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  • alan bard newcomeralan bard newcomer Posts: 2,334

    my first computers were pdps and 370/138? argh... 
    missed the early gaming because I could never handle the waiting... 
    (and yes, in 1980 or so we logged on to this thing called genie with a 150 baud acoustic coupler) and two minutes later it said "hello, world"... I didn't see the future in that. 
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    Fallout 3 .. in the basement of the comic book company has the beta version of the "gronack the barbarian" text adventure on about a Trash 80 ... has about 7 or 8 screens of the game...  
    In fact the newest one Fallout 4 has game cartridges you can load and play on your wrist computing unit. 
     

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  • AnotherUserNameAnotherUserName Posts: 2,727
    alan bard newcomer said:

    In fact the newest one Fallout 4 has game cartridges you can load and play on your wrist computing unit. 
     

    They took that idea from System Shock 2. It was a great feature because often times your data unit (whatever it was called) took awhile to do research. I used to load up the golf cartridge and play that while I waited.

  • fastbike1fastbike1 Posts: 4,078

    Not to forget: "You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike." 

    mjc1016 said:
    nelsonsmith said:

    You guys are youngsters.  One of my first computer games was Ultima III on a Commodore 64.

    'You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door.  There is a small mailbox here.'

    Morrowind is not my first...just my favorite.

     

  • Ken OBanionKen OBanion Posts: 1,455
    LeatherGryphon said:

    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. cheeky

    The good old IBM 4300-series.  My cousin had one in his garage (a 4361, with a disk pack and tape drive).  He re-strapped the power supply to accept 110 volts, and fired it up.  It booted, ran for about 15 minutes, then browned-out the whole neighborhood!

  • ScavengerScavenger Posts: 2,674
    nelsonsmith said:

    You guys are youngsters.  One of my first computer games was Ultima III on a Commodore 64.

    Knittingmommy said:
    nelsonsmith said:

    You guys are youngsters.  One of my first computer games was Ultima III on a Commodore 64.

    Ah, I've got you beat!  My first game was Zork quickly followed by the original Load Runner game.  Both games played on someone else's computer, though, as my first computer was an Apple IIc which made me wish I had gotten a Commodore!

    BAH!. Ultima (No 1, no 2, no blasted 3) on an Apple II+ AND Adventure AND Birth of the Phoenix! So get off my lawn!

  • 3delinquent3delinquent Posts: 355

    I loved Load Runner on the C64. I never had another computer until two years ago. Turns out they can do some pretty awesome stuff now!

    They got a bit complicated though. I used to just put a cassette in a drive like putting one in the stereo and press play. Those newfangled floppy disks scared me. I was always afraid I would damage them or somehow accidentally wipe them. My introduction to those was when I pulled one out of a drive for the first time and it had a big hole in the middle of it - 'Oh crap! What have I done?' I nonchalantly put it in its paper sleeve and stashed it in the box and was quite relieved when the one I pulled out to use had the same hole in it. Duhhh! Ignorance may be bliss but it doesn't stop you from feeling stupid. :) Now I tend to ignore most of it and just click merrily away until my screen whites out and I'm told such and such is not responding and what do I want to do about it? An old dog CAN learn new tricks. I learned how to save, save, save and backup...twice even.

    If I stopped purchasing for studio and there were no more upgrades and I still had current iterations of blender and gimp, I could be happy with no further input for as long as I am capable of actually using a computer. Thankfully that's not the case. And thankfully ageing is no barrier to finding things to enjoy in life.

    I'm wondering how we'll be looking back at the current tech and applications like Studio twenty or thirty years from now.

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