What was your first killer app or game?
1 posted on
04/13/2005 9:18:26 PM PDT by
gilor
To: gilor
word processing.
It's also the app that tought me to save my work frequently.
2 posted on
04/13/2005 9:20:00 PM PDT by
flashbunny
(Any discussion involving cats apparently requires the abandonment of logic by cat lovers.)
To: gilor
App = Xtree
Game = Wolfenstein
3 posted on
04/13/2005 9:20:47 PM PDT by
MarineBrat
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To: gilor
Early stuff? I go back to 1966: the IBM 1401, with 16 KB of memory, tape drives, chain-driven printers (that we could program to make music of a sort), writing out programs (in Autocode) on large sheets of paper before typing out each line on a punch card machine.
The "killer app" back then was just being able to do number-crunching/statistics.
To: gilor
Two productivity programs:
"Letter Perfect" by LJK Enterprises (for the Atari 800) [an early word processor]
"Publishing Partner" by Softlogik Publishing Corporation (for the Atari ST) [Now called PageStream and it is a desktop publishing program for the Mac, ST, Amiga, and Windows]
To: gilor
word processing; wirting my first pc based resume in mid 80s on a wang2000.
To: gilor
Zork on the Apple IIc...
To: All
10 posted on
04/13/2005 9:51:18 PM PDT by
gilor
(Pull the wool over your own eyes!)
To: gilor
"the early stuff (ATARI 800XL..."
1982-1985 early? ;')
First killer app... hmm... never been much of a player of computer games, so it would be a free demo disk I got in the mail (dunno why) for a copy-protected word processor, Zardax, which ran on the Apple II (under DOS 3.3, the kind from Apple, not MS). Thinking back on the interface, I still kinda like it, for a menu style.
Jack Tramiel:
http://www.commodore.ca/history/people/1989_you_dont_know_jack.htm
12 posted on
04/13/2005 11:07:56 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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To: Swordmaker; HAL9000
14 posted on
04/13/2005 11:11:50 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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To: gilor
Killer App? PaperClip for the Commodore 64 with the required dongle. That was when my mother decided that she needed a computer. It was then that I figured these home computers would really take off.
Killer game? SuperTaxMan (sorry, had to toss in a Hal Labs reference...) I'd have to say M.U.L.E., though my wife was really into Sword of Fargol (followed by Mail Order Monsters.)
15 posted on
04/13/2005 11:15:19 PM PDT by
kingu
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To: gilor
Wumpus....using paper tape on a teletype machine....
Yes, I'm old....
To: gilor
I also used to program LOTS of things with assembly language on a Z80 processor.
My first "personal" computer was a TRS-80 Model 1 Level II with a cassette tape interface.
To: gilor
20 posted on
04/14/2005 2:03:08 AM PDT by
bad company
(fish tremble at the mention of my name)
To: gilor
"Leather Goddess' of Phobos" on an old Radio Shack Tandy 1000EX. This boat anchor of a computer didn't have a hard drive, only 38K of memory and ran everything from 5 1/4 inch floppies.
21 posted on
04/14/2005 3:15:02 AM PDT by
cuz_it_aint_their_money
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To: gilor
Star Raiders on the Atari 800. And then...Leisure Suit Larry.
23 posted on
04/14/2005 5:29:49 AM PDT by
Bloody Sam Roberts
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To: gilor
I bought the Atari800 for ~$800 essentially to get the PacMan cartridge. Remarkably at the time I saw it as a way to save on quarters!
To: gilor
The first piece of software I ever purchased was Doom. In fact I think Doom is the whole reason I convinced my parents to buy a PC when I was around 13.
32 posted on
04/22/2005 8:30:32 AM PDT by
somniferum
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