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Old 19-07-2020, 11:13 PM #1
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Default What computer did your family have when you were a child?

i had when i was a standard dekstop.
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i had when i was a standard dekstop.
You were a desktop computer?

That's pretty neat.

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






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 .


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i had a classic

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i had a classic

Same, the amazing ability to write hello upside down.
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i had a classic

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 Ł2. It would be worth over Ł100 today. God knows what happened to it .

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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






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 .


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



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

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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...



This (Mass Effect 1) was 13 years ago.
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