Well as I’m sitting here a little bit bored today I thought I would write a short history of my computer nerdness. This is a list of the computers I’ve owned throughout the years starting from first to last.

TI-99/4A

Well this was my first computer and it had a smoking 3 MHz processor with a mind blowing 16k or ram. I didn’t even own the tape drive or anything to go with it so I remember spending hours typing out lines of code to play a game or make a little robot go across the screen lol. Then you’d turn it off and have to do it all over again the next time you wanted to play. Either way it was my very first actual computer so I remember it fondly.

 

Here are some stats for those of you that want to see just what a beast it was.

Texas Instruments TI-99/4A

Commodore Vic-20

Well after the TI-99/4A I sort of downgraded hardware wise but at the time the Vic-20 was the place to be It was a lot more affordable and had more games and a fancy cassette disc drive so I could save all those lines of code instead of retyping them every time.

With the Commodores is where I think my love of computers started and I continued to use them until Commodore went belly up because of poor management or at least that’s how I see it because to me anyways they were far superior to PC’s and probably still would of been if they had of been able to continue.

With that said the Vic-20 is also when my countless hours of gamming begun too. Sure I had the Atari 2600 and all but I’ve always preferred computer over consoles when it comes to gaming.

And of course the stats

Commodore VIC-20

Commodore 64

After the good ole Vic-20 was the Commodore 64. Not only did it now come in brown this is where the total nerdism began. With a good ole 300 baud modem I had my own BBS running. Got into the phreaking scene because let’s face it Europe had all the warez J

Thanks to the 5.25 floppy disc drives I gathered a rather large collection of games and apps and can remember countless hours playing M.U.L.E.

In a nostalgic way I have to say the Commodore 64 probably was my favorite system. I had the first model then when they upgraded it to the new sleek version I was right there upgrading too.

Hers the stats

Commodore 64

 

Amiga Series

Now for the Commodore Amiga. This is one computer I really wish had of continued to be made. It’s where I started with graphic design and really in my opinion was one of the coolest computers to date. At the time it had the most advanced operating system and one of the first true multitasking one at that. It was known for its graphics and sound capabilities and again had some pretty sweet games.

My first one was the Amiga 500 then jumped to the 2000, 1200 and ended it off with the 4000. I continued to be a BBS Sysop but with the 1200 was the start of my life on the internet.

The stats…

Commodore Amiga 500

CPU:	Motorola 68000 @ 7.14 MHz
RAM:	512K stock, 8Meg max.
Display:	16 colors at 640 X 400
	4096 colors at 320 X 200.
Ports:	Parallel, serial, floppy
	RGB, RF, composite video
	Stereo audio, joysticks
	System bus
Storage:	Internal 880K 3.5-inch floppy.
OS:	AmigaDOS 1.34
	“Workbench” GUI

 

PC Based Computers

After the Amiga 4000 I started with the PC series computers. Starting with the 486 series I ran alongside my Amiga and sadly when Amiga’s became obsolete I had no choice but to make the crossover complete.

Since the PC crossover I’ve went through all the usual upgrade steps 486, 586, Intel systems, AMD systems I won’t get into the specifics because there are too many to name but at the current time of writing I’m in a 3.2 ghz AMD quad core with 16 gigs of ram and of course an Asus motherboard.

Well that brings me to the end of my short summary of my nerd beginnings and I’m sure in the years to come I could probably expand on this because let’s face it computers aren’t going anywhere soon.