Right everyone... What was your first ever computer??

Not really a computer, but definitely computerised!!!

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Spectrum 48K for me. I still have it somewhere and I'm sure it still works - it certainly did when I fired it up in 1998 having not used it in 8 years!

First PC was a 486dx33mhz from Dan Computers, with a 210mb hard drive and 4mb of RAM. How powerful did I feel when I later paid £120 for an extra four 1mb SIMMS to upgrade to a whopping 8mb... Err not very, in reality!

I still have 8x1mb SIMMS if some one wants to make me an offer :D
 
First ever computer was a Acorn Electron that I was given, a bit like this one
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Spent all evening with my Dad writing out hundreds of lines of code only to find out at the end we'd left a digit out!
Or the final result was a line bouncing around the screen
But the first one we bought was an Amiga 500 with a wopping 1mb Hard Drive & that was an optional extra.
Never actually bought any full games as I bought a magazine every month that gave away demos for free on floppy disk.
 
Mines bigger than yours :razz:
I didn't own it cos I couldn't get it my house but I worked at IBM UK Head Office in Chiswick in 1967 and these beasts took up about 2 floors of our office block. I think your average Palm jobbie of today has probably got 100 times (I stand to be corrected) more ooomph in them than these.

 
My first computer was an Amstrad CPC464 with built-in cassette player in 1985, but I quickly upgraded to a CPC6128 which had a floppy drive.
Next was an Amiga 1200 (remember all that frustrating swapping of Workbench floppies??)I later bought an 85mb, (yes, 85MB) hard drive for it... for £130!
 
Commodore 64. Used to spend hours playing this:

KickStart

See that player 2 - thats how good I was :D

Edit - and this:

Paperboy
 
Amstrad CPC464 for me.
Dave
 
ok

My first was the iconic zx81

later...
spectrum 48k and the amstrad version with tape deck (still have)
Amstrad cpc 464 and 6128
Atari stfm
Amiga 500 (still have) 500+ 1200 and the amiga 1500 (work provided)
Sgi indy (still have)
Sgi octane (still have)

lots of PC's
 
BBC model B 32K. Couldn't afford the HDD or floppy so used to save and load with a cassette player. Used to sit for ages watching colossal adventure load only for it to fall over at the last minute. It was on the cassette at two speeds and I had to load the slow speed version to get it to load, used to take around half an hour. Never did get past the maze.
 
Brother 486DX something or other, a relative late comer to PC's compared to some here! :D

Anyone remember DAN? still have my old tower case that housed my 166mx pentium, cost me around £1,300!!

Also anyone remember the Celeron 1A "Overclocking Wonder" built my 1st self build with that marvel

Makes you wonder what we will be using in another 10-15 yrs :D
 
Pretty similar to route to many

ZX81 kit
Spectrum 48k
Oric-1 (briefly)
BBC B
Electron (when they were giving them away!)
BBC Master with 8086 copro
Atari ST
Lots of PCs .......
 
shufty said:
...Acorn Atom here too. Had to build it first though :D :D
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Mine too!
I too had to build mine. Built it into a commercial terminal case, so looked quite posh ;)

I have a photo of it somewhere in the loft...
... where my much expanded BBC model B still resides.
Had one of my programs published in A&B Computing, which paid me enough to buy my first printer.

One of the (cheesy) tunes I programmed into the Beeb's Music5000 (circa 1989)... promenade
 
Anyone ever owned one of the Next Cube?
 
First computer was a Commodore 64 and an external 5 1/4 disk drive bought by my dad for mw to use at college.
I spent more time playing Elite than college work though.

Ive still got a ZX81 in the attic for old times sake :shrug:
 
A Z80 system I designed myself with a hand coded operating system in a 2764 EPROM, and 8k RAM.
 
ZX81 first (I was 5 and hid behind the sofa when my dad played monster maze!). I actually also remember this being on in one part of the kitchen whilst my dad was developing films over the other side! We then had:
MSX, C64, Amiga 600 and then PCs ever since.

For myself its been PCs with 1 rogue mac.
 
nikonuser said:
Amstrad CPC464 for me.
Dave
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Same here I had the CPC464 with the green screen GT65 monitor first computer

then a 386 PC, Amiga 500, 486 PC
Had the 486 until the year 2000 in which I upgraded to an AMD Athlon 1.7GHz, and then upgraded to the Liquid Cooled intel core2 Duo 3.0GHz which is my main machine. :)
 
ZX-81 with 16K RAM Pack. At the time I thought the flight sim game was fantastic.
Remember waiting 10 minutes for anything to load from the casette.
Oh how times have changed!
 
Had a zx81, Vic20, commodore 64, speccie 128, Amiga 500 and a 1200 with philips monitor and 120MB hd!. Sold out to the PC *** got a 486 sx25, 4 mb ram, no soundcard or cdrom just to play Doom!, been tons of pc's since then ***
 
Have you lot seen how much ZX81s go for on ebay :) If they are boxed you get a lot more and if you have a ZX80 you are looking at hundreds. I used to collect 8 bit machines and know of an absolutely pristine UNBUILT ZX80 all in its original box with plans etc that went for £1500 not too long ago but that was a museum quality find!
 
Zx spectrum with the must have games of the day manic minor, lightcyles two dots speeding around the screen leaving a line if you crashed into the other line you lost,chucky egg and Daley Thompson's decathlon after playing this button bashing game the soft metal around the buttons would have dents in it:lol:
 
gwgw said:
lightcyles two dots speeding around the screen leaving a line if you crashed into the other line you lost
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My claim to fame is writing that for the BBC model B whilst still at school :cool:
 
Vic 20 or Commodore C64 (cant remember) was the first one I owned. First one I used was a BBC Micron at school, remember playing a game called Grannies Garden!!
 
Who else remembers the BBC micro?

Remember this:

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Well if you do and you now own a Mac then click HERE for the best Mac BBC emulator.

What use is a BBC emulator without:

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If you want it then click HERE

For the ultimate BEEB version of Elite run the BBC emulator click hardware at the top and select "65C02 second processor" then go to FILE and select RUN DISC then select the file ELITE128.img that you downloaded seperately.


Enjoy.....

If you want Arcadians then click HERE

If you want Snapper (pac man) then click HERE

My second favourite game FRAK!!

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If you want it then click HERE

To run frak follow the Elite instructions but once the image is loaded change the computer type to normal BBC model B and then type CHAIN"FRAK"..... Remember the keys are where they would be on a BEEB
 
Steve Smith said:
We just drew in the dirt with a stick.



Steve.
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Wow! You had a stick, must be upper class, we had to use our fingers in the dust.
My "real" first PC was a Tiny. Can't remember the model No. It had 128RAM, 600hz processer and a 17GB HDD. It could cope with anything at the time (1999) and I used to try to keep the HDD content to less than 2/3rds full as it slowed it down. I now have more HDD used by the OS than I could have dreamt of back then. Oh and the interweb was on dial-up and I wondered why people were raving about it. It was full of text pages that took ages to download, but every (well almost every) bit of software available at the time was free to download, you just needed patience.:shrug:
 
Commodore C64 then after a gap PC from Tiny

Despite all the bad press Tiny got it lasted five years and never missed a beat, seems you either got a real good'un or a complete rub out
 
First computer I had which I could call my own had a P166 CPU, 128mb of RAM *I think*, and a Matrox Mystique graphics card. It ran Windows 95 I think :)
 
another one here that had a Dragon 32. Bit surprised to see so many others here that had them - no one else seemed to have them at the time - everyone else we knew had either Vic20s or ZX81s. Fave games for me included Ugh, Chucky Egg, and Buzzard Bait - not that that got played very often thanks to it taking something like 14 minutes to load!

Still got it tucked away somewhere, might just have to dig it out sometime :D
 
Commedore 16 from about the age of 6 or 7 I think. Then an Atari ST-FM then into the PC world with a 486DXII50, then onwards and upwards but I do need a new one come to think of it.
 
Dragon 32
Spectrum
Spectrum+
Atari ST
PC

The PC's a bit like Trigger's broom; it's had several new lots of all the various components over the years, but never all replaced at the same time, so it's still the same PC I got in 1990... :D
 
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