sonicbuffalo_RIP
Senior Member
For me, it was a Packard Bell 386 running Windows 3.0. We had 2400 baud for the modem. I remember I spent my tax return on it, and it cost over $2000. I think it had 2 or 4 mgb of Ram.
My very first was a Radio Shack TRS-80 Color Computer, affectionately knows as "the CoCo". I remember learning to program that thing in Extended Color BASIC, a version of BASIC Tandy leased from Microsoft. My CoCo came came with 16KB (yes, that's a "K") of memory (expandable to 64KB if you were willing to drop if off for a few days), and used a cassette tape for offline storage. I remember being VERY excited when the first floppy drive for it came out. Modems back then were 300 baud or, if you had money to burn, you had a Hayes "Smart Modem" 1200 baud.
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Ditto! I coded all sorts of "zork" style adventures on cassette tapes back in the days! Never imagined that I would even own a cell phone back then, nor would I ever have imagined that my current phone would have like "a billion" (tic) times more processing and display power...