Quote Originally Posted by redhardsupra View Post
hey, no making fun of Amstrad and its 3 inch floppy...

I started on a Timex 2048, a clone of ZX Spectrum 48. I was like 7 or 8 and I loved it to pieces. Then I got to touch the aforementioned Amstrad 6128 with the built in floppy and a ginormous 128k memory and a green 'hires' monitor. Then Atari 65XE, which I swapped with a neighbour for a Commodore 64 II, while envying another friend's Commodore 128D, as it could boot as C64, C128, or CP/M. Then I saw an Amiga 500 and the graphics blew me away. Then I saw a 286 playing 'test drive' and I wanted a PC which I didnt get until years later in a form of a 486. By '98 I worked for a dotcom doing NT sysadmining, and started to hate windows dearly. So with the first paycheck I bought myself a 64bit Alpha 533MHz, which forced me to run Linux. Then I haven't touched Windows for half a decade, until I got into tuning, and had to get a windows and a laptop. These days I have flavors of Linux or BSD running on every piece of hardware I own, including the PS3, and a tiny ARM box that runs a webcam snapshotting a bird in a nest right outside my window

wow, I've been a geek for a long time... I hope that estabilishes my geek cred without using words like 'DnD' or 'Rush'
Warhammer 40k. Magic: The Gathering.

Let the geekiness protrude. I admit in front of gatherings of my friends that I used to play and sell Magic cards and that I made a lot of money trading and selling pieces of cardboard before I ever had my first job.

I remember my old Atari gaming machine. It was my fathers. He had a game with some chick and a sword that my mom wouldn't let me play because it was possibly sexual in nature? Or the chick was scantily clad? I dunno, but I remember not playing that game.

My first PC was a 133mhz Pentium. Old School. And at school we used to have the Apple 2e's and the 2e+, wasn't there also an Apple 2c?

Why did schools always get Apple PC's? Weren't they more expensive?

Eric