I remember my first PC....a 386 with a 5.25 drive, that could _just_ play Wolfenstein with the game shrunk down massively...
Submitted by babychaos on Wed, 2012-05-02 07:21
My first pc was a 8086 clone with monochrome green Hercules graphics 640k of memory 5.25 floppy and a massive 10meg hard drive
Ah those were the days emulating CGA or EGA colour through dithering
running the gem gui so I could use paint and the genius mouse or the wonderful scanner that was hand driven and also black and white.
Submitted by Evilmatt on Wed, 2012-05-02 19:02
EMW - my Dad brought an 8080 with Hercules graphics (orange screen), 5.25 floppy. I have no idea how big the HDD was. I think I used it more than Dad.
I remember hand scanners. There were awesome.
My own first PC took my entire student loan: Dell Dimension P200 in 1996.
My own computer was a Spectrum 128K +2, which I shared with my sister. I played it most of the time, tho.
Submitted by brainwipe on Thu, 2012-05-03 11:13
Hand scanners for me were utter hell. The drag speed was never right!
I was a commadore fanboy from C64 to Amiga 1200+. My family had an Olivetti 286, then a 486 but I didn't want to use a PC. What a frickin hipster.
Submitted by Misterecho on Thu, 2012-05-03 22:00
I had a Amstrad CPC 464 before the pc a powerhouse of a machine
At one point my school had one of those hand scanners with an addon electric motor bolted to the side to solve the hand speed issue that resulted in smeared images
Submitted by Evilmatt on Fri, 2012-05-04 20:54
Our school had a single BBC, then decided a dedicated computer lab was required. They then went out and bought a room full of Acorn PC type machines. They had their own proprietary OS, and our IT teacher had no qualifications, skills or training in computer science!
Things got better at my next school!
Submitted by Misterecho on Sat, 2012-05-05 09:10
Ah yes the Acorn Archimedes we had a load of A3000 a couple of risc pc's in our computer room the library had a single PC that had a cd drive one of the cartridge based ones.
The Archimedes were pretty advanced for their time full wisiwig editors a graphical operating system built in and this was back before windows really took off. Not to mention they are the first incarnation of the ARM processor that now runs the world.
The head of IT at our school was just one of the science facility who had some spare time he really knew nothing about the machines in his care but then all the really did was wash the keyboards down with ethanol every now and then and keep a stack of ready to use floppy disks to sell to kids.
Submitted by Evilmatt on Tue, 2012-05-08 01:05
We (Fish and I) used Acorn Archimedes at school. It had a really nice GUI (better than windows 3.1) and we used it to code games in Basic. There was a chap called Spastic Placks, who taught himself C and we thought he was mental.
I've just sent that reminiscence to who might be Spastic on LinkedIn, let's see if it's the right one.
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I remember my first PC....a 386 with a 5.25 drive, that could _just_ play Wolfenstein with the game shrunk down massively...
My first pc was a 8086 clone with monochrome green Hercules graphics 640k of memory 5.25 floppy and a massive 10meg hard drive
Ah those were the days emulating CGA or EGA colour through dithering
running the gem gui so I could use paint and the genius mouse or the wonderful scanner that was hand driven and also black and white.
EMW - my Dad brought an 8080 with Hercules graphics (orange screen), 5.25 floppy. I have no idea how big the HDD was. I think I used it more than Dad.
I remember hand scanners. There were awesome.
My own first PC took my entire student loan: Dell Dimension P200 in 1996.
My own computer was a Spectrum 128K +2, which I shared with my sister. I played it most of the time, tho.
Hand scanners for me were utter hell. The drag speed was never right!
I was a commadore fanboy from C64 to Amiga 1200+. My family had an Olivetti 286, then a 486 but I didn't want to use a PC. What a frickin hipster.
I had a Amstrad CPC 464 before the pc a powerhouse of a machine
At one point my school had one of those hand scanners with an addon electric motor bolted to the side to solve the hand speed issue that resulted in smeared images
Our school had a single BBC, then decided a dedicated computer lab was required. They then went out and bought a room full of Acorn PC type machines. They had their own proprietary OS, and our IT teacher had no qualifications, skills or training in computer science!
Things got better at my next school!
Ah yes the Acorn Archimedes we had a load of A3000 a couple of risc pc's in our computer room the library had a single PC that had a cd drive one of the cartridge based ones.
The Archimedes were pretty advanced for their time full wisiwig editors a graphical operating system built in and this was back before windows really took off. Not to mention they are the first incarnation of the ARM processor that now runs the world.
The head of IT at our school was just one of the science facility who had some spare time he really knew nothing about the machines in his care but then all the really did was wash the keyboards down with ethanol every now and then and keep a stack of ready to use floppy disks to sell to kids.
We (Fish and I) used Acorn Archimedes at school. It had a really nice GUI (better than windows 3.1) and we used it to code games in Basic. There was a chap called Spastic Placks, who taught himself C and we thought he was mental.
I've just sent that reminiscence to who might be Spastic on LinkedIn, let's see if it's the right one.
I hope you addressed it as "Dear Spastic Placks,"