Microprose

[old.Jas]

My first computer was a 386SX 16Mhz with a stupidly large 4mb of RAM and a phat 80mb hard disk.

This machine was the dog's danglies - it was faster than the server at school.

 

[xane]

Originally posted by bids
Anyone remember the Amstrad PPC512 'portable' ?
My first 'proper' PC after a Spectrum - little LCD greenscreen, 4.77 Mhz 8088 and 10 Mb hard drive - ran Microprose Stealth Fighter a treat back in 1990

Also coincidently after my Spectrum, my first PC (not homebuild) was an Amstrad PPC640DD, just two 720k stiffies, but it had a modem and I used it for years afterwards to access BBS, I got a mono CGA screen for it.

Being a sucker for cheap quality I moved on to an Amstrad PC2286 12Mhz, I had the foresight to take out on-site insurance at £350/year, I had the motherboard replaced four times ! After realising how "upgradeable" standard machines actually were I then moved onto homebuilds with a 286 8Mhz mobo, I still have this one somewhere.

You young whippersnappers are lucky with RAM SIMMs and DIMMs, in my day you had to put the DRAM chips in one by one, it was a bugger sorting out which one went wrong !

 

[Damini]

I still have an amiga 500. Its sat next to me. My little spare room I type in is like a computers grave yard, and Kenny won't let me throw any of it away Two monitors, a printer, a casing, lord knows how many keyboards I've hidden under the bed, And an Amiga 500 (boxed) Cartoon Classics Version, with Captain Planet (He's Our Hero! Gonna Take Pollution Down To Zero! He's Our Powers Magnified! And He's Fighting On The Planets Side!!!!!) Lemmings, The Simpsons versus the Space Mutants, and the artistic black obelisk that was DPaint III.

If anyone wants it, have it, take it, get all dewey eyed and remember days of yore, alternatively club someone to death with it, use it as a coffee table, anything... I don't want it anymore

 

[bids]

Originally posted by camazotz



You young whippersnappers are lucky with RAM SIMMs and DIMMs, in my day you had to put the DRAM chips in one by one, it was a bugger sorting out which one went wrong !

lol - my speciality was bending the little legs when pushing them into the mobo - then breaking off when trying to straighten them.

 

[Insane]

In my attic resides a Commadore 16, a dismantled Commadore 64, speccy 128x2 and an Amiga 600

my shelves tell a different story tho

the "Nuklear Reactor" sits on the bottom shelf (well actually the floor, the shelf broke a while ago and we couldn't be arsed trying to lift it)
Its an old 486dx 33 with 4mb ram and a 80mb hdd (oohhh!), and it earned its name because of its seemingly "lead" case, weighs a bloody tonne and hurts most people who try to move it.. you can see why its on the bottom

best old system has to be "Cindy" , she's a dual Pentium Pro 200 with 192mb ram and two scsi RAID controllers in her i got from work recently.. noisy as fook but great for freeBSD to run on
long story about her name, it came about because of a mates girlfriend always phoning us looking for him (he had lost his phone), so we said one night "he's with cindy playing with her" and the server name stuck from then onwards... pity she didnt see the funny side of it

 

[old.Jas]

Duel PPro? That must have cost a fortune when it was built.

 

[prime1]

Started on one of those "consoles" that had a controler that consisted of a wheel. It had 8 buitl in games and u flipped a switch to tell it which game to play.

Such legends as tennis (a ball going horixontally between two lines - controlle dby the players) and duckhunt (shoot the box with the lightgun). Cant remember what it was called though.

Then rose to an Acorn Electron

The blistering power of a Spectrum 48k then beckoned, not too too much later than the frankly frightening Spectrum 128k (although there really was no difference between the 2 for games).

Bit of a jump then to a 486 dx 33, with a disgustingly extravagant 120 mb HDD and 4mb RAM (later upgraded to 8mb RAm and an additional 220mb HDD AND a 1x CD ROM - ph34r)

Next a p200 MMX, then a p3 500, now an athlon 1.4.

Stil havnt found a game that captivated me as much as gunship 2000 (microprose ;p) or Monkey Island 2 did though

 

[PR.]

Originally posted by Damini
I still have an amiga 500. Its sat next to me. My little spare room I type in is like a computers grave yard, and Kenny won't let me throw any of it away Two monitors, a printer, a casing, lord knows how many keyboards I've hidden under the bed, And an Amiga 500 (boxed) Cartoon Classics Version, with Captain Planet (He's Our Hero! Gonna Take Pollution Down To Zero! He's Our Powers Magnified! And He's Fighting On The Planets Side!!!!!) Lemmings, The Simpsons versus the Space Mutants, and the artistic black obelisk that was DPaint III.

If anyone wants it, have it, take it, get all dewey eyed and remember days of yore, alternatively club someone to death with it, use it as a coffee table, anything... I don't want it anymore

Haha, I used to have an Amiga A500+ and half those games came bundled with it (Captain Planet, lol) my favourite love to loath games were Shadow of the Beast and Workbench's Speech program.

 

[Hashmonster]

my first proper pc was a 486DX4 100mhz! cost us £1100 from comet back in 1996

But before that it was all types of comordores and amigas...

 

[~YuckFou~]

I started on an 8088, cant remember the exact specs. Ah the bad old days.........