 MHz and 7 MHz!
I know a friend of mine had a computer that used cassettes as storage/programs, and another used the old 8 inch floppy disks (same construction as the 5.25" floppies, just larger). | |
Completed Trades/Transactions: 94 || Bad Trades: 3 (Chaotic Good x2, MackeyV) | |
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zenthrus
Warlord
5132 Posts
SLC, UT
| | 05/23/2006 10:08 PM |
| Apple II (school) and Commodore 64 (home). I used to surf the essentially non-existant web (primarly BBS stuff) with my stylish 600-baud modem. Such speed [:O][:P]
Commodore's text-based RPGs (Zork, Hitchhiker's Guide, Bard's Tale Trilogy, etc.) are still usually more fun than the fancy, graphics-tastic stuff these days. There are exceptions, of course [:D]
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Knight Warlord a.k.a. Commander (#32) in only 6 months. Where's my pie?
Champion of Dwarven Thunderlashers
Knight of the Large Dire Chicken
Have/Want List
Trade References | |
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Bert the Troll
Commander
3964 Posts
Adelaide
| | 05/23/2006 10:43 PM |
| | Ourfamily had a trash 80, and used a friends C64 a lot. | |
"Mutton yesterday, mutton today, and blimey, if it don't look like mutton again tomorrer." Bert the Troll - The Hobbit
Semi-Secret sig business: "In the age of the internet attaching a famous name to your personal opinion to give more weight to it is a very valid strategy." - Benjamin Franklin
Champion of Epic Lolth, Orcus, & Demogorgon and bring us Asmodeus! | |
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Anothermullen
Warrior
285 Posts
| | 05/23/2006 10:46 PM |
| | TRS-80 Color Computer with "chicklet keyboard" (16K RAM if I recall), cassette player, a number of cartidges (games, word processor, etc), and a sturdy dot matrix printer with a big black marker to re-ink the ribbon. | |
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scruffydude7
Underboss
1196 Posts
Rock Hill, SC
| | 05/23/2006 10:57 PM |
| | A Commodore 64, and boy did I ever love that computer. Its still in the attic. | |
Champion of the Revenant
Knight of the Elf Duskblade
Complete Trades: Oni, Kidkach, Melrune, callidusx3 | |
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Fearfrost
Sergeant
518 Posts
| | 05/23/2006 11:53 PM |
| | Atari 400 with the tape drive membraine keyboard. Ahh memories[:)] | |
Asystole is a stable heart rhythm | |
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Flint_Firestone
Warrior
239 Posts
| | 05/24/2006 1:24 AM |
| | Tandy 1000 Meny a wasted day playing rouge and the old gold box games from TSR IIRC it took like 6 to 8 5 1/4 disk to play pool of raidance. | |
Opps did I do that
http://www.maxminis.com/hw_list.asp?user=Flint_Firestone
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Sammael
Underboss
1881 Posts
| | 05/24/2006 4:48 AM |
| | Commodore 128D. Twice as much memory as the 64, but only half of the games worked! | |
Hypethetical Blood War Set List | Champion of the Gelugon | Vindicated Prophet of Blood War
Ha 69/80 | De 60/60 | Ar 57/60 | GoL 72/72 | Ab 60/60 | DK 60/60 | AF 60/60 | UD 59/60 | WD 57/60 | WDQ 3/60| BW
Total DDM Count: 1037 | No chance of finishing the set | Will finish the set | Set | |
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The Great
Choco Monster
Ghendar
Warlord
13069 Posts
Mud Lick, Kentucky
| | 05/24/2006 7:08 AM |
| | I was a latecomer to the computer world. My first computer was a Pentium 166 running windows 95. | |
WotC - making me wish more and more every day for a return to the TSR days. :(
I fought the snark and the snark won. I'm baaaaaaaaaaack!
Some of my favorite Maxminis quotes
I actually love to be swallowed. - Posted By gss_000 on 09/04/2007 2:32 PM
Could somebody explain Snatch to me? I understand the basics, but not how to enter/use it. - Posted by orcmonk220
G's the man. - Posted By greyhaze on 11/11/2008 8:58 AM
I dont mind butting heads every once in a while. It makes thing interesting. Thats why I'd be heartbroken if Ghendar ever left - Posted By Count Dooku on 04/03/2006 11:58 AM
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Janos M.
Underboss
1015 Posts
Hamburg / GErmany
| | 05/24/2006 8:31 AM |
| | My father bought me and my brother a Amiga 500 while he used an Atari (don't know the model) | |
My Haves and wants:
http://www.maxminis.com/hw_list.asp?user=Janos_M.
Champion of Elan Psions
Proud Owner of the "Aura of cursed dice" | |
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Vrecknidj
Warlord
10493 Posts
United States
| | 05/24/2006 8:46 AM |
| quote:
Originally posted by zenthrus
Apple II (school) and Commodore 64 (home). I used to surf the essentially non-existant web (primarly BBS stuff) with my stylish 600-baud modem. Such speed [:O][:P]
I remember when a friend of mine (who had an Atari 800, miles ahead of my 400) finally got his modem and we got on the boards. We didn't have a clue what we were doing at first, but we eventually found some text chat areas and then we were off and running.quote:
Commodore's text-based RPGs (Zork, Hitchhiker's Guide, Bard's Tale Trilogy, etc.) are still usually more fun than the fancy, graphics-tastic stuff these days. There are exceptions, of course [:D]
Some of those oldies were great.
Dave | |
Knowledge Arcana editor issues 5-9, Phoenix Lore Magazine editor, assistant editor for Rite Publishing;
My Trade Thread and My Reference Thread; Winner of WBC IV, IX and XIII; Rule #0: bshugg is always right! | |
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PatEllis15
Commander
4463 Posts
| | 05/24/2006 1:16 PM |
| My father was an early computer programer, so we were into computers way early... thus, they sucked!
My first:
Vic 20 4 KB on RAM, casette drive
My Second:
Osborne portable computer, dual 5 1/4 drives, plus a 400 baud modem!!!
Pat E | |
"Games evolve. Otherwise we'd still be pushing rocks around the dirt. What do you think the cavemen said when some dude showed up with sticks?" - Chairman7w | |
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Vrecknidj
Warlord
10493 Posts
United States
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PatEllis15
Commander
4463 Posts
| | 05/24/2006 2:56 PM |
| quote:
Originally posted by Vrecknidj
Oh the Vic 20, how could I have forgotten about that? A friend of mine had one of those awful Sinclair computers.
Dave
The really sad part is that I was still using the Osborne (and its CPM based WordStar wordprocessor) to do papers my junior year of college (1991-92).
The only thing I ever did with the Vic20 was play Gorf...
Pat E | |
"Games evolve. Otherwise we'd still be pushing rocks around the dirt. What do you think the cavemen said when some dude showed up with sticks?" - Chairman7w | |
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Malin Lug
Sergeant
742 Posts
| | 05/24/2006 4:08 PM |
| | How about the old Apple IIe. That was the first computer we had at my parents house when I was growing up. I don't even remember most of the games, but there were a few that rocked... Conquest, Karatika, and the old Dungeon, Dungeon II, Dungeon III, and Dungeon IV the Return of Werdna. Dungeon IV the Return of Werda was the the best, the main character was the bad guy in the first Dungeon game and you started in the lowest level of the dungeon and had to fight your way through adventurers to reach the surface and the city. You would summon monster allies at each summoning circle as your party. | |
"Are you not entertained?" 
Champion of the Common Bar Wench
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bigbadjon
Sergeant
546 Posts
| | 05/24/2006 4:26 PM |
| | I had an old IBM with the floppy floppies and a Commodore 64. My grampa built them for GTE and built me one when I was little. I knew DOS inside and out when I was 5 and now I do not even remember how to run a disk on it. | |
Evil triumphs when good men fail their morale saves. | |
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Dragon Snack
Warrior
285 Posts
| | 05/24/2006 4:29 PM |
| Anyone remember the ADAM? I had cassettes of Donkey Kong and one other unmemorable game for it.
I think we got an Apple IIe not long after that, since there were no real programs for the ADAM. | |
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Fun Guy from Yuggoth
Cthulhufnord
Warlord
11113 Posts
Umass Amherst Baby!
| | 05/25/2006 3:32 AM |
| | A Mac Classic, we must have got it back in 89' or so. I hated that little thing, it was always crashing on me when I was writing papers and reports. | |
Pathetic Earthlings. Hurling your bodies out into the void - without the slightest inkling of who or what is out here. If you had known anything about the true nature of the universe - anything at all - you would have hidden from it in terror. | |
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Wakalimasu
Sergeant
738 Posts
Calgary
| | 05/25/2006 3:35 AM |
| some atari thing back in the early 80s
then we got a tandy 1000 sx when i was in grade 5 :o
.. age 10.. bout 18 yrs ago
my god
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Idzy
Commander
3082 Posts
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
| | 05/25/2006 10:41 AM |
| Timex 1000
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=477
I had a cassete drive and a black and white tv for a monitor.
I think I had 2 games for it on tape, Big Flap Attack and something else I can't remember, I also had a great big huge ram addon that brought it up to 4kb if I remember correctly. | |
Champion of Champions (for all races! even Gnomes  )
Reference Thread
Winnipeg Gryphon Cavalry Forums
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nyjastul69
Commander
2731 Posts
Rhode Island
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PaSquall
Underboss
1399 Posts
| | 05/25/2006 10:50 AM |
| amstrad cpc 6128
But before this I played a lot with my mate's zx81... | |
Vindicated Champion of the PSEUDODRAGON
(Unhappy) vindicated champion of the DRYAD
Against the giants called shot : huge cloud giant female
Demonweb called shot : ghost | |
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glumag
Warlord
5968 Posts
| | 05/25/2006 11:20 AM |
| Atari 400 w/cassette storage (bought separatedly of course) and child spill-proof keyboard! Nothing like pre-80s computers, yay!
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Trades >> Completed: 49 | Bad: Ø | Pending: 0 | Trade & talk Live on IRC! SERVER: irc.psionics.net CHANNEL: #maxminis | |
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Kelemvor
Warrior
223 Posts
| | 05/25/2006 1:31 PM |
| Whoa, seeing that Atari 400 brings back memorys.
That was my first computer, had cartridges, and a cassette until my dad dropped $400+ for a 5 1/4 floppy disk drive. Man.. that was fast back then.
Still remember playing Temple of Apshai, and Ultima 3.
Then he upgraded to a Apple II GS. Wow, Bards Tale was the shiznit on that system. Later he upgraded again to an IBM XT 286, with EGA graphics. Ultima 5 was "the" game back then.
I also spent hours and hours with the basic cartridge typing in Games from those "Byte" magazines with the code printed in the back. I even tried designing my own basic games based on Star Frontiers, and designed a Lunar lander type thing using Oversized color Ascii characters. It was very rudimentary, but I thought I was pretty cool for a 13 year old.
Way before all that, my very ,very, first experience with computers was my dads Terminal he would bring home from the Phone company. It had the old modem you put the phone receiver into the Rubber circles and it communicated through sound. I played the first "Adventure" game off his server online, and all the text was printed on a spool of paper instead of a screen. I waited each evening for him to get home to see if he brought the terminal so I could play more adventure.
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Champion of ... Solamnic Knight on Silver Dragon
Completed Maxminis Trades = nystul69(1), ihawk(1), gausse(2), smilinirish(1), Ben Webster(1), thom(1), Gunthar(1), Halofurry(1), Anthraxus(1), Dr.Cornelius(1), me_is_fred(1), ksarchet(1), tirwin(1), Sirohk(1)
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striderlotr
Commander
3370 Posts
| | 05/25/2006 1:33 PM |
| I had a TI 99 computer.
It hooked up to a TV with a tape drive for storage. | |
Sean Banks
Champion of Elementals
Official Organizer
Gen Con 05 maxminis Event | Winterfantasy 06 maxminis Event | Gen Con 06 maxminis Event | Winterfantasy 07 Community Event | |
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Vrecknidj
Warlord
10493 Posts
United States
| | 05/25/2006 4:08 PM |
| quote:
Originally posted by Kelemvor
I also spent hours and hours with the basic cartridge typing in Games from those "Byte" magazines with the code printed in the back.
That's how I learned too!
I'd type in a whole program--often it took me hours, and then I'd take out a line here or there, or change a line here or there, and that's how I taught myself BASIC.
Dave | |
Knowledge Arcana editor issues 5-9, Phoenix Lore Magazine editor, assistant editor for Rite Publishing;
My Trade Thread and My Reference Thread; Winner of WBC IV, IX and XIII; Rule #0: bshugg is always right! | |
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PatEllis15
Commander
4463 Posts
| | 05/25/2006 6:08 PM |
| Ah! Sweeet, here is a pic of the Osborne. Mine had one of the two expansion "holes" filled with that 400 baud modem..
My eyes still hurt thinking about that screen...
Pat E | |
"Games evolve. Otherwise we'd still be pushing rocks around the dirt. What do you think the cavemen said when some dude showed up with sticks?" - Chairman7w | |
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Wrackspawn
ChristopherGroves
Warlord
6093 Posts
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madda
Sergeant
714 Posts
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Zozo
Warrior
218 Posts
| | 05/26/2006 10:52 AM |
| | My first comp was a tandy, not sure what kind. I remeber it had a 16 color monitor, I used to play lemmings on that thing all the time. We got it used, it was no where near top of the line when we picked it up. | |
Champion of the Ixitxachitl | |
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shadroth
Warrior
210 Posts
| | 05/26/2006 11:20 AM |
| I had an Apple //e, with a setup almost identical to the one shown here:
http://www.homecomputermuseum.de/comp/detail/79.jpg
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Monsoon28
Underboss
2313 Posts
Toronto
| | 05/26/2006 11:31 AM |
| quote:
Originally posted by yack
Commondore 64 (the old crap brown one)
Playing Pool of Radiance and Curse of Azure Bonds...man i loved thoses games.
Amen to that! Don't forget Wasteland, Maniac Mansion & Zak McKracken! [:D]
I first learned how to use computers though with the Commodore Pet! I think I was 9yrs old at the time.
Tape Drives Rule! ...Not!
My first game system was the Atari 2600. I think I might still have both somewhere in my parents basement. | |
"I was sittin' here eatin' my muffin, drinkin' my coffee, replayin' the incident in my head, when I had what alcoholics refer to as a moment of clarity." - Jules Winnfield
Sales/Trades Bad (1): Ironfist Boulderbender
Trades/Sales completed (8.): Danthl, Dafrca, Garyaxe, qillan_dvra, realmaster, Vandal_Savage, cavedweller, unearthed arcana.
Champion of Gem Dragons, VINDICATED Squire of Duergar Commander, Knight of the Astral Stalker.
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Sulaco
Underboss
1605 Posts
| | 05/26/2006 11:40 AM |
| quote:
Originally posted by madda
My very first computer was the Sinclair ZX81, a whooping 1K ram machine with Z80 as the CPU. No storage at all. I had a games book and had to program it in basic before I played. Pure joy.
The Sinclair ZX81 was a great single-purpose machine.
Unfortunately, this was the purpose:
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Champion of the Gelatinous Cube. Nemesis of Gnomes and Dinosaurs.
Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. ~ Terry Pratchett | |
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Felagund
Sergeant
922 Posts
| | 05/26/2006 1:56 PM |
| quote:
Originally posted by Ghendar
I was a latecomer to the computer world. My first computer was a Pentium 166 running windows 95.
I think I beat you out. My first computer was a Dell Dimension with a 1GB processor. Running the god-awful Windows ME. | |
Champion of Gnomes | |
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dog of the underworld
Skirmisher
24 Posts
| | 05/26/2006 2:01 PM |
| VIC 20: a couple of catridges, a cassette tape drive, and eventually a 30 character/line dot matrix mini printer (but with Black AND Red ink :) ) I once wrote a program to print out random combinations of powers fot the Marvel Superheros game... (back then, random was all the rage :) )
Then a C-64, eventually with a disk drive and a color printer.
Then I moved up to an IBM PC (original), just like we used in my High School computer classes (ACK!)
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Jeb McDonald
Sergeant
403 Posts
Central New Jersey
| | 05/27/2006 9:00 AM |
| Mine was a Packard-Bell with a 286 chip (MUCH better than the 8086 chip). Had an EGA monitor. Also had 2 high density floppy drives...a 1.2 meg 5.25" and a 1.44 meg 3.5". I believe the system cost me a bit over $2000 in the fall of '88.
Until that time, I had worked with Apple IIe and IIplus at my high school... | |
The man who thinks he can, and the man who thinks he can't are both right. Which one are you? | |
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