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My first computer was a packard bell 75mhz pentium with 8mb ram and 2x cd-rom. A friend later got an identical system but with a "quad speed" cd-rom. lol remember when games would come on like 20 floppy disks?



And when floppy disks were 5 1/4 inches (or cassette tapes).
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Roffensian wrote:
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My first computer was a packard bell 75mhz pentium with 8mb ram and 2x cd-rom. A friend later got an identical system but with a "quad speed" cd-rom. lol remember when games would come on like 20 floppy disks?



And when floppy disks were 5 1/4 inches (or cassette tapes).


Lol my first was a Commodore 64. I can still remember having to type in the codes liked run "file name" ,8,1 to play my games. And an Oki Printer with the holes on the edges Of the paper that had to be fed through the printer, what a pain in the @$$ that was.

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Roffensian wrote:
RJRJRJ wrote:
My first computer was a packard bell 75mhz pentium with 8mb ram and 2x cd-rom. A friend later got an identical system but with a "quad speed" cd-rom. lol remember when games would come on like 20 floppy disks?



And when floppy disks were 5 1/4 inches (or cassette tapes).


I was just on the cusp of 3.5". That was back around the time when AOL was only giving like 3 free hours.

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RJRJRJ wrote:
My first computer was a packard bell 75mhz pentium with 8mb ram and 2x cd-rom. A friend later got an identical system but with a "quad speed" cd-rom. lol remember when games would come on like 20 floppy disks?


I remember when "games" was just something called Pong!

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My first (high school) was an applesoft clone with a single 5-1/4" floppy and green & black crt. I had a lot of fun learning basic programming (poke & peek anyone?), playing lode runner & taipan and batch file (.bat) "automation". Then in college I moved up to a top-of-the-line $2000 toshiba laptop with monochrome non-backlit "widescreen" lcd (only 1/2 the length of the laptop opens as a screen) with dual 3-1/2" disk drives running $300 PFS: First Choice word processor/database "office"!...

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sharkman wrote:
RJRJRJ wrote:
My first computer was a packard bell 75mhz pentium with 8mb ram and 2x cd-rom. A friend later got an identical system but with a "quad speed" cd-rom. lol remember when games would come on like 20 floppy disks?


I remember when "games" was just something called Pong!


I still play that on my iPhone...that, tetris, and labyrinth
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MY first computer that I can remember having as a kid ran at a blazing 4.77 mHz, had no HDD and I am not even sure it had any RAM. Two 5.25" disk drives and a 3 color monitor Red, Green, and blue. I just narrowly missed the black and green monochrome screens. The most it would run was text based adventure games like ZORK. No Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards on that machine
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