Comments on: PMC 210: Toby Huss

By: Meghan

Meghan — Mon, 17 Oct 2016 14:50:36 +0000

My first computer was a Dell something. It was the family computer, I don’t know exactly, but I do remember spending hours watching my brother try and fail to complete an Indiana Jones Raiders of the Lost Arc game on it. Anyways, Toby Huss is a great individual and I’m happy to see him pop up wherever he does. I’m a huge Pete and Pete fan from childhood and there’s a happy nostalgia that comes with seeing any of those guys on other things.

By: Cale C.

Cale C. — Mon, 17 Oct 2016 08:17:59 +0000

Toby was a fun guest. I’ve been a fan since his early MTV shorts and of course Pete and Pete. He’s a unique actor with interesting energy. I always enjoy seeing him pop up in things.

Now for the question… we were late to the home computer game. I had used the old macs with big floppy disks in school, playing Number Munchers, Oregon Trail, etc., but we didn’t get our first at home until 1998. I can’t remember what model it was since I was maybe allowed to touch it twice.

My first computer was a hand-me-down from my dad; a Compaq Presario desktop circa 2002 with a 40 gb harddrive. We still had dial-up internet until early 2007. It was painful.

By: Anthony Joseph

Anthony Joseph — Sat, 15 Oct 2016 12:43:22 +0000

Back in the early 90’s my family of 6 all shared this old school IBM, which wasn’t capable of much. I couldn’t even play Oregon Trail on it; I was reduced to countless hours of Mine-Sweeper, which I never really got better at. Luckily, by the end of the decade, my parents upgraded to an Emachine (ugh) with Windows Millennium Edition (double ugh). At least it allowed me to download a song on Napster, once every five hours.

By: Carl Fink

Carl Fink — Sat, 15 Oct 2016 04:07:08 +0000

The first computer my family got was a Packard Bell. (Remember them?) It had a 200MB hard drive–probably gigantic compared to some other people’s first, but still minuscule compared to even a cell phone today.

By: Brad Young

Brad Young — Fri, 14 Oct 2016 12:27:35 +0000

Tandy 3000. Pretty much only used for a Doogie Howser style digital diary. Very futuristic indeed.

By: Dean Knowles

Dean Knowles — Fri, 14 Oct 2016 00:22:22 +0000

My first computer was so old that I don’t think they’d become imaginitive with names yet.
It may have just been called ‘COMPUTER’.
This ancient box was purchased very late in the game seeing as my friends were rockin’ MSN a year or 2 later. All I knew of the internet was that Drew Barrymore’s Playboy pictures could load on there in under an hour and a half.

Long story short, ‘COMPUTER’ is my answer.

By: Joe Cuffe

Joe Cuffe — Thu, 13 Oct 2016 21:17:28 +0000

My first computer was a TRS-80 that my high school loaned my parents for our first computer programming course. I never did learn coding, but still passed the class.