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  On 6/18/2019 at 9:47 PM, Ridgewaycynic2013 said:

I had already stuccoed and rechiseled my tablet many times when that kid Moses schlepped by with the Fifteen Commandments on his three tablets.

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THANK YOU for the edit! I’m sure it makes life easier! 

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In college the mainframe was a CDC Cyber 70.

When I started working, I used a Honeywell 6000.

A few years later we started using VAX computers.

Then we started using workstations instead of mainframes.

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  On 6/18/2019 at 7:21 PM, plenzmd1 said:

Prolly first used a Think Pad in like 92 or 93..work would have given it to me to use for demos and such. First computer I owned outright was a Gateway..prolly 95 or 96???? I did have one of these in 87 though! 

 

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in the mid to late 80's, i had a brick.

 

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  On 6/18/2019 at 7:52 PM, teef said:

i was born in 77, so the apple ll was out, but i the first computer in the house that i remember was the apple ll e.  i'm not sure what the difference was, but i thought that ***** was the best.

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I was '78, and the first one was an Apple II+. There used to be an Apple-only store somewhere in the Northtowns (I think) that my dad would take us to. It was a small house. 

Choplifter was my favorite game. 

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  On 6/19/2019 at 11:21 AM, plenzmd1 said:

Those were crazy expensive no? That was a real cell phone!

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i think when they first came out, they went for something like $4k or more. when i got one, it was somewhere around $2k. i managed to convince my boss that we needed it for work and got them to pay for half the cost.

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  On 6/19/2019 at 5:27 PM, Seasons1992 said:

 

I was '78, and the first one was an Apple II+. There used to be an Apple-only store somewhere in the Northtowns (I think) that my dad would take us to. It was a small house. 

Choplifter was my favorite game. 

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choplifter was the balls.  my other favorites were lode runner, wolfenstein, and a bad ass version of conan.

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Somewhere in the attic are old ‘recorded from air’ television shows from the late 90s, complete with commercials.  Noted there from $2000 to $2400, the Future Shop chain was selling desktop computers with the same memory capacity as 2019’s musical greeting cards are equipped with.  In the four years between buying our first pc to our second pc (1997 - 2001) from a computer specialist store, the price of a CD burner there dropped from $10000 to about $150.  Yes, ten thousand.

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  On 6/19/2019 at 6:11 PM, ShadyBillsFan said:

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Are these computer graphics or Rorschach tests?  The second one is either Jabba the Hut or a pile of dogc*** sitting in a recliner, left side.

  On 6/19/2019 at 6:11 PM, ShadyBillsFan said:

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in the early to mid 80's .. these were top of the line.  

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That explains that ‘lost generation’...

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Wolfenstein

DOOM 

Duke Nukem

  On 6/19/2019 at 6:16 PM, Ridgewaycynic2013 said:

Are these computer graphics or Rorschach tests?  The second one is either Jabba the Hut or a pile of dogc*** sitting in a recliner, left side.

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the graphics were so bad in Wolfenstein you could litterally get sick following along 

they got better with  DOOM  and Duke Nukem

 

 

some of the games were Text driven 

 

Turn left pick up glass

[execute graphics] 

 

Take hooker to bed

[execute graphics] 

You died from a disease because you forgot to wear a condom 

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