Your first computer?

[victorialush]

Idea for a small thread from Kev... just chatting off topic in an introduction thread on here...

Your first computer... what was it?
I was introduced to computing at a very early age, prob about 10 years old.
My forst comp was a Commodore 64... here I would play games and make the most basic of programs :)

[Kev]

Some wooden Atari system that played pong, then ZX Speccy, then Commodor 16K

[victorialush]

I can remember being dead jealous of one of my friends coz she had an Amstrad, witht he cassette tape on the side... we used to play slots on it and I thought it was the best thing ever :)

http://sbeam.dk/blog/wp-content/amstrad_shuffle.jpg

[john]

ZX Spectrum and then an Amstrad, having to wait ages for games to load from the cassette, we have moved a long way.:shock:

[Kev]

Do u remember trying to copy the games tape to tape? :celb (23):

[victorialush]

Do u remember trying to copy the games tape to tape? :celb (23):

oh god, that would ALWAYS mess up... you would sit there for 20 minutes watching the screen happily load, then at the end there would be an error in line 207

http://iskoblog.wordpress.com/files/2006/04/c64.jpg

[Kev]

>>>>>>Over 5000 speccy games to play on thy net (http://www.ciunga.it/jxspeccy/arc.html)

[victorialush]

>>>>>>Over 5000 speccy games to play on thy net (http://www.ciunga.it/jxspeccy/arc.html)

Coooool, they had Paradroid on the Speccy... I used to love this game *insert nerd icon here*

[Gnomie]

Commodore 64

Took 15 mins to load a game then crashed:shock: :rolleyes:

I remember the first space invader machine going into our local post office. slush drinks and space invaders , what kid could ask for more:)

[theninesisters]

First computer was a very limited 48K +. Basically a hard typed set of keys for the 48k - looked like a +2A but without the Tape player.

First PC was a DX2 66 and cost me £2000 - it was the highest spec you could get at the time! :eek:

[Gnomie]

oh god, that would ALWAYS mess up... you would sit there for 20 minutes watching the screen happily load, then at the end there would be an error in line 207

http://iskoblog.wordpress.com/files/2006/04/c64.jpg

Omg vicky , that takes me back:)

[steveb]

Mine was a Sharp can't remember the model all in one unit you loaded
the OS system from a cassette tape, great machine, then upgraded
to a 286 with a 40mB hard drive and DOS...

[wallasey]

BBC! It was a massive television screen with a tape deck where you put the programmes into. Spent ages on that thing.

The next one was a Tiny Computer running on Windows 95. That still works but is on 98 and is rather slow.

[Max]

Sega Mastersystem I think, then Megadrive.

[FKoE]

Great thread :D .. My first was an Atari ST, with a midi port!!! :unibrow: , then I got an Amiga 500 with 2mb of memory :shock: , and then I got an Amiga 1200A, which had an internal hardrive and 6mb of memory..

Its a shame that all the computers we are talking about were able to just plug into a television via the AV plug.. but PC's were unable too... until only fairly recently.

[bobbymac]

A Tandy. 2 5in drives no hard drive. God knows wott the OS was. HAHA.

[PhilipG]

An Amstrad.
I've still got loads of stuff on 5 inch floppies.
Is there anywhere in Liverpool that'll transfer them to CD?

[Howie]

An Epson PCAX2e. It was a 12MHz 286 running MS-DOS 3.3 with 640KB RAM, a 40MB HD and a 256-colour 640x480 pixel display - quite advanced for 1989.

[FKoE]

An Epson PCAX2e. It was a 12MHz 286 running MS-DOS 3.3 with 640KB RAM, a 40MB HD and a 256-colour 640x480 pixel display - quite advanced for 1989.


An Epsom? .. have you still got bits and pieces of it Howie ?

[Howie]

An Epsom? .. have you still got bits and pieces of it Howie ?

It's still running. My daughter has it in Sheffield. She still plays the old Apogee arcade games such as Jumpman and Paganitzu on it that she grew up with as a child.

[FKoE]

I have an Unk up the road from you, thats desperate for a drive to read some some floppy's.. He's been writing some social history.. but his pooter packed in and he switched to a PC.. so his 'Disks' do not read on a windows PC...

Can we arrange something ?

[Howie]

What size disks? The Epson used 3.5" 720kB disks. I replaced the 5.25" drive in the early nineties.

[FKoE]

What size disks? The Epson used 3.5" 720kB disks. I replaced the 5.25" drive in the early nineties.

3.5 are the ones... I'll phone me Unk up tonight .. he'll be made up if youse can convert the discs :D

I yub you :celb (23):

[FKoE]

He's been writing about the Evactutees (sp).. he was a war child etc ..

[knowhowe]

A Macintosh Classic running system 6.0.4. Still got it, albeit upgraded to 7.5, and it's still going strong.
Been a Mac Head ever since...