What was Your first Computer?

**ManofScience** · 18th September, 2009, 01:12 PM

it was the zx80 then 81 from what i can remember. then the 48k (rubber keys) came out.

**chroma** · 18th September, 2009, 01:32 PM

Atari 2600 VCS with WOODGRAIN finish

i kicked ass at dig dug and even still have it with cartriges.

Then a 48k Spectrum.
Then a 128k+2a Spectrum, with a few interfaces. (still have this too with a stack of cassettes)
Then an Amstrad PC 1640HD20 ran dos on an 8mhz 8086 with 640k of memory, first computer i really learned x86 assembly on with shitty microsoft MASM and debuggers.

Then i upgraded to a 286, then 386 SX (32bit REAL mode!), then i got me an AMD K6 and ive never looked back.

Between all this ive had non "pc" gear like an Amiga 500 and later 1200 and consoles like the Nes, Snes, Megadrive etc.

Ive always been computer daft, spending more on gear than on anything else in my life, used to save relentlessly to buy hardware and bootleg everything i could get my hands on to get new gear

**yorkslad** · 18th September, 2009, 01:49 PM

this for all zx spectrum people, have a look and play the old games ZX Spectrum Games - ZXSpectrum.net

**Lainie** · 18th September, 2009, 01:50 PM

are you meaning pc's or games consoles??

**ITS A SCAM !** · 18th September, 2009, 10:29 PM

Here is the list of all the PC's i had over my younger years
ZX80...i think it had half a K of memory..

ZX81...That did have a huge 1K of memory !! Easily expanded with a cheeta 16K RAM pack
Dragon 32K full size QWERTY keyboard
Acorn Electron 16K..nice machine
Dragon 64K What a machine for a Welsh based company !! Shame they went Bust !
Spectrum 16K......Jet pack made this machine just about good
Spectrum 48K.......Ditto
Spectrum 128k+2 ( also wafa drive version ) Good QWERTY keyboard, and came with a 007 james bond Gun & game..also had a built in tape deck....so a all in one unit from Sir Clive Sinclair
BBC Model B 16k..... WOW !
BBC Model b 32K.....I had a Disc Doctor ROM chip in this one !! Copying 5.25 floppys was never easy..

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BBC Archemedes..........what a waste of ?1000 !!!
I then had a long break whilst i discovered Alcohol, Drugs, and women !! ( in that order )
i now run 2 rigs at home........nothing special, as i cannot afford....Ahhhhhhhhhhh the good old days !!

**w!zzard** · 18th September, 2009, 10:53 PM

My was an old Tesla PP-06 :-) i think with 4 Mhz :-)

**cunny** · 18th September, 2009, 11:59 PM

Well i am 30 years old. So my 1st pc would be about 9 months older than me. Yes it would have to be my brain..

Games console atari 2600

Actual computer a P1 700mhz

**firestorm** · 19th September, 2009, 01:15 AM

i rember geting pc mag with programs in them that you had to type into symbol by symbol for hour just to get a picture of a man walking or somthing else crap and then there was jetman and ant attack which you had to listen to all them beebs while they loaded from a tape good old days

**zak101** · 19th September, 2009, 03:59 AM

Amos,Amos pro,Dice C.....Ace

**^^TommyTee** · 19th September, 2009, 04:16 AM

zx spectrum

load .................................................. .. haha

**aftermath** · 19th September, 2009, 08:10 AM

Originally Posted by manxspud

BBC Micro... about 1982/3. Used to load the games off a tape deck... fav game was chuckie egg.

same here a BBC-B , tape deck

i used to sit up all night typing in the proframmes out of the BBC Micro monthly magazine and often accidently hit the exit key and lost all my work.

you can still play these games on your PC using a Beeb emulator, from here

and download thousands of BBC games here , chuckie egg is there too

Favourite games were

Chuckie Egg
Citadel
Sabre Wulf
Alien 8
Attic Attack
Repton

i could go on for ages there was so many

**aftermath** · 19th September, 2009, 08:54 AM

I am sure i paid ?499 for my first computer , BBC-B

used to take about 20 mins to load a game, it came with some demo speech tape and learning tapes for kids, it had one of those etch-a-sketch games too , and pong , the tennis game , where you had to have 2 peeps using same keboard to control a bat each end of the screen and a square ball to bat.