At least you pussy millennials didn't have to grow up WITH SLOW COMPUTERS A 386 PC WITH DIAL UP!! we gen xers had to.

oooh thanks for the reminder

Mine was a TRS-80 Color Computer 2. Dad bought it for the family one Christmas with a bundle that included a Modem I and Videotex cartridge. Needless to say my brother and I quickly became addicted to CompuServe and at $6 an hour a Crack addiction would have been cheaper!

Eventually we found BBSes but that brought a whole new set of problems. Later in life Dad actually told me he regretted buying the modem for a long time because of all the grief we caused him with it.

That split second decision to blow a Christmas bonus on a home computer and drop it in the laps of two pre-teen 80's kids had consequences Dad could never had fathomed.

I pretty much owe everything I have today to that little 64k computer from 1986 with a Motorola 6809 @ 1mhz hooked to a tv...

Anyone here have a Tandy Coco from Radio Shack? They were the poor man's version of the Vic20.

Micro bee running at 2 MHZ FTW! I remember writing a BASIC program that displayed Snoopy!

Commodore 64 was awesome!

I could spend all evening and part of the night typing in code to animate a 'bird' that looked like this ~o~ to fly randomly across the screen at an incredibly slow pace!

It was SOOOOO worth it.

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You know people still use C64s; they're addicted to the electronica of the sound chip! A buddy of mine had one but he used it solely to play cassette games!

I still have my old VIC 20 with the cool cassette tape drive in the basement....I pull it out to amuse the grand kids about the "olden days".....

Computers? That is what BIG companies had in special rooms with lots of air conditioning. There was no such thing as personal computers ... shoot there was no such thing as electronic calculators, they were all mechanical machines - either electric or with a pull lever.

At home the highest tech we could reach in my town was a ROTARY dial phone, which if you needed to make a long distance call you could only make it by calling an "Operator" and having "her" (they were always female) place the call, AND a black and white television with 3 channels (ABC, NBC, CBS). Of course we also had TUBE radios to listen to music on the AM dial (transistor radios with crappy speakers if you wanted to listen while away from home ... even car radios used tubes) ... and nobody had ever heard of FM radio.

In reality life was still great, maybe even better than today, though nobody had whole house air conditioning, maybe if you were lucky a room or two.

Passenger trains still stopped in my small town, still steam powered with a coal boiler and a "fireman" who had to shovel coal in virtually nonstop as the train traveled.

The interstate highway system was still being built ... so to go to the city one needed to get on the two lane roads and go through every little crossroads town and stop at every stoplight and stop sign ... which took forever, or so it seemed to me as a kid, though for my parents it was FAST compared to when they grew up. (quicker to go by train).

The day "Pong" came along in a table top coffee table size machine ... wow we thought nirvana had arrived!! What high tech that was!!

I'm 21 and my first computer made the commodore 64 look like space age technology.

What's the one thing both millennial's and generation x'ers have in common?

They both live with their parents......

At least we aren't to blame for the sorry fucking state the world is in. Boom!

When I see almost toddlers in high chairs playing games on an iPhone, I pray to God.

I still use my Pentium 1 12inch Toshiba Tecra that I bought in 1997. Its last venture online was in 2003 hooked up to RIT's dialup. I must admit I'm still addicted to the sound and feel of those old keyboards.

I started with a vic 20. hooked up to the tv to boot.

But god the good old DOS games were the best, gamestores had walls of boxed games, not faggy Gamestops. Comic stores were still very present, arcades.

I could live in permemant 1985-1999

i did the same thing. LOL..

i was in junior high when i had mine,

and i bought this attachment through a magazine, that i got MTV and other cable channels through my C-64.

my parents had no idea i had MTV and other stuff in my bedroom (they were very restrictive).

this was mid 80's!



i liked the video games at the time.

ultima series and others i dont' even remember.

haven't played video games really since that age.

forgot to log in!

if you keep ripping on the millenials, they won't save your ass when the banks clean your clock.
Nor will they go on your crusades. Just sayin

can't believe the commodore still works. just had it hooked up a yr ago.
high tech baby!

Vic20 LOL

LOL

That's where I started

this was the closets thing to porn on a 286
Leisure Suit Larry

Fuck you, old computers rocked and were actually cool. Plus they were 100% NSA free!

My Apple IIGS is on the Internet. Apple II forever bitches.

Back in those days the image viewers decoded a line at a time. When the line that showed the areolae decoded......

I came.

OP must have had a 386 SX (and probably a Packard Bell). Everyone in the know knew SX meant sucks.