Saurus Posted November 14, 2019 Share Posted November 14, 2019 38 here.... i guess kids dont visit the forum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morloc Posted November 14, 2019 Author Share Posted November 14, 2019 EDIT Oh snap! I just noticed I could've chosen the lower bracket! For the record I want everyone to know that I am DEFINITELY 40-50 years old and not 50-60 years old! Argh...I believe I just failed a math word problem. I'm going to need to wait like at least a year to do the poll again correctly now. Bah! Oh, and 53 here for the record. The first computer game I owned was Rescue at Rigel which needed to be loaded off of audio cassete tape (it came JUST before Morloc's Tower) The first computer game I played was Lunar Lander (from like 1969) on a DEC minicomputer. -Morloc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZombieSurvivor Posted November 14, 2019 Share Posted November 14, 2019 Ahhhhh.... You all make me feel so young lol... thank you all for that . 33 here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shin Posted November 14, 2019 Share Posted November 14, 2019 54 here. Not playing atm cause of game direction not being quite to my liking. 1st PC bought way back in 1983.. Couldnt do anything with it so learnt to program to make it do something. vic 64 before that with games on cassette. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myrkana Posted November 14, 2019 Share Posted November 14, 2019 your poll is weird. you have the 20,30etc.. in two answers so it 30-40 or 20-30? D: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sham_Sandwich Posted November 15, 2019 Share Posted November 15, 2019 your poll is weird. you have the 20,30etc.. in two answers so it 30-40 or 20-30? D: I guess you have to make a judgement call. At 30, do you identify more as someone in their 20s or 30s? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sham_Sandwich Posted November 15, 2019 Share Posted November 15, 2019 I'm 39 in 16 days so interesting poll. Maybe it's a sign that regular internet bulletin boards are only for us old folks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtomicUs5000 Posted November 15, 2019 Share Posted November 15, 2019 This was my first computer: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Nice Cup of Tea Posted November 15, 2019 Share Posted November 15, 2019 My first computer was an absolute classic: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostlight Posted November 15, 2019 Share Posted November 15, 2019 Mine was a ZX80, then a ZX81 and only then a Spectrum. I am 52 btw Still trying to convince my son (14) to play this with me. But, sorry TFP, if it isn't Fortnight, he's not interested. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ornias Posted November 15, 2019 Share Posted November 15, 2019 I had a TRS-80. The day I upgraded to a cassette drive so I didn't have to type in the programs every time was sweet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalarro Posted November 15, 2019 Share Posted November 15, 2019 38 I wrote 37 and had to count years to correct myself... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr.natural Posted November 15, 2019 Share Posted November 15, 2019 56 next month My first home computer with MSX: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/edhK2LhxJKw/maxresdefault.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sydious Posted November 15, 2019 Share Posted November 15, 2019 45 next month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hek Harris Posted November 15, 2019 Share Posted November 15, 2019 It's less a forum than a retirement home Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sydious Posted November 15, 2019 Share Posted November 15, 2019 It's less a forum than a retirement home I wish... then I wouldn't have to wipe my own... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kattla Posted November 15, 2019 Share Posted November 15, 2019 I think web based vs Steam based forums automatically grab a higher percentage of user that have experienced the BBS of old. Who else remember dialing up your modem to play "Trade Wars, The Pit, or Usurper" only to curse your family members for picking up the phone while playing!? TXT based MUDs... Those were the good old days. Ahh a time before ads... Oooo, text based muds. They had the best graphic one could imagine, since we had to imagine it. Think my last login on DSL (dark and shattered lands) was in 2011 but i am not entirely sure. Liked their sailing "mechanics" a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zicky Posted November 15, 2019 Share Posted November 15, 2019 Fifty-nine here. My first computer was a 4k Radio Shack Color Computer which I used to program using binary. Set me back $649.00. Wrote several games on it. Thought I was really doing something when I could upgrade to 16K. LOL! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morloc Posted November 15, 2019 Author Share Posted November 15, 2019 I used to program using binary. Like...machine code? Yikes...yer a glutton for punishment. I'm pretty sure all CoCos shipped with Basic? -Morloc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jysen Posted November 15, 2019 Share Posted November 15, 2019 40. But I identify as my 16 year old self. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramethzer0 Posted November 16, 2019 Share Posted November 16, 2019 I had Commodore PET's and early Apple Mac's (they were called MacIntosh's back then) in school. When I grew up my first computer I ever owned and bought with my own money was a Tandy 1000. I remember a rich friend of mine got a Baxter, and my Uncle had a Commodore 64 and I was super jealous of both of them growing up. I furiously devoured books about BASIC programming and I would do it in big department stores that had computer models available to the public for practice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morloc Posted November 16, 2019 Author Share Posted November 16, 2019 I would do it in big department stores that had computer models available to the public for practice. PCs displaying inappropriate text scrolling on the screen which the salesmen had no clue how to stop....ahhhh...the good old days! -Morloc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warmer Posted November 16, 2019 Share Posted November 16, 2019 your poll is weird. you have the 20,30etc.. in two answers so it 30-40 or 20-30? D: Think of 30 like midnight. It is neither tonight or this morning. It is 30 something... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zicky Posted November 17, 2019 Share Posted November 17, 2019 Like...machine code? Yikes...yer a glutton for punishment. I'm pretty sure all CoCos shipped with Basic? -Morloc It had BASIC but only 4k of memory. You had to optimize the code quite a bit so that it would fit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gamida Posted November 17, 2019 Share Posted November 17, 2019 I had a TRS-80. The day I upgraded to a cassette drive so I didn't have to type in the programs every time was sweet. Fifty-nine here. My first computer was a 4k Radio Shack Color Computer which I used to program using binary. Set me back $649.00. Wrote several games on it. Thought I was really doing something when I could upgrade to 16K. LOL! My first computers were also various models of the CoCo. I remember having to type in the program from magazines and then losing them when I shut off the machine. Upgraded to the cassette. Seemed like I always had to use a teeny screwdriver to adjust the head on it to get the program to load. Then Finally I upgraded to the 5 1/4 floppy. I later found out I could punch a hole in the disk to make the other sided writable. After that I started on the Tandy 1000...not sure which one. After that was on to IBM compatibles. I still have a CoCo around the house somewhere. I have a few years of "Rainbow Magazine" up in the attic. I have games on cassettes. Boxes of games in original packages stored away. I have bits and pieces of computer parts and peripherals hidden around the house. I am such a pack rat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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