many moons ago when i was a much younger computer enthusiast.

[AllaN01Bear]

i got a windows 95 machine . there was a disc with all kinds of games including pinball. i would while away the hour on that game . alas the windows 95 machine is no more . been looking for a free download for my mac os x machine and found a nice online version instead.
https://toytheater.com/space-pinball/

[WmChris]

1. Also many moons ago

My kids and I played Zork on a Commodore 8, but I'm like really old. It was dungeons and dragons played in basic, on a green screen with text only. Prehistoric fun with an almost computer.

[2naSalit]

2. Well I...

Played Starlanes on a Tandy monochrome (white) machine back when pong was all the rage and rather boring unless you were seriously drunk or something. It was a group game based on investments over a set number of moves. It was group fun on what, to us, was a computer.

But even years later I had the pinball game too and I really enjoyed it more than any other game.

[willamette]

3. Adventure

I played text based Adventure from home on a 100 baud teletype (display was to paper) with acoustic modem dialed into a ring of five Honeywell 6000's (36 bit giants). They encouraged us to take the TTY's off their hands, and out of the office building.

[2naSalit]

4. You WIN!!

That's some seriously old stuff! I wasn't even interested in that kind of technology then!

[willamette]

5. Even though the TTY was on a concrete slab foundation

in our house, the whole place rocked when it loudly slammed the impact typewriter-like hammer down to print. Possibly that contributed to it's extinction, in that the pleisiosaurs knew just where to find them.

[OldBaldy1701E]

9. That and 'Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy'!

All text, no images. Green all the way!

[WmChris]

13. 🤜

[Polybius]

6. I have 25 computers right now

Vintage computing is my main hobby, along with politics. There is nothing like owning the original hardware.

Funny thing is, I don't have a Windows 95 machine. I have a 386 DX-33 running Windows 3.11. The next model up is a K6-2, running Windows 98. My favorite though is my IBM 5160 XT. It runs Windows 1.01 lol.

[AllaN01Bear]

7. ohm myyy.

[AllaN01Bear]

8. since i live in a small( 620 sqft apartment) i dont have the room but i do lots of emulations of various platforms .

apple 2. classic mac. dos . started on dos. would like to find a emulation of ibm rpg 2 , i started commercialy on that. win 3.1. great solitaire game and calander on that one .

[hunter]

12. I have some rpg stuff stashed away, hand written on those custom forms.

It's boring stuff from a rather painful time in my life.

My OCD and digital hoarding tendencies, so far, are not demanding I resurrect any of it.

[OldBaldy1701E]

10. I still kick myself for letting my mother get rid of my TI 99/4!

I never saw another one, although a few people said they had one back in the day as well. A keyboard and a tape player, hooked to your television. LOL.

[hunter]

11. My old IBMs are generally set up with DRDOS and Geoworks.

I skipped Windows 1 and 2.

My oldest low serial number IBM PC and monitor looks like this, fully loaded with a full height floppy disk, hard drive, and memory:



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Personal_Computer

The machine cost someone a lot of money new. I got it as junk. I've set it up as it would have been in it's prime.

Most of the machines I've used since the 'seventies are fully emulated on my Debian desktop, including the first electronic computer I built. It used an 1802 processor, similar to the Popular Electronics COSMAC Elf.



The last Windows I used on my home machines was 98SE.

My favorite computer ever was the Atari 800 line.

Whenever I build a new desktop machine I transfer all my older files and disk images to it.

Honestly, I'm afraid to turn on some of the old machines these days, fearing the dreadful sound of old capacitors going off like firecrackers.

[Archae]

14. I used to play "Age Of Empires" a lot.

Can't get it to work on any of current computers.