Tandy TRS-80 here. My friend had a Apple IIc (later on I had one too, buy strangely more towards the 90s just to play old games that I loved on the Apple like Legacy of the Ancients.)
My 80s went something like this...
Tandy TRS-80
Commodore 64
Commodore 128
Amiga 500
And believe it or not, I think that I got a Apple IIc after the Amiga just to play some old Apple games. The Amiga was the bomb though...the sound quality was so good for its time.
The Tandy TRS-80 I used to code games by hand from books and magazines believe it or not. And not only did it take forever but, for a long time I didn't have anything to backup to so when I powered it off, I lost my game and all of my work lol.
Compaq Presario with a Cyrix chip. AOL pre-installed and that was my internet until I saw I could just use a regular browser, then later install EarthLink and ditch AOL. It was also my first experience using a PC.
It was an Acer Aspire something, had a 100mhz Pentium in it and 8 gigs of some kind of RAM. Wish I'd kept it.
Damn mine was also a Pentium 100 16 mega of RAM, and an 800 meg HD.
If I wanted the full 450 meg install of Daggerfall took over half the drive lol
I upgraded the RAM from 16 to 32 megs at a local shop. Came with free installation. I watched the guy install it and it was so easy to do I felt like a scrub letting him do it. Never let someone else install a computer part for me again.
I was born in 1982, didn't start getting into computers until 1992 or 1993.
81. I watched my friends older brother play games like Spellcasting 101 - Sorcerers get all the Girls in like 1991, and a few other weird old games that literally took like 15 minutes to load off of TAPE before that and the names I have no idea in the late 80s/early 1990s.
Fun fact, there is a point in that game where you can make girls boobs bigger with spells lol.
Anyway I didn't get a computer of my own till 1996. Even had my own phone line.
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A 286 with MS-DOS. Can't remember any other specs. Was probably somewhere in the early '90s. Games on 3.5' floppy discs. Wolfenstein 3D with the bleeps from the PC speaker.
Have more memories of my next one, which was a 486AT33 with 4MB RAM, which I eventually had to double to be able to play Star Wars Dark Forces (it was worth it). Originally got it with a Gravis Ultrasound but swapped it for a Soundblaster with someone I knew because the Ultrasound wasn't supported well enough at the time. Another change that was worth it: He got a more expensive sound card, I got one that worked hassle-free so we both were satisfied...
Then a slew of Pentiums although I can't remember ever getting a 1. I believe I went straight to 2.
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