What was your very first computer?

[ivebeenhigh]

commodore 16

 

[internetstalker]

then one of these:

I saved up ( I worked on a golf course) £400 and paid for that myself when I was 13-14


good times

 

[kabbes]

After the Spectrum ZX+, I then had an Atari STE.

 

[Kanda]

then one of these:

I saved up ( I worked on a golf course) £400 and paid for that myself when I was 13-14


good times

I worked on a market stall when I was 13-14 to buy a C128 for myself

same Market stall years later got me my A1200

 

[SK.]

One of those followed by

Mitsibushi MSX 64 it had a cartridge slot for rom games

 

[kabbes]

Looking back, the MSX was an awesome machine for its time.

 

[internetstalker]

I worked on a market stall when I was 13-14 to buy a C128 for myself

same Market stall years later got me my A1200

I had more money at that age then I have ever had since

I was on £2.50 an hour working every night with double time at weekends

I'd get £200-£400 a month. I was fucking loaded at 14

 

[skyscraper101]

Commodore 64 which I acquired from my uncle in the eighties. I only really remember playing ghostbusters on it and it taking ages to load up from tape.

My first proper computer was an IBM Thinkpad in about 1996 with Windows 95 which came with 8Mb or RAM and Lotus 123.

At school I used BBC Micro in the early nineties which was probably the most uninspiring and tedious computing I've ever done. At secondary school I think we had Acorn computers and then Windows 3.1 and finally Windows 95.

 

[Kanda]

I'd get £200-£400 a month. I was fucking loaded at 14

Same, I even had my own little business at school.

(One of the markets I used to work was Norfampton )

 

[King Biscuit Time]

The world's only Welsh-built home computer. Port Talbot's finest.

It was waaaay out of date when we got it (must have been about 1988). You couldn't get games for it anywhere, and it couldn't do lowercase. And the chance of an actual game loading was about 50/50.

But I loved it - and got my dad hooked on Manic Miner too.

 

[fen_boy]

then

 

[kyser_soze]

Zx-81 + 16K ram pack

Spectrum 48K rubber keyboard

Commodore 64

Commodore Amiga 500 + 512K memory expansion pack

Then consoles for about 15 years

HP Tablet PC that I skanked from work.

 

[bluestreak]

A BBC Micro. I think my Dad picked it up from someone at work. We played games on it. It was amazing!

 

[kyser_soze]

First computer I ever used was a Commodore PET round my Ma's BFs - played space invaders on it for about 3 hours, thus ensuring a life of videogame addiction

 

[berniedicters]

Looking back, the MSX was an awesome machine for its time.

I think that was my second computer. It had bank-switched memory to allow for >64kB, and a Z-80 processor. More fun writing assembler, but even harder without an assembler programme, on account of Z-80 machine code being rather more complex than 6502.

 

[WWWeed]

my second computer was one of these:

Hey I recognize that splash screen!

is that lemmings??

 

[Kanda]

Hey I recognize that splash screen!

is that lemmings??

All Psygnosis games had that splash screen.

 

[UnderOpenSky]

Thread needs poll!!!

Another Spectrum users here, I had to upgrade it from 16k to 48k to play the latest games. Then onto an Amiga 500+ before upgrading to my first PC, a Pentium 100.

Never owned a console other a very second hand dreamcast which cost me £20 and had lightguns.

 

[EastEnder]

As a family we had a ZX81, then an Apple II & a BBC B. The first 'puter I owned was an Amiga 500, with the obligatory 2nd floppy drive & Xcopy for disk-to-disk game copying.

 

[The Groke]

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it had a cartridge slot for rom games

As did my 800xl

 

[Signal 11]

A 286 @ 8MHz w/ MSDOS 6, 1MB ram and 20MB hard drive, in 1994.

Thread needs poll!!!

This.

 

[Sunray]

ZX81 with just 1Kb of memory and then the wobbly 16Kb ram pack. That cost serious money at the time and was enough to store about 5 of the 'post reply' button graphics you see on this page. No soft reset button on it meant it was a mare if it crashed you had to pull the plug, losing everything.

Had fun with it though. Typed in loads of magazine games, you had to type assembly games into a rem statement as there was no other way of saving the contents of memory. Saving was a bit hit and miss.

Tomorrows world managed to do an experiment on it by giving away a flexi disk, which was vinyl record like thing that you had to record to tape and then load on the ZX81. Amazingly, even with the dodgy load/save of the ZX81, it loaded.

I can't remember what it did.

 

[_pH_]

Vic-20

me too

*high five*

 

[mr steev]

Spectrum 48k for me in the early 80's then an Amiga 1200 a few years later

 

[_pH_]

squishykeys

 

[kalidarkone]

This one which is an Evesham and about 7 years old.

 

[mr steev]

squishykeys

With the letters rubbed off several keys... z and x mostly



I've just remembered my thermal printer for my speccy. Fantastic for printing out stuff on paper not much bigger than a till roll.

 

[_pH_]

the one i'm using now is my first 'PC' iyswim

i originally bought it back in 2000 iirc, from some internet trader that's now gone bust. I think it was P3 933MHz with 512Mb of RAM, 40Gb hard drive, ATi graphics card, 56k dial up modem separate 5.1 sound card, DVD player, CDRW and WinME

upgraded a few years ago to ASuS m/board with on board sound, Radeon 9550 graphics, 2GHz Sempron, 1Gb RAM, added an extra 80Gb HDD, and swapped CDRW for DVDRW. does what i need it to

 

[Cid]

It had the best version of a Pac Man style game EVAR. I was super-good at that.

Also a space game that I'm sure I remember being first-person perspective. I could never figure out how to play it though, on the grounds of being 5 years old.

You sure the space game wasn't on the Spectrum? They released Elite for that in '85.

 

[PacificOcean]

My first computer was a Commodore 16 as my parents couldn't afford a Commodore 64.

My first PC was a 386-16 with 2mb of ram in about 93.