What computer did your family have when you were a child?

[reecejackox]

i had when i was a standard dekstop.

[Calderyon]

i had when i was a standard dekstop.

You were a desktop computer?

That's pretty neat.

[LaLaLand]

Windows XP desktop complete with the anthemic David Byrne’s “Like Humans Do” pre-installed on Windows Media Player. Them were the days!

[Dogeatdog]

https://sm.pcmag.com/t/pcmag_uk/review/d/dell-dimen/dell-dimension-4700_498e.620.jpg

Dell Dimension (2003 I think?)

[Cherie]

None

[Niamh.]

Jeez I don't know, we had a big humpy green screen thing at some point. I remember in later years when i was a teenager when the internet was becoming a thing but it wasn't even worth the effort waiting for the dial up and it was so slow plus there wasn't much to look up anyway

[user104658]

Posted these on the "childhood games" thread a few days back, but here they are again anyway

First computer was a Commodore Amiga that just plugged into a little portable telly. It didn't even have a hard drive, everything ran off floppy disks :joker:


https://www.old-computers.com/museum/photos/Commodore_Amiga1200_System_1.jpg



My first "regular" PC was this beaut, a Compaq 486/66 all-in-one unit. It came running Windows 3.1, we upgraded to Windows 95 not long after. And of course, wonderful MS-DOS. 300mb hard drive, 4mb RAM (I later upgraded to a staggering 16mb)... What a dream machine :hehe:.


http://oldcomputer.info/pc/compaq510/001_small.jpg

[bots]

i had a classic

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/tVTMuoQZ0lX5NjVg9lm4k1EJ_x89RASGiBih56Px2_7j9s4yTF _6Z-HOdJRFIdepSYRyCR_HOnTGoYCFbYTWF3u2dDkmnlbW6Itsrls0 zhrJEDAVFgqyt-L6zH1GzZBI07PEt5JF7kw

[thesheriff443]

i had a classic

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/tVTMuoQZ0lX5NjVg9lm4k1EJ_x89RASGiBih56Px2_7j9s4yTF _6Z-HOdJRFIdepSYRyCR_HOnTGoYCFbYTWF3u2dDkmnlbW6Itsrls0 zhrJEDAVFgqyt-L6zH1GzZBI07PEt5JF7kw

Same, the amazing ability to write hello upside down.

[user104658]

i had a classic

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/tVTMuoQZ0lX5NjVg9lm4k1EJ_x89RASGiBih56Px2_7j9s4yTF _6Z-HOdJRFIdepSYRyCR_HOnTGoYCFbYTWF3u2dDkmnlbW6Itsrls0 zhrJEDAVFgqyt-L6zH1GzZBI07PEt5JF7kw

I did have an ancient (late 70's) digital "space invaders" handheld when I was a kid, that I bought at a garage sale for £2. It would be worth over £100 today. God knows what happened to it :joker:.

[AnnieK]

Posted these on the "childhood games" thread a few days back, but here they are again anyway

First computer was a Commodore Amiga that just plugged into a little portable telly. It didn't even have a hard drive, everything ran off floppy disks :joker:


https://www.old-computers.com/museum/photos/Commodore_Amiga1200_System_1.jpg



My first "regular" PC was this beaut, a Compaq 486/66 all-in-one unit. It came running Windows 3.1, we upgraded to Windows 95 not long after. And of course, wonderful MS-DOS. 300mb hard drive, 4mb RAM (I later upgraded to a staggering 16mb)... What a dream machine :hehe:.


http://oldcomputer.info/pc/compaq510/001_small.jpg

The first computers we had were a Vic 20 which we the upgraded to a Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum with rubber keys - god they were the future then, :laugh:

[user104658]

:omgno: How could I forget that we also had THIS piece of archaeology

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/rOuPuE194fo/hqdefault.jpg

An Amstrad CPC 464. Games came on cassette tapes! You could copy them using a dual-cassette HiFi :joker: Again we never had a "proper" monitor for it - it just tuned into a normal CRT telly.

[user104658]

What actually really blows my mind is that we went from the Amstrad to the early 3D games era (N64/Playstation) in under 10 years.

Whereas now...

https://i.imgur.com/Q1TR0xz.jpg

This (Mass Effect 1) was 13 years ago. :think: