A trip down memory lane: your console/computer history

[reds4ever]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison
I think it went in this order, pretty much...

BBC Master 128K
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Ha ha, the "spoilt brat" computer, that explains a lot....

[Provost Harrison]

[Provost Harrison]

I don't think I'd have been able to cope with a cassette...I've always hated tapes...even as a music format. I switched over to CDs as quickly as I could...

[Richelieu]

Pentium 200 w MMX -> Athlon 1 Gig -> Athlon 3200

[Leifmk]

In the 1980s when I was a schoolboy:

Vic 20 (1983)
Commodore 64 (1984)
Amiga 500 (1987)

Then came a long period when I had no computer I could call mine and only used various borrowed hardware (i.e. the PCs at university, or my parents' box when I was home for holidays).

My first own PC was purchased in 1998 and was a 400 MHz affair with 64 megs of RAM. That was actually rather a lot at the time.

My current PC is a "laptop" purchased last year -- one of those Hewlett-Packard monstrosities built around a regular P4 processor (3 GHz; it produces a lot of waste heat, to the delight of our cat who likes to lie just behind it) and a 17" widescreen monitor. Currently fitted with 1.25 gigabytes of RAM. All for about half the price of what I paid for the old PC in 1998.

The only console I've ever had is a PS2, which I play with occasionally.

[alva]

to the delight of our cat who likes to lie just behind it) and a 17" widescreen monitor.

héhé, mine often too, sleep on the PC or even on the monitor.

[duke o' york]

Binatone (don't know what model, but it played pong and some kind of weird motorcross game.)
Spectrum
Amiga
Gameboy
PS1
PS2 (on loan, now returned)
PC - Dell Inspiron 5150 if you must know (reading off the casing)

But my mates have had all sorts, so I've played on a wide range - BBC, C64, Atari ST, Megadrive, N64, Genesis, Gamecube, X-basket, others I can't remember.

[Ecthy]

Console:

- ATARI 2600

PCs:

- 3/86, 4MB RAM, 80MB HDD
- Pentium 90 something
- Pentium II 350
- Athlon X sth 2000+ sth... I've lost track of this stuff, couldn't give you exact info on my current system

[Zkribbler]

Re: A trip down memory lane: your console/computer history

Originally posted by nostromo
... I bet some polytubbies are too young to have known cassette tapes. lol:

My first computer was a TRS-80 (aka "Trash-80")...Audio cassette I/O device and a whopping 4k RAM.

[Arrian]

Pretty much in order:

Pong
Commodore 64
Nintendo (original)
Sega (original)
IBM Compatible 386
Gateway 400mhz speed (Pentium II?)
Playstation I
IBM Compatible (built by a friend), 1.6 ghz speed (Pentium III or IV?)

-Arrian

[Verto]

Consoles:

Super Nintendo
Sega Genesis
Atari Lynx
Playstation
Xbox
GameCube

As far as computers go, I don't remember the name of the first one we had, I think it was a 386. I don't remember much about it, other than playing Prince of Persia on it. I guess it was Windows 3.0 or something. After that, we bought 2 computers, same brand (can't remember the name though) in succession from like Sam's Club. Next was a Compaq, then an HP, a custom-built PC, and an iMac.

[Kuciwalker]

Re: A trip down memory lane: your console/computer history

Originally posted by nostromo
- Atari 520 ST. Musicians loved the Atari, since it came with MIDI built-in. So I could plug my Synthesizers in it.

Silly frenchies with your broken keyboards

[Nostromo]

Silly frenchies with your broken keyboards

Not sure what you mean. There's either an error somewhere in my sentence (in that case, care to enlighten me, Mary Poppins? ) or you're dissing my synthesizers. In that case, I'll let you know that I had a mother****in' Roland Jupiter 6.

[Kuciwalker]

That's an azerty keyboard in the picture.

[Nostromo]

Ah, I see. I tried Azerty's when I was in France. They aren't bad, once you get used to them. At least, they're 100% french. Better than the half-assed french keyboards we get here. Only Microsoft bothers to make French keyboards here in Canada. And even in that case, all we get is a damn "é". Big deal.