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an actual quote from the speaker at an Amiga Users Group to the audience (including me), SUNY Campus c. 1986
I've seen the Apple ][ GS...
...We Amiga users have nothing to worry about.
If Apple hadn't hamstrung it, Amiga DID have something to worry about. The WDC 65c816 CPU in the GS was specced to run at up to 16MHz. It was locked at 2MHz on the GS. Twice the speed of the 65c02 in the Apple //e and c, but it could have run RINGS around amigas and mac II's......and it had the best sound on the market at the time, right on the mainboard. Graphics were almost identical specs to the Amiga. It could have been an AWESOME machine.
But Apple didn't want to be in the home market, they wanted to be in the business market. It's why the Apple // line died out after the GS......Apple pretty much stopped supporting the apple // line in favor of its Macs, and all the long-time apple // supporters were left out to dry. We never forgot. It's one of the reasons I won't buy much of anything from Apple to this day.
Link or it didn't happen.. Nexus I assume?
My first gaming obsession was Pacman on an Atari 400 circa 1980 (?)
Well, ok...if you insist...
http://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/44344/?
I was in my bodybuilding and motorcycling prime at 50. But by 57 the tide had turned and after that, the subsequent 10 years have been continuing confirmation of the downward trend.
Had my first ancient person surgery last month. 
Survived it though! 
The AARP starts sending you ancient person information at 50, but it's when you start collecting Social Security checks and using Medicare in your mid-'60s that you start to notice the body bits falling off. 
I started gaming with Adventure, AKA colossal cave - on a honeywell mainframe. Six monthhs later I dropped $6,000 on an IBM pc with 64K of ram, two 5.25 inch full-height single-sided floppy drives ($540 each) and a copy of Adventure.
Kill Dragon!
I've been down this "my computer was older than yours" road several times before. I'm not competing this time. Just showing you a photo. Lyndon Johnson was president and the original Star Trek was still new and on the air.
"I don't see that here."
(didn't you hate that response?)
And of course, the obligatory....
"You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike."
Very dark, just like a like it. LOL Good use of color for ambiance.
The first computer I ever used was a TRS-80. State of the art, with 48KB of RAM, and two floppy drives, so you could put the program disk in one, and your data disk in the other.
My dad got started on a Univac 1108, which was at the time the only computer in his state.
My Grandfather told me about a time when computers hadn't generally been heard of. He drove his horse and buggy into town to see the first motor car that ever drove in. You had to go around the front and crank a handle to start it. He remembered the first time an airplane ever flew over the district. It was made out of wood and cloth, and yeah, you had to go around the front and crank the propeller by hand to start it. We still have his first phone. You lift the ear piece off its hook and spin the handle a few times to ring the exchange and talk into the mouthpiece attached to the box. It would still work too only the telephone exchange doesn't work quite the same way any more. That and there are no wires to attach to the the terminals in the box. I have a phone that fits comfortably in my pocket and I can use it to comminicate with multiple people in different parts of the world at the same time. I'm not 50 yet but it brings home how relatively fast you are ageing when your 18 year old nephew seems at a loss for what to do when he can't get a connection. What is really scary is when I then feel inclined to say, 'Back in my day....' :).
Lol. Asking young'ens if they know what a rotary phone is is good for a laugh.
Honestly, for the last 10 yrs ive felt like I stepped into a time machine and the throttle got stuck in the fast forward position. It just wont stop!
Yep, just trying to keep up with it all is enough to make you feel old.
I love her username! Lady Phoenix Fire Rose! From the screenshots, it looks like she did a great job!
Rotary phone with a party line really bugs their eyes out when you explain it. lol
Try explaining how to dial a number just by tapping the switch-hook. :-)
Ah, we had one of those when I was a kid! Shh, don't tell anyone, but I eavesdropped once or twice!
LOL, I totally forgot about the party line. We had one of those when I was a kid.
I know, right? How couldnt you eavesdrop? We never really got along with the neighbor kids either. So we just had to listen in.
why not:
now i am proud !
I remember, when I was a kid, it was impossible to visualize myself at the age of 40, even. 40 came and went quite awhile ago. I see now what my grandmother meant when she said she still felt sixteen -- inside.
Essentially multiplexing on string and tin cans!
I visited the original Star Trek set as a teenager. So there. And the IBM 1130 computer was not my first computer, but occupied a good deal of my high school years. My first computer was something called the AN/FSQ-32. Did you know that you can download an 1130 emulator? Just in case you've missed IOCS cards. I think there's one at the British Computer Museum.
This conversation always reminds me of the Monty Python sketch ("When _I_ was a boy, we walked in the school in the snow - uphill, both ways! - and had gruel for dinner!" "You got _gruel_? We drank poison..." etc etc).
Actually my first computer was a "Digicomp-1" plastic 3-bit computer with rubberband flipflops. It could add, subtract and count (up or down) in a 3-bit register!
I had it sitting on top of my computers at the Kennedy Space Center during the '70s and when I was a consultant for Hewlett Packard big iron machines during the '90s. It's lost now. 
I should have had it mounted in a glass faced box with an attached mallet and a sign that said "In Emergency Break Glass". 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digi-Comp_I
My grandad claimed to have helped do some of the steps on Tower Bridge ... ;)
Ha!
My first PC : TRS-80 Model III with 2x 5-1/4 floppy drives, double density for a whopping 1.2 megabytes of storage.
Accessories -Modem: 300 baud Coupler and cassette drive.
First Game: Zork
Frst online connection: CIS Information services.
TV was Black and White, mono, with no hope of cable, and 4 channels. Well three VHF and one crappy UHF channel that was hit or miss.
Music: Vinyl 33-1/3 rpm
Had a toaster oven until 1983, when microwaves started popping up.
:)
OMG, yes, all the text adventures. We had all those Zork things for our C64. I didn't know how to act years later when I got Zork Zero which was an actual game with 3d scenery and music. I actually loved the simplicity of problem solving in the text adventures. Fun time.
Ya, when my husband and I dated we went to the bowling alley or the pool hall to play pac man....
Remember when arcades were actually fun?
Yes! lol