I'm guessing a 386 processor... not even close to 386 MHz

Back in the late 90's (before anyone we knew had computers)my daughter was in college and bought a word processor to do projects on. She paid close to $2,000 for it. Just a couple years later she literally gave it away to a library. Nobody was in the market for it anymore.



TIS

This is a long shot, but here goes anyway:

Do you, by any chance, remember an old Commodore 64 game where you're playing some treasure hunter...I think you're in some caves collecting diamonds. What I do remeber for sure is the fact that you can disappear and then reappear in a different place. It was a very fun game, which I used to play a lot with my kid brother. It's kind of nostalgic to me, and I just wish I knew the name.

Oh and I also remember the music, I can recognize the game just based on that:

"tu du du du du, tu dududu dududu"
(well that line means absolutely nothing unless you hear it, but if you already think you know which game, then that line might help)

...that is, if you even played games back then, and if you even remember anything. Like I said, very long shot, but I had to try.

I first went online in the late 80's with some kind of computer that required me to load it up everytime with floppy discs....I think the system was called DOS..... I definitely remember a game such as the one described, bit at te time it did not have sounds. It had something to do with wizards, and your character would go all over the place finding things that would give you powers. The object of the game was to fed a lump of coal to a dragon and then stay in the game for an hour without being killed, at which time you would get a message the dragon had exploded.

I think the only game I played while on the Commodore was "Mario Brothers". I had a flight simulator also, but it was soooo slow.... you'd hear the big floppy disk turning and groaning and then the screen would change for a few seconds.

Wikipedia has a page with a lot of games for Commodore 64.

You all beat me by many miles. I had used some computer's on jobs . But said I would never own one. Made a deal on one in 2001. I love them, I get to see things, learn things, talk to others around the world. Keeping in touch with out do mail item's I would never do.

They are super items, if used and handled properly. I am like some youngens , have made mistakes with talkin to much.

Games I like Solitary .

The first official website i went on, excluding search engines was Man Utd.com

I bought something called Webtv I used to go on the coaches mail list.

Just bought something else. It's supposed to be very good for you

Check out this video on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApG8Hjs-wr8&feature=youtube_gdata_player

I was late to the party, to say the least. I logged-on to my first website in 2004. I was almost 45 at the time .

Remember the old BBS ? Connecting with a 1200baud modem lol. It was so slow the characters came over one at a time took like 2 minutes to load a full page of just text..but it was cool as hell. Then AOL, then Internet Explorer.

Oh yeah, I am familiar! I loved that thing. That disk drive making that awful knocking noise lol

It is way fun, though.and I get tremendous satisfaction out if building and maintaining my own rigs. I got water cooling on my gaming rig that's pretty cool,I'm always so paranoid it's gonna leak,

First time online for me was doing legal research a long time ago.

What'd you find?

Your making me feel old ponyboy making me feel old

I found that I could shepardize a case in a matter of seconds, and my jaw hit the floor.

It was some time in the late 1980's when you still had to load the computer with DOS floppy disks. When WIndows came along, I thought I had died and gone to heaven, and thought AOL was cutting edge!


I did learn how to do legal research online, thanks God, and even then I never foresaw the day when I could carry my law library in my pocket (i phone)!

BTW law books are increasingly a thing of the past.

For me, it was the late 90s when we all got computers at work. What a whole new world. It eventually cut down on paperwork, especially filing (which also will be a thing of the past); and being able to have access to forms on-line was great.

My first home computer was in 2001, an old used one with dial up modem. Ha ha ha I remember having to disconnect the phone to use the computer. At one point I paid for an "internet phone" which would answer calls if I was on the computer.

Man, so old school isn't it? Seems like yesterday tho.

TIS

To play PONG

I also first went on the internet in the late 80s. I used a 386 MHz computer with what at the time was a fast dial up modem; but it's nothing compared to today's very fast processors, and very high speed internet connections.

I remember the commodore 64 since friends of mine had them and just used them for games.

I go way back:

My first computer experience was at work, ca. 1979. I got a login on a corporate UNIX network. No PC's then: a dumb terminal with a modem linked to a DEC PDP11 "minicomputer" (which was the size of two large refrigerators and was kept in air conditioned space in a corporate computer center). Not long after, we got connected to something called "DECnet," which was a nationwide network of users who were hosted on DEC minicomputers. It was a predecessor of the Internet. No GUI--you just logged into DECnet, selected a usergroup, posted a question or comment, and waited for a reply. It was a great experience in those days. I logged into a usergroup on bicycles and asked about a certain bike frame. Within an hour I got four erudite replies.

DECnet proved so popular that the company disconnected us from it because too many people were spending too much time on it, and not enough on what the company was paying them for.