Your First PC

by **Sidekick Floppy** » Sun Jun 01, 2003 4:23 am

My first PC, accually belonged to my dad, was a Commodore 02/86 with 8MB RAM and 40Mb HD (Doublespace made it around 75Mb).

MS-DOS 6.0 was installed (still have the 3.5" Floppies) and also MS Windows 3.11

Played games like Wolfenstein 3D, Bluesbrothers, Commander Keen 1 -> 6, even a Apache heli 3D sim (forgot the name).

First PC I bought myself was a Intel PIII 450MHz. It is still in service as a Win2K Advanced server for routing internet, MSN and BFRM 2.0 Beta

by **Chacal** » Sun Jun 01, 2003 4:44 am

Originally posted by Yadad
ahhh the trash 80....us commodore folks shunned the tandy radio shack users like lepers.

yall made me go and dig my system out of the attic...is this mint condition or what?

You kept the BOXES? :eek:

by **Chacal** » Sun Jun 01, 2003 4:46 am

Originally posted by FLOPPY
Played games like Wolfenstein 3D, Bluesbrothers, Commander Keen 1 -> 6, even a Apache heli 3D sim (forgot the name).

Apache. Got it with my P200 in 1997.

by **BladeRunner** » Sun Jun 01, 2003 8:53 am

Commodore VIC-20
then moved up to the Commodore 64 as soon as it came out.
yes Enjin "The tape drive SUCKED"

i really like the first 5 1/4 disk drive i bought for the c64

it held 170K. at the time it cost quite a bit too.

by **Chacal** » Sun Jun 01, 2003 12:45 pm

PRESS RECORD AND PLAY ON TAPE

Hey, I have a C64 emulator for the PC. Works quite well. Lots of games have been transferred. There's even a diagram for interfacing the 1541 disk drive with a PC.
:cool:

by **-=LOW=-Random** » Sun Jun 01, 2003 11:48 pm

Macintosh SE30 at work. Macintosh IIcx at home. My first PC came later and was a pentiumII 233 with a BX chipset mobo and a Diamond Monster 3D card. I can vividly remember my awe at playing DescentII in 3D for the first time on my rockin 112k ISDN line.

by **Homestar_Runner** » Mon Jun 02, 2003 7:32 am

Anybody remember the Lesiure Suit Larry Series? Man, that was some crazy stuff back-in-the-day!

by **yaDad** » Mon Jun 02, 2003 8:38 am

LSL was great i have a game for PC that runs DOS of them games....havent seen it in a while...might have a scavenger hunt for it.

by **yaDad** » Mon Jun 02, 2003 8:54 am

Originally posted by Chacal
You kept the BOXES?

i have no clue why but i even have the registration cards and stuff....check this out and see the hints to what the future held....

by **yaDad** » Mon Jun 02, 2003 9:00 am

wrong picture really

by **BladeRunner** » Mon Jun 02, 2003 10:07 am

Yadad, you may just have some very collectible items.
if i was you i would hang on to them, you never know
what may turn into a rare item some day. (i gave all my
old stuff away, no room for all of it)

by **Camel toe joe** » Mon Jun 02, 2003 10:14 am

I have a leisure suit larry collection pack haven't used it since i bought it

by **yaDad** » Mon Jun 02, 2003 11:43 am

me thinks i will....hang on to it a little more
not gonna put it on eBay yet...

hooked it up and see if it would work last night....presto just fine.

do 5.25 floppys ever go bad?

zork 1 loaded just fine!!!

by **Cpl. Bingham** » Mon Jun 02, 2003 11:52 am

Sad thing is software has very little collectable value now, and probably won't ever(until it's really, REALLY old).

The software itself may have nostalgic value, but it's encased in a cheap, throwaway media. And most items that have collectable value usually display such value not long after they appear. Look at DVD's, some hard to find "older" titles already go for over $100, and DVD's themselve are less than a decade old. Software has been around 30+ years and has yet to show any collectable value.

by **BladeRunner** » Mon Jun 02, 2003 11:58 am

"do 5.25 floppys ever go bad?"

yes i think so, the magnetism can leak or bleed making
the disk hard or impossible to read. i heard its best not
to store the disks stacked one against each other. (causes
the bleeding to happen quicker)
one source of information:

http://www.clir.org/pubs/archives/ensuring.pdf

in that article they say 5-10 years for magnetic disks, but
your disks are all ready older than that.

i remember Zork

some tough puzzles

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