Before Windows there was...

[Louisiana Night]

Well not the ones from my first computer an IBM PCjr which I still have and have cartridges for it.  This system rocked and still does in my opinion.

Sounds like a CoCo(Color Computer).

Dino Wars

*RAR!*
*bites*
*hiccup*
*hiccup*
*walks into the sunset*
*hiccup*
*hiccup*
*hits cactus*
*hiccup*
*walks into the sunset*
*hiccup*
*hiccup*
*crash*
*hiccup*
*walks into the sunset some more*
*click click clack click click*

[Jeysie]

Well not the ones from my first computer an IBM PCjr which I still have and have cartridges for it.  This system rocked and still does in my opinion.

Sounds like a CoCo(Color Computer).

I dunno what CoCo you owned, but my dad's didn't use cartridges... it used floppies and tapes.

Now my Vic-20... *that* I think I recall using cartridges.

Peace & Luv, Liz

[Louisiana Night]

The one I have, uses 5-1/2  floppys, cartridges, tapes, and probably some other stuff that I don't have the hardware for. I think it wa a CoCo3, but it might have been a CoCo2.

[Jeysie]

Mine uses 5-1/2  floppys, cartridges, tapes, and probably some other stuff that I don't have the hardware for. I think it wa a CoCo3, but it might have been a CoCo2.

Hmm. My father's was a CoCo 2... although, now that I think about it, did the cartridges go in a slot on the right side of the keyboard? I think now I vaguely remember such a thing, although I thought it was a hardware slot, rather than a software slot. Apparently I was mistaken. (Hey, whaddaya want, I was a kid. ) Or maybe I'm confusing with the Vic-20. Darn useless memory.

Peace & Luv, Liz

[Louisiana Night]

The keyboard WAS the computer. The slot on the right side, was for hardware(floppy drive) and software(Dino Wars).

[Jeysie]

I know the keyboard was the computer. Finally encountering a "modern PC" was a tad baffling. (What do you mean, the computer's in that weird blocky thingy, and not the keyboard?)

As for the slot being multipurpose, that explains my confusion. I don't think we owned any software cartridges, we just used floppies. (Including the beloved monthly program compliations from Rainbow magazine. I think I looked forward to those more than my dad did!)

Peace & Luv, Liz

[dew7]

The PCjr has two cartridge slots and a 5-1/4 disk drive.  My parents expanded the memory from 128 kb's to 640 kb's.  It has no hard drive.  My first adventure game was King's Quest I for the IBM PCjr.

[Louisiana Night]

Rainbow magazine

I have a few years of that magazine, in a box somewhere.

*searches through boxes*

My parents expanded the memory from 128 kb's to 640 kb's.

I think the CoCo I used, it's somewhere in a box, was upgraded from 128 to 256(either that, or it was from 64 to 128). It has a few strong sections of duct tape, keeping that part of it together(the bottom of the PC was taped, because the plastic was removed, I think).