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<blockquote data-quote="Eye-level" data-source="post: 27938" data-attributes="member: 6548"><p>I started on an Atari 400 "chiclet" key rig with base 2K or 4K I had it upgraded to 16K by 1982 I think with a cassette storage system using a TV for the monitor with a subscription to Family Computing which always had these cool programs for the PC (IBM) Apple, Commodore 64, who can forget the Commodore 128 that looked like it was trying to rip off IBM? I never made it too Compuserve which was like 3 bucks a minute and you really needed an Apple or PC...in Jr High School 8th grade like 1984 I participated in a city wide "Computer Olympics" where teams submitted simple BASIC type programs in like 5 categories...I was the only person in my school of about 750 who got to use the single Apple 2e they provided for this contest and subsequently at the contest I teamed with two other young dudes like myself but from other districts...we were blown up but had a great frigging time! I won a certificate in front of the whole school...no one knew crap about computers other than Defender and Asteroids Deluxe and Colecovision was cool!!!</p><p> </p><p>I once had my high score on the "revolutionary" arcade game called Dragon's Lair in a computer mag back in those days...I had traded the Atari 400 system for a Redline and started skipping school and chasing girls!!! LOL</p><p> </p><p>First time I was online was through AOL in 98...I know a little about some of those old lanes... <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Eye-level, post: 27938, member: 6548"] I started on an Atari 400 "chiclet" key rig with base 2K or 4K I had it upgraded to 16K by 1982 I think with a cassette storage system using a TV for the monitor with a subscription to Family Computing which always had these cool programs for the PC (IBM) Apple, Commodore 64, who can forget the Commodore 128 that looked like it was trying to rip off IBM? I never made it too Compuserve which was like 3 bucks a minute and you really needed an Apple or PC...in Jr High School 8th grade like 1984 I participated in a city wide "Computer Olympics" where teams submitted simple BASIC type programs in like 5 categories...I was the only person in my school of about 750 who got to use the single Apple 2e they provided for this contest and subsequently at the contest I teamed with two other young dudes like myself but from other districts...we were blown up but had a great frigging time! I won a certificate in front of the whole school...no one knew crap about computers other than Defender and Asteroids Deluxe and Colecovision was cool!!! I once had my high score on the "revolutionary" arcade game called Dragon's Lair in a computer mag back in those days...I had traded the Atari 400 system for a Redline and started skipping school and chasing girls!!! LOL First time I was online was through AOL in 98...I know a little about some of those old lanes... :) [/QUOTE]
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