god the memories, I had a vic20 then the commodore64 with the 1541 5 1/2 disk drive, I had this fighting game that you would go from town to town fighting getting experence points and gold to buy and sell in the towns or you could fight the gaurds and steal from the towns leave the go back and sell the stuff you stole it was great fun. I also worked with the trs80 called the trash 80 cause you had to load the basic program to write a program in basic. my mother owned a store in oceanside,ca called calco computers and when toys r us got the commodore64 &128 they could sell them cheaper then my mom could buy them. those were the days.

What a bunch of young punks y'all are...

I built my first "PC's" from scratch.

My first "mass storage device" was a paper tape reader that I built from a kit. I bought a chess program that came on paper tape. To load it into the computer, I had to feed the paper tape into the device at a more-or-less constant speed. This worked well as long as I had room to run in the apartment. Other than a few unfortunate incidents falling off the balcony, I really loved that program...

Hard drive? My first computer was a Commodore 64 with a cassette tape drive, because the 5.25 disk drive cost 2x what the computer cost. Oh yeah, I did have the 300baud modem 🙂

I had the tape drive with my vic-20 boy what fun that was trying to load a program.

You're still all young punks...

Commodore VIC 20's, 64's and Atari 400's were all SERIOUS refined computers after the old days.

Back in the good old days, real computers had 8 or 16 LEDS as their display monitor. "Keyboards" were wither 8 or 16 toggle switches (much like your light switch.)

Aah, the good old days....

.... man they really sucked. I like CBid a LOT better.

red LED hand held sports games....

I remember my PC just having two 5 1/4" floppy drives and 512k RAM.

Those were the days, not!