A trip down memory lane: your console/computer history

[Proteus_MST]

Atari2600 Game Console


Commodore C64


Commodore Amiga 500


Then, around 1993 my first PC, a 486DX2-66
then a Pentium 133,
thereafter I don´t know. I think another Pentium with 233MHz
then my predecessor to my current computer, an Athlon T-Bird 900
and now an AMD with 2200 MHz

[Koyaanisqatsi]

PC:
TI-99 (It was kind of both, I guess)
Tandy 1000SX (8088)
Tandy 1100FD (V20 Laptop)
Acer 386DX/33
Some off-brand 386 laptop..don't remember much about it other than that the guy I bought it from left Dune on it.
486DX2/66 (first home-brew)
Prostar 486DX4/100 laptop
P-90
P-200
Athlon 600
Apple Quadra 840/AV
Dual-Celery 300 @450
T-bird 1.0
Palomino 1900+
Barton 2200+ HP Laptop
Winchester 3200+
Core Duo T2400 Dell Laptop

Consoles
TI-99 (Yay M.U.L.E.!!)
Nintendo
Super NES
Genesis
Game Boy
Game Gear
Virtual Boy (yeah, I had one...)
Sega CD
Playstation
GBA
Xbox
PS2

[Bkeela]

I still remember my first encounter with video games. While visiting some family friends, I was introduced to Pong. I must have been around 6 or 7, so it was the late 70's. I must have nagged, because that Christmas we got a Sheen M-1200 Microprocessor Programmable TV Game (Australian clone of the RCA Studio II). It played Doodle, Pattern, Bowling, and Black Jack 1 & 2 and of course Pong.

An Atari 2600 followed. Gave me years of fun.

My next acquisition was a Commodore 64 which pretty much ruined any chance I had at doing well at high school.

Through my late teens I was more interested in drugs, alcohol and dreaming about girls to worry about gaming.

I eventually bought a PC and discovered Civ, Colonization and Doom.

I bought a Gameboy and SNES.

Another dark age occurred when I backpacked overseas.

Continued PC gaming, but eventually got an XBOX, Gamecube and Gameboy Advance.

I'm sick of consoles now, so I'll probably stick with PCs for the foreseeable future.

[joncha]

I still have my vic-20.

[CrONoS]

@Joncha

We ask for pictures! (kiddin)


Does it work?

[Urban Ranger]

The first microcomputer I used is a Radio Shack TRS-80 Model I Level 2 with the Expansion Interface. I programmed in Basic and Z-80 assembly language, and we loaded and saved on casette tapes. That is mainly a trial and error affair that was aided by pulling out the connector and listening for the beginning of the, uh, line noise. But it was mainly a game box. The graphics was the pits with a resolution of something like 64x48 (large moving blocks! ), but we still had lots of fun playing Decathlon and other games. The excitement was very real. At the time I also used a Commodore PET and an Apple II.

My next computer is an Atari 800 which is a quantum leap over the TRS-80 Model I. It had awesome colour (!) graphics, stereo sound, and best of all, M.U.L.E.!

[Pekka]

C64
Amiga500
486
and whole lots of PCs more.

[joncha]

Originally posted by cronos_qc
@Joncha

We ask for pictures! (kiddin)


Does it work?

Last time I checked, yeah. It's missing one of the number keys (7, iirc) but even that still works if you press the stub. I've also still got the external cassette drive.

[The Emperor Fabulous]

Console history:
Commodore 64 (neato)
NES
SNES
Turbo Grafx 16
Nintendo 64
PlayStation
GameCube
PlayStation 2

Computers:
Acer 486, bought for $2,000 in 1994.
HP Somethingorother
Dell Somethingorother
Dell Laptop something given me by Ursinus College for the two year I attended
Northgate POS
Gateway Laptop something or other - bought for $800 a few months ago.

The only things from these lists I bought myself were this Gateway Laptop and the PS2. Everything else was my family's/a Christmas gift.

[Sikander]

The first computers I played around with all belonged to friends who were far wealthier than my family was. My friend Ryan's father was an engineering professor, and they had a TI (about 1976-7) that used cassettes to load its programs. It only took about 20 minutes! A friend in college (met in 1981) had an Ohio Scientific kit built computer (with 4k of RAM!) on which we played a D&D ripoff. No graphics, just characters. Later some of my friends got PCs, others Apples. I played a bit with both.

My first PC I got a couple of years after I got out of the Army. It was (is) an AT, 12 GHZ with 1 meg of RAM and a 20 meg hard drive. This is the machine that I played untold amounts of Civ, Railroad Tycoon, Colonization, War in the Pacific, War in Russia, Korea, Krynn, Buck Rogers, etc. I ran it into the ground, skipping the whole extended memory / 386 / 486 era. Finally the graphics card started getting flaky, and I decided it was time to get a new machine.

That machine was a P2 650, with a 20 gig hdd, half a gig of RAM and a 23" monitor. This was the machine that I got into SMAC/X, EU, Shogun Total War as well as the zillion games that came out during the 386 / 486 era like Master of Magic, Master of Orion, Civ 2, etc. It was (is) great, but I needed more power to run games like Neverwinter Nights etc. So I got my current desktop, a P4 with a 120 gig hdd and 1 gig of RAM, and good graphics card.

I also got a laptop for surfing the net at work between my last 2 machines, a P3 800 which runs Windows 98. I only use it to play DOS games, though it will run a lot other stuff reasonably well. Chances are that anything you've seen on this site written by me has been typed on this machine, including this post.

[alva]

unknown console ( some pong games)
unkown console ( some very basic games like hit the dot)
Philips Videopac
Atari 600XL
Commodore 64
puberty, so no comps here...
Pentium 120 (16MB)
AMD 550 (128MB)
AMD 1400 (756MB)
Amd 2000 (1G)
Amd64 3000 (1G)

Except for the first PC, all self build.

[PLATO]

First computer was an Apple II circa 1978. Only Apple I ever had.

[reds4ever]

Originally posted by alva

puberty, so no comps here...

[Provost Harrison]

I think it went in this order, pretty much...

BBC Master 128K
Atari 520ST
Pentium 90
Pentium 200MMX
Athlon 700 (my mother still uses this one)
Pentium 4 3GHz (this system)

Yeah, that's it...

[Provost Harrison]

The ST is the first computer I played Civ on...