Conquer Club

What was your first computer? Your first modem? Your first external drive?

My first computer was an Apple IIc. My first modem was 2400 Baud. My first external drive was a 128k virtual memory drive (basically a way you could seamlessly copy a 128k floppy disk onto a blank without needing two separate floppy drives.)

Can't remember the specs of any old PCs but I do still have a couple of old 1-2MB PS1 memory cards hanging around.

My first computer, hmm?

Well, I do recall how Thruwg would paint intersecting red ochre lines on the wall of the Cave of the Beasts in order to calculate optimal number and placement of spear-chuckers for our hunting expeditions (or when we warred with the Sabertooth Clan in the next valley). He also developed a method for randomly drawing colored pebbles out of a dire wolf skull to equitably distribute the mammoth meat after a hunt (or human meat in the case of war).

Thruwg was a real brainiac. I always knew he was going to go places in the upper echelons of the shaman hierarchy.
I kinda lost contact with him after he invented that round, rolling thing. He had a name for that, but I forget...

How do you remember that shit DoD?

Pretty sure mine was a smokin commodore 64 in the mid 80s. I remember in my computer science classes using punch cards to code and causing an infinite loop in the school main frame that caused some real problems

No idea on the other shit.

Recall in the early 90s that upgrading our hard drives was a buck a meg

Abacus

Macintosh

First and only game console Odyssey II

I taught computer programmers before the home computer was a thing. I left the industry just about the time the IBM Peanut came out.

--------My first was the Commodore Vic-20 , I had a lot of programming books...Learned to type in lines and lines of codes...To make things...Like a WW1 Plane etc....Then I got a Commodore 64, Later the upgraded version...To play chess...On the tape deck. Sargon I/or II (Chess)...On floppy...Chessmaster 2000/0r 01...Other war games... Basically stopped programming, Thought of getting a Commodore Amiga...But by then , School, Working...More, not just the family store, but Burger King...I still have them...As my old Sega Model 2 Genesis... During lockdown 3 years ago...I played some of my old Commodore 64 war games and Sega...But my. 1st Today's computer setup was Windows XP...
-------- I have been playing the past few months on Sega... Romancing the 3 Kingdoms 3...And Liberty or Death...During the load up... Liberty (A lady) is holding a White Flag, Why is Liberty holding a surrender flag??? ...You can be Washington, or Thomas Gage(British)...It is more fun playing the British ( for strategy)...It is harder...The longer the game goes... America and Britain can have 5 fleets...Soon the French and Spanish, make it 15 fleets to 5...They pour troops in...In a already over matched British army...The American army and their loyalists...Have more than The Royal Army and the British loyalists...Winning playing America is to easy...... ConfederateSS.out!(The Blue and Silver Rebellion)...
------?SYNTAX ERROR...
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Dukasaur asked

What was your first computer? Your first modem? Your first external drive?

I do not know about the modem, but my first computer was a Mac that had a WHOPPING .....

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.... 1 MB of memory, crazy big at that time. It was a Mac.

I now have a huge external drive, but I cannot recall its size, like 500 MB or so.

I have little info about my first modem, but did have one for dial-up to the ISP called Earthlink.

jusplay4fun wrote:Dukasaur asked

What was your first computer? Your first modem? Your first external drive?

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-------- Jp4fun....Do you not know what a "SYNTAX ERROR", Is/means???... ...Maybe only Commodore had them??? ... ConfederateSS.out!(The Blue and Silver Rebellion)...

KoolBak wrote:How do you remember that shit DoD?

Getting a computer was a big milestone. It was like getting your first car or getting your first taste of a pussy that wasn't imaginary.

Never forgettable!

I remember in my computer science classes using punch cards to code and causing an infinite loop in the school main frame that caused some real problems

Yeah, in my last year of high school, we went up to Waterloo University on one of those 'career exploration' junkets, to see if they could make Comp majors out of us. Most of the guys were doing things like getting the computer to print out factorial tables and stuff. I got the computer to print out a giant banner with the lyrics to the Sex Pistols' Bodies.

KoolBak wrote:Recall in the early 90s that upgrading our hard drives was a buck a meg

Hell, that 128k virtual drive for my Apple cost $125. Damn near a buck a K! Buck a meg, ha!

I started with an Atari 520ST computer (they actually made computers, not just video game consoles!) back in the 80s. It came standard with no hard drive, 1/2 MB of RAM, and a 720KB floppy drive. At one point, I got a RAM upgrade kit, which was much more involved than just snapping in a new RAM card. I actually had to clip some wires and do some soldering to the main computer board to attach a new PCB to it. It did require me to learn efficient programming practices to create physics simulation software that would run within those computing limitations! I was able to connect up to BBSs using a 1200baud modem. Fun times!

Bought a Packard Bell in 91, in an effort to grab all the data from the Persian Gulf war and download it from a non existent web.
No idea on the modem.

Ralfs girlfriend's first computer was an Iphone 10

mookiemcgee wrote:Ralfs girlfriend's first computer was an Iphone 10

Whereas yours probably only uses the internet once every 3 months.

bigtoughralf wrote:

mookiemcgee wrote:Ralfs girlfriend's first computer was an Iphone 10

Whereas yours probably only uses the internet once every 3 months.

I don't let her use the internet anymore after she got caught in a phishing scam and bought $2,000 worth of gift cards at walmart the 'paypal rep' told her to.

Memory: 1 KB (16 KB max.) -- I had a 4k expansion pack until I drowned it
CPU: Z80 @ 3.25-3.55 MHz
Display: Monochrome display on UHF television - if you opened her up and inverted the graphics chip it would invert the colours
Graphics: 24 lines × 32 characters or; 64 × 48 block graphics mode




Unfortunately one drunk night, I inverted all the chips to see what would happen and it caught fire

The first computer I used was an IBM 5100 that my dad brought home for work:

It only ran APL, so that was the first language I learned.
Here's a one-line implementation of "Conway's Game of Life" in APL:

life ← {⊃1 ⍵ ∨.∧ 3 4 = +/ +⌿ ¯1 0 1 ∘.⊖ ¯1 0 1 ⌽¨ ⊂⍵}