What is the oldest computer you can remember using?

[alan8325]

What is the oldest computer that you can remember using that was actually the top-of-the line computer at the time?

I can remember using a 286. I know it was at least nearly state-of-the art when I was using it, and I think the 386 was out. I normally played games on my sega genesis, but there were a couple I played on the 286, like Road Runner and Black Cauldron. I think I actually still have it in the garage somewhere.

I played sega genesis for a while, but finally got a 486 when I played a demo of Aces of the Pacific at a computer store in the mall and wanted to play it at home. That was basically when I started playing computer games more than console games. I'm 23, BTW.

 

[Neutrino]

Mac Classic. 12 inches of black and white glory.

The 40 meg HD was pretty mind boggling.

 

[h00dlum]

My dads first computer it was some weird thing you connected to the TV the games and programs was on tapes, i remember playing some Space Invanders game on it, the gfx in the game was letters . i think the system was called Spectrum or something..

 

[Reaktor4]

C64. Dunno if it was top of the line at the time.

 

[The Monkey]

WHen my family got its first computer, it was the best at the market. 166 MzH, 16 MB RAM and 3 GB harddrive!!!!!

 

[Lil' Timmy]

well, i recall using a computer at school when i was a kid that had some kind of dos on it, i don't recall what it was though. it was one solid piece, a monochrome (green) like 8-inch monitor was on the left side of the molded case. the right side had 3.5 and 5.25 floppy drives, kb in front.

the earliest pc i used that i remember then name of was an apple IIc.

 

[Grand Architect]

a 286 long before we had sound cards.

 

[alan8325]

a 286 long before we had sound cards.

My 286 didn't have a sound card either. There were like 4 tones of beeps that it used for everything, including music. The monitor was like 8 colors or something. Everything looked pink.

 

[AudioRage]

Commadore 64

 

[DreamThrall]

My grandfather's Apple II... Those things with the green screens, dual 5 1/4" floppy drives (no hard disk!) and the keyboard built into the CPU. Oh, glory glory! Either those or these Radioshack TRS-84s (?) that my elementary school had for their typing class... by that time I had already learned BASIC

 

[Bad^Hat]

Celeron 366, 64mb ram, 4mb s3 card

I think when we got this the PII 500 had just come out. It was about $3,500 all up, including 15" monitor, crappola keyboard/mouse, and a piece of arse Lexmark...

 

[Burn]

I dont rememeber, all I remember was playing with computer sound (No sound card/speakers) And useing those large floppy disks, about 16 of them to play stuff like police quest 5.. or something.

 

[Bad^Hat]

I remember playing my Atari we got from our cousins. I almost cried when Stunt Racer stopped working ;(

 

[Grand Architect]

hehe, Frogger and pitfall where the best games. First game I can still remeber playing on the PC was Money Inland, hell if I still had it I'd play it right now.

 

[Orgonomist]

First computer I ever had was an Amiga 500. Leisure Suit Larry, Bubble Bobble, Shadow of the Beast, King's Quest. Superfrog. New Zealand Story ( ). We actually used to buy our games from some pirate who advertised in the local newspaper. Damn, that thing lasted forever.

Had an older system at school, but I don't remember what it was.

 

[Gunner]

It was a C64, but that's not really a pc hehe. My first pc was a compaq 486sx 25mhz with 4mb RAM! lol

My brother and I spotted the pc running Wolf3D on a demo loop and we couldn't resist, we knew we had to have it

 

[DreamThrall]

mmm.... wolf3d ... i remember having to play that with a PC speaker instead of a sound card... haha... the guards blooped at you when they spotted you... lol... ahh, back in the way when you could still use the keyboard to aim in a FPS....

 

[oldagerocker]

my first pc was a 486 running windows 3.1, i played Blake Stone on it but it ran out of memory and hdd space all the time. Also played a game with 2 gorilla's throwing banana's at each other and destroying buildings around them, that game was really good. Also played a version of Snake called worms i think. all good gaming fun

 

[DreamThrall]

Also played a game with 2 gorilla's throwing banana's at each other and destroying buildings around them, that game was really good. Also played a version of Snake called worms i think. all good gaming fun

mmm... QBASIC.....

 

[DizzyOne]

an appleII
5,25 floppies etc

must have been top-of-the-line 10 years before i was born or something, anyways it was pretty damn old skool
as far as a i know even older then a c64

played return to castle wolfenstein on it (the game before wolf3d)

(and nope its not those small white macintosh blocks with screen included where you played loadrunner on)

 

[DreamThrall]

played return to castle wolfenstein on it (the game before wolf3d)

What? I think you've got those mixed up.... Unless there was a 2D version I didn't know/care about

 

[CptStern]

texas instruments Ti-99 ..circa 1980

 

[qckbeam]

Here she is, my first.

 

[jaguar_987]

A C64 or ZX-Spectrum... can't remember which came first.

The first PC I had was a 386 running at 66mhz i think, 4mb or ram, I remember we thought we were the shit cos we had a 1gb hd.

 

[oldagerocker]

What? I think you've got those mixed up.... Unless there was a 2D version I didn't know/care about

there was a 2d platform game iirc. :naughty:

 

[rkef]

Mac Classic. 12 inches of black and white glory.

The 40 meg HD was pretty mind boggling.

Sweet, same here.

I remember spending days/nights coding terrible games in Turbo Pascal, with Ingemar Ragnemalm's excellent Sprite Animation Toolkit, with the Talking Moose incessantly chattering away at me.

 

[SubKamran]

A 386 cyrix... haha. :naughty:

 

[Dr. Freeman]

my first computer?

have a look at this baby

 

[CptStern]

my first computer?

have a look at this baby

yay! my first computer in highschool ...they had a computer lab and everything ..the lab had 4 computers...we were state of the art

 

[Gunner]

have a look at this baby

SPEED 1 mHz
RAM 4 KB

 

[Dr. Freeman]

SPEED 1 mHz
RAM 4 KB

yes.. i am so proud to have used that vaccum cleaner

 

[mindless_moder]

486...the oldest comp that ive handled is a comodore.

 

[h00dlum]

SPEED 1 mHz
RAM 4 KB

Guy Tailor reports:
(99% sure this is true...). The following app will cause the Pet 2001 to catch fire!!!
10 motor 1
20 motor 0
30 goto 10
It turns the tape motor on and off so quickly, it overheats and... flames!!

LOL

 

[Ames]

286.

Ugly piece of crap..:|

 

[NetWarriorDan]

Back in WW2 we used a computer like machine to try to decode enigma, the german code used to communicate with submarines. We almost had it too. But then we captured one of their submarine and the enigma machine in it.

 

[Fishlore]

First console: Intellivision
First Computer: Apple IIe

 

[joule]

I don't exactly remember what my oldest computer was, but I do know that it was 133MHz.
I remember what my first home console, though.
Sega Genesis.

 

[DoctorGordon]

8 mhz home-made comp

 

[dys4iK]

Back in WW2 we used a computer like machine to try to decode enigma, the german code used to communicate with submarines. We almost had it too. But then we captured one of their submarine and the enigma machine in it.

Almost, but nowhere near an authorative history on the subject

 

[UmbrellaMaster]

A nice old 486. I don't even remember the specs on it, but I do remember that the next computer we got had the option for a CD-ROM drive and I about crapped my pants.