Comments on: Still Mired in the Past

By: John Nowak

John Nowak — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 04:23:09 +0000

1981. A couple of thousand on an IBM PC. With two floppy drives, and graphics card so I could run the APL compiler. I could even run SpellStar.

Some years later, I remember telling a Xerox salesman that his company out to look into writing a driver for this new shell called Windows, because nobody else was using GEM Desktop.

By: mike abbott

mike abbott — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 20:32:03 +0000

I used to love M.U.L.E. on my atari 800 , many ,many, years ago

By: The Comics Shrew

The Comics Shrew — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 17:12:04 +0000

Oh, the good old days. I started off with a TRS-80 with a cassette tape drive and game cartridge port (sadly, I wasn’t really allowed games) and the RF switch for the television. First in a long line of antiquated machines that continues to this day. The Tandy 1000 lasted me through my first year of college, after which I got a(n already obsolete) computer with a hard drive and no longer had to boot to DOS and save to floppy.

By: George

George — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 14:44:24 +0000

Kangaroo and Vanguard were two good games for the 5200. And I had about a hundred others. those two stick out

By: Aaron Sapp

Aaron Sapp — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 13:03:05 +0000

My family went through 4 Commodore 64s. We’d use it until it died then get a new one. That was the only computer we had before getting a 386 when I was in high school.

By: Jon H

Jon H — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 04:52:33 +0000

I made the mistake of asking my parents for the Intellivision computer module. What a useless piece of crap *that* was.