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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 22 points 3 months ago (3 children)

No, 47. Believe it or not, the first PCs came out when I was a young whippersnapper.

[–] WindyRebel@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

IBM 486 was my first PC as a kid. Throw in those floppys and game on DOS!

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Mine was an Apple ][+.

(And yes, that's how you write it properly. I'm a pedant.)

[–] WindyRebel@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

I would have it no other way. I am the same. 😂

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

When I was a kid my folks bought the TI 99/4A for some ridiculous reason. It's interesting to look back at the weird hardware that never made it, like the cartridges that thing used instead of 5¼" floppies that were also out at the time. Maybe it reminded them of inserting 8 tracks.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The TI99 had an (optional) external expansion box that allowed it to use floppy disks.

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 months ago

Never saw the floppy external, but at some point we ended up with a peripheral that read data off cassettes.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

I think the 99/4A also had a cassette tape drive you could buy. I don't think they ever made a floppy drive for it though.

[–] Dultas@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

I have 6.22 and Win3.11 running in a VM for fun.

[–] Shadywack@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Fuck yea man, Dr Sbaitso was the one for me. I loved that shit. It still fucks with people when I bust that out on Dosbox.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Doggdorzbaydzoh.

[–] MataVatnik@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Oh OK cause the article you sent mentioned ELIZA being developed between 1964-67 so I had to ask.