I had a Commodore Vic 20, I wanted the 64 in the worst way. Peeks and Pokes
What was Your first Computer?
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I think it was a powerful i386 with 5 1/4 inch floppy drive and a monochromatic monitor.... Good old days.....Comment
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ZX-81 with added ram pack that required a sledge hammer and industrial tape to keep it in the worst ever designed interface.
Firmware: 3.25 MHz Zilog Z80A CPU
8K ROM, 1K RAM externally expandable to 64K (56K usable) Display: 24 lines x 32 character text display Monochrome only Sound: None I/O: Z80 bus, 250 baud cassette interface, UHF television out Storage: External cassette recorder
Then came the monster Speccy..
Firmware: 3.54 MHz Zilog Z80A CPU
16K / 48K RAM (later 128K RAM) Display: 32 x 22 character text display 256 x 192 pixel resolution 8 colours Sound: 1 channel, 5 octave (16/48K Spectrums) 3 channel, 7 octaves (128K Spectrums) I/O: Z80 bus, tape, RF television (All Spectrums) External numeric keypad (Spectrum 128) RS232 - Midi Out, RGB, Joystick (Spectrum 128, +2, +2A, +3) Storage: Built-in tape recorder (Spectrum +2, +2A) Build-in 3" disk drive (Spectrum +3)"Windows - A thirty-two bit extension and GUI shell to a sixteen bit patch to an eight bit operating system originally coded for a four bit microprocessor and sold by a two-bit company that can't stand one bit of competition."Comment
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Not a real computer, but the first console I had was the Grandstand. Tennis, breakout & something else at the flick of a switch with two controllers.
Then it was the ZX81 with about 6 button presses just to bring up the 'load' command.
It had the 16k ram pack (I think it was 16k)
The ZX Spectrum followed with a whopping 48k, then the +3 with the 3" floppy drive. I had the box that plugged into the back that allowed you to copy games by pressing a red button. No more waiting for tape loading after that, all my games were saved to floppy.
The Amiga 500 entered my life in about '89/'90. 500KB expansion & external drive. I still have my 500 & a 500+. Every now & now I dig them out & start down memory lane with Wings of Fury, Moonstone, Dogs of War & Shadow of the Beast.Canker
"Animal, vegetable or mineral... I'll do anything, to anything, with anything"
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For all you young ones here was the British computer battle, if you experienced users haven't seen it, its well worth watching...
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIcAyFVK0gE]Micro Men - YouTube[/ame]"Windows - A thirty-two bit extension and GUI shell to a sixteen bit patch to an eight bit operating system originally coded for a four bit microprocessor and sold by a two-bit company that can't stand one bit of competition."Comment
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Mine was an Amstrad CPC464, I harrassed my parents for it for ages. They finally relented but that's all I got for Xmas that year. They bought it together with my grandparents for ?400 out of my Aunty's Littlewoods catalogue
My fave game was about an egg I think was called Dizzy that had to find his way around the kingdom to rescue a princess

I'm tapatalking, excuse any dyac moments xComment
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My first was the Amstrad CPC 6128.. My mother had asked for advice from a family friend on which to buy.. it was a choice between a comodor or the amstrad.. and the amstrad won..Mine was an Amstrad CPC464, I harrassed my parents for it for ages. They finally relented but that's all I got for Xmas that year. They bought it together with my grandparents for ?400 out of my Aunty's Littlewoods catalogue
My fave game was about an egg I think was called Dizzy that had to find his way around the kingdom to rescue a princess

I'm tapatalking, excuse any dyac moments x

My brother lost also and got the 464 hahaha. i laughed because i could stay up and nobody knew.. yet when he played you could hear the game loading for miles hahahaha..Comment


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