Denis Gobo started up a new meme about your first computer and favorite games.
My first computer was a Tandy 1000SX with 640KB of RAM that my family got when I was 9 or 10, I think. My dad quickly overclocked it to an astounding 7.6 MHz of pure Intel 8088 power and added a 20 MB hard drive. For the time, it was an amazing computer.
My two favorite games were Elite and Starflight. Proving that my love of sci-fi and space opera began a very long time ago.
That Tandy 1000, with its noisy dot matrix printer and 16 color graphics, served as my primary computer until 1999 when I received an upgrade to a 60 MHz Gateway machine.
I’m going to go ahead and tag Rick Kierner since most of the data folks seem to have been tagged at this point.
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Let’s not forget that the 20 MB hard drive used an ESDI interface. And what of that blazing-fast 2400 baud modem used to get on BBSs?
You know, if I told everyone how classy the Handy Dandy Tandy was, people wouldn’t believe the awesome modifications to it. Like the sweet three button mouse that was as ergonomic as a kick in the wrist.
I liked Moon Patrol on the Commodore 64, though I had a Vic20 before that. I remember writing code to cassette tapes that would have held two minutes of music but cost 10x more than the Maxell 90 minute blanks because they had a “Commodore” sticker on them.
Aaron, I vaguely recall my father having some kind of horrible tape driven computer before the Tandy, it had this ugly plastic blister keyboard and you could play a game called Minotaur. I seem to recall getting in serious trouble because I accidentally ruined one of the tapes through some kind of child-like meddling.
Well, since I was tagged, I figured I would probably participate.
http://rickdoes.net/post/2009/02/18/What-was-your-first-computer-and-what-were-some-of-your-favorite-games.aspx
You had a mouse?! And a hard-drive?! LUXURY! When I got a 3.5″ drive for my EX, it seemed cutting-edge!