first computer you had?

[7upMan]

As promised, here's to show that mine is bigger: I actually had Informatics classes on these things. They were horrible. They had tape drives (audio cassettes), and if you lok closely you'll notice that the key buttons were made of hard plastic that didn't really give in when pressed. So to type, you had to press these keys with all force you could muster. Needless to say that they weren't very popular. So yes, from that point on it went uphill very very fast. 

[rebb]

KC85, i remember that vaguely. I used a 1715 from time to time ( didn't own it ), with that horrible game where you have to pee out of a helicopter - or maybe it was a rope

[LEGION]

Haha, but well, it was made in eastern Germany and was called ROBOTRON!

[7upMan]

The computer, that is, not the game. By the way, Robotron was one of the reasons why AMD chose to establish its chip factory in Dresden. Hooray for Robotron! 

[LEGION]

Erm, is this a 'only one game'-computer? Why is 'ROBOTRON' on that sticker then?

[stumpy]

atari 400

[Mortem Desino]

I was talking to one of my university's networking geeks 'bout retro computers. He actually had his Atari 800 stuffed away in one of our server closets. Complete with "Frogger" on cassette tape!

[LEGION]

Oh, I remember Frogger, I had it on my C64, even Frogger2 IIRC. That was one of those major game, wasn´t it? I had a friend with an Atari, don´t know what type. But besides Pacman he had too a RoboCop-game IIRC, though it never worked. You see, I talk more about the games because I ain´t knowing anything about the systems*, so I disqualified myself from this thread...

 

*I always wanted to write a sentence with "ain´t", but I can´t get the grammar right, at least my translator can´t translate it the way I want.

[Fidcal]

[it ain't possible if you ain't English - at least they say it ain't and they ain't been wrong yet or maybe you ain't trying hard enough.

 

There was a young man in a faint,

Who found he couldn't use "ain't".

Though he tried every day

He ain't tried every way,

So they ain't yet made him a saint.

[LEGION]

He, nice Fidcal. Although it gave me a better understanding it ain´t sound right to my ears. (first I wanted to write well-educated ears, but that would´ve been a lie, and I ain´t a liar ) I looked it up in dictionary.com, wouldn´t have thought to find common words like these in there...

[Fidcal]

"it ain't sound right" don't sound right to me.

 

It's funny you trying to actually use slang abbreviations.

 

A professor of English quite quaint

Oft told all his pupils they mayn't

Infinitives split,

Or else he would quit

And never, don't never, use "ain't!"

[LEGION]

"It ain´t sounding right"? I thought one could substitute 'doesn´t' with 'ain´t'.

 

Well, I heard that 'ain´t' so often in the english TV-shows I watch that I wanted at least to try to adopt it, though, I better stick to formal British English, at least most of the time...

[Tels]

"It ain´t sounding right"? I thought one could substitute 'doesn´t' with 'ain´t'.

 

Well, I heard that 'ain´t' so often in the english TV-shows I watch that I wanted at least to try to adopt it, though, I better stick to formal British English, at least most of the time...

 

I thought "aint" is a substitute for "isnt" ?

[Fidcal]

ain't = isn't = is not

don't = doesn't = does not

 

Your "it ain´t sound right to my ears." should be "it don't sound right...."

 

"it ain't sounding right" might be used especially when referring to say, an engine.

[LEGION]

I referred to dictionary.com, but well, the nonstandard I should have given more attention:

 

Nonstandard . have not; has not; do not; does not; did not.

Ok, I´ll stick to this, so you´re (of course) right:

 

— contraction of am not, is not, are not, have not, or has not: I ain't seen it

[Baddcog]

LEGION=king of topic derail

 

lol

 

 

[sparhawk]

I love limericks!