Quote Originally Posted by kate View Post
Oy, yeah - I had an Apple ][ (originally with a WHOPPING 16k RAM, eventually we upped it to a then ungodly 64k) as my first machine. I think it was '77 when we got that, and then a year later we got a disk drive and a micromodem (300 baud, baby!). I used to do horrible things to my parent's phone bill by using BBS's and the like. My favorite was one bulletin board system that would let you play Eamon and you could, if you paid for the premium service (which was some ridiculous hourly rate), play it with 1 other person. There was no boxing, but I did learn Applesoft BASIC inside and out by writing a pretty fun set of BBS software so I could have my own board.
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Fun times!
That sounds pretty much like me, though you could add 6y extra for that. I used the same machine and shortly after the Apple Macintosh Plus. And I used to play Dark Castle / Beyond Dark Castle. Which was an awesome gome back then.