$1K for 56k?

[Climber]

My first computer was a VIC20 with 16kb memory and a tape drive Man, it was a dog but kept me entertained. Never the less, I had plenty of time to read while loading a game...

My first was a commodore 64, I reprogrammed telengard which was written in basic.

I remember when at Sierra Online that we had a game that missed final QA by 8 bytes and shipped 2 weeks late.

Also, while at Sierra Online, to burn a cdrom master (standard cdroms, these days), we had to burn off of a giant tape drive because hard drives weren't that big yet. It took 7 hours and it succeeded 2/3 times.

 

[MysterYvil]

I'm still waiting for my free rustic cabin in exchange for the "year without internet" deal.

Haven't yet gotten it...

 

[Alan_Hepburn]

I remember those days.
Remember that you could buy a computer with 640k of ram, a 20meg hard drive, a 14 inch 16 color monitor that showed at 320x200 with a 300 baud modem, all for $3,200?
People these days have no idea what we had to go through back then!
The only real interactive place that you could go to electronically was the dating tree.

"Social media" was usenet newsgroups and BBS boards...

I think our first "computer" was an Adam - anyone remember THOSE?

I went big-time when I got a TI99 - 16 bit Motorola processor and 16K of memory, using a casette recorder for storage. Good times!

At work we were excited when IBM came out with the PC, loaded up with a huge 10MB hard drive - we wondered how we were EVER going to fill up that drive!