Hehe, I remember my first PC was just MS-DOS only and my interest in text based Roleplay games came from... Zork. Windows 3.1 was nice back when I first got it. At least it didn't Blue Screen constantly.

*sniffle* One of my teachers said there was a way to make windows go to the bsod but he didn't tell us how to...

it's cause he knew we'd make it auto run on someones pc every time it booted

My first was a Macintosh 512k. No hard drive. No dot-matrix printer (although it offered support for one, and that was a big deal). It had a 3.5" floppy drive, which was darn near state of the art for personal computing. My 3.11 was an awesome upgrade when I got it. Especially QBASIC. I had a lot of fun learning to program from help files. Made me feel smart and special.

My first computer was an 8086 with a 10 pound full height 5.25" 40mb hard drive. Windows? What was windows?

Second was a 286 with 2 half height 5.25" 40 mb harddrives. 8mb of ram on an IDE expansion card, and windows for 286 on it.

Well, my first computer was a 110 baud golfball-style teletype terminal on a PDP-11/8e. There was a faster DECsystem dot matrix printer terminal that ran at 300 baud, but no one liked it because it printed faster than you could read. Plus it worked on an analog modem so if someone knocked the headset off it you lost your connection; which was odd since the computer itself was just in the next room.

Anyone able to place a bid involving punched cards? I just missed that era.

*cough* This is quotes, not "I had the oldest computer".

My first computer (that my folks bought) was something called the Radioshack Tandy Color Computer--I think that was somewhere between 1982-1984. The PC had yet to become a standard, and I remember playing Zork in spare time on the High School's DEC Rainbows.

My first college had a lot of computers with Hercules Graphics cards--good Monochrome graphics. We had a PS/2 with Windows 1.0 on it.

In 1991, I remember having a laptop with 2 720K 3.5 Floppys, and a 300 Baud Modem. It was considered unusual that we were made to buy laptops back then.

It's okay, I already "won". Yay me.

After I no longer had access to the PDP, we couldn't afford a Tandy (or even a TRS-80) so I would write programs out longhand on legal pads and then go to the local Radio Shack and try to enter them before the salesmen kicked me out, just to see if they worked.

In other words; shopkeeper, influencer, hunter, Celest griefer and Mag griefer.

Funny how things sound so different when you're already experienced.

(Magnagora): Vashner says, "Whomever's writing the illusory script, please cease
it."
Shaddus leaves to the south.
A plague lord says, "I am here to serve, citizen."
(Magnagora): Ardrak, Keeper of the Megalith says, "'Whoever', surely."
(Magnagora): Vashner says, "Oops. Sorry about that. I've been enchanting for
quite a while and my brain's a bit on the edge."

LATER...

Incabulos arrives from the east.

Eschatologist Incabulos Oubliette, Crescendo of Transformation screams,
"PEDANT!"

Incabulos points accusingly at Ardrak, Keeper of the Megalith.

Incabulos gibbers insanely.
Incabulos leaves to the north.

Ardrak, Keeper of the Megalith bows to Kahjin - the lesson in Combat is over.
Ardrak, Keeper of the Megalith says, "It is my duty to educate Magnagora."

You say, "Hah! Indeed... intolerance of poor grammar should only be second to
our intolerance of Merians."
Ardrak, Keeper of the Megalith runs an outstretched finger along the outer edge
of the Megalith.
Ardrak, Keeper of the Megalith nods his head.
Ardrak, Keeper of the Megalith says, "Indeed, indeed."

Ah, if only I could hand out little armbands... but it's the wrong time period to establish grammar fascism. Pity.

My first computer was a pair of rocks.

Whenever we wanted to roleplay being in a fantasy land, we'd have to slam them full force into the sides of our head.

Good times.

So establish the commitee of proscriptivism?

That's the most awesome description I've ever read!

Tully, Janitor of the Basin shouts, "Wha'd I do?"

Tully has been crushed to death by Lisaera, the Silver Goddess.

Heh, and I forgot I was walking with Grace when I walked into 2 Isunes, an Eventru, and a Lyreth.

Then how did Lisaera get you?

Yoshimi is totally a skank.

OMG. I KNEW THAT NAME WAS FAMILIAR.

*See Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots by the Flaming Lips.

Nerf me .