What was your first computer?

the groutch

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lastlaugh

An Oric 28k.

And then a Spectrum 48k.

The Oric was funny in that we had a big book of code that you had to type in to load a game. Lots of characters to type in so you were sure to have a load of errors to fix before you could play the crap game.

Actually, now that I think of it, it wasn't fun, it was a real pain in the Ass.

Fart

Year 2000. I had a Compaq something-or-other, 63mb RAM (1mb was lost to graphics or something?), 14GB Hard drive space.

It cost £2,000. Completely ripped off lol. I wouldn't spend that amount on a computer today (well... maybe ).

Hoofball

Standard Toaster wrote: »

Atari 2600 (does that count?)
ZX Spectrum 48K
Atari 800XL

Used to spend hours playing JetPac & Pssst on the Spectrum.


You can play some Spectrum games online here

zxspectrum.net (needs java)

That site is excellent! First computer was a Spectrum 48k, many many hours playing hungry horace and jumping jack, must browse through the others to see which other ones I remember.

Flukey

A ZX Spectrum 48K. The hours of fun spent playing games like Matchday was great. Not quite the quality of the modern games on a Playstation or XBox, but still brilliant in their day. Good times!!!:D

Diddy Kong

Amiga 500 and then moved to a 386 which I upgraded to 486SX and then DX

Duggy747

A £1600 Gateway 2000 machine bought back in 1998. PII with 350Mhz, 10gb HDD, and 32MB RAM.

Ahhh........memories. I think we amased about 6,000,000 hours of "Free Internet!" from all the various PC magazines.

Saint_Mel

Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K
Commodore Amiga 500
386
486

Spectrum was class at the time .... although the Z & X took a fair hammering while doing the hurdles on Daley Thompsons Decathlon.
We only had a black & white portable telly hooked up to it so Jimmy Whites Whirlwind Snooker was tough ... although it gave me a full appreciation of Peter Ebdon.

JetPac was another favourite

Richard tea

My first comp was a abacus. One million Gb of ram.:D

Not sure what came first but I remember having a BBC computer, Atari st & a spectrum.

Snowie

Snowie wrote: »

Im putting this to the people as a hole...

I don't want you putting your hole near me. :eek:

My first computer at home was a Sinclair ZX80, the one with the crap keyboard.
Before that we had access to the "county council" computer when I was at school, we had to write programmes on "computer paper" and wait a couple of weeks for the result.

Wibbs

Sinclair ZX80(oh yes none of your fancy 81's), then a Welsh built Dragon 32. Mad amount of ram for the time, based on a similar American Tandy machine. The first computer I actually used but didn't own was a rellies Apple 2. Never got into programming though I tried it. Don't have the brain for it. Utterly shíte at languages and run out of maths ability when I run outa fingers, plus I'm not linear and ordered in thinking. Too right brained scatterbrained. Sure I can conjure up any number of concepts for say apps on phones, but if I attempted to print my name on the screen in basic you can be damn sure there'll be a bug in it

ronan45

nummnutts wrote: »

Amiga 500.

Nummnuts can you remember Opening that big box . Ill never forget opening up that CARTOON CLASSICS pack. PURE HEAVEN.
I still watch Amiga Games on youtube every so often lol sad giy i am :rolleyes:

arybvtcw0eolkf

nummnutts wrote: »

Amiga 500.

Best computer I ever had.. Micro Prose Golf and Stealth F117 flight-sim.

But my first was a Sinclair ZX80.. I'd spend days inputting code just to see a little stick man run across my TV screen

ronan45 wrote: »

I still watch Amiga Games on youtube every so often lol sad giy i am :rolleyes:

I do that too!.

Ray Palmer

Commadore Vic 20

Then Amstrad 6128 I actually wrote my own programs for it to do certain maths problems and sold it to a few people to do their home work. I also programed it to work out your tax free allowances.

Then I noticed girls and didn't have a computer for about 7 years

MungBean

Havent a clue what it was called, I got it off a mate who got it from a relative when they were throwing out old office pc's. No idea what was on it, the monitor lead was fcuked and I only managed about an hour on a command prompt before it went altogether.

First one that I had that actually worked was a compaq something or other, cant remember the specs but 155Mz rings a bell for some reason. This was about 12/13 years ago and it was a cheap refurnished thing from a dodgy add in the back of the buy and sell. Cost about 150 I think. So even at the time it was a piece of shít. Eventually ran into trouble trying to play a star wars game from a floppy and the machine wouldnt let me boot into windows. I found a nice lookin red switch at the back that I figured might help me but fliipin it resulted in a tiny explosion, me shíttin myself and no more pc.

Then I had my first real pc, fugitsu siemens from ESB shop. Worth about 600 probably cost me closer to 2k by the time I had finished paying it off. Also got a free cd with the buy and sell about how to set up a dial up connection. Good people at buy and sell were kind enough to include the number in their setup program. Found out with my next phone bill that it was a uk number and eircom wanted 700 pound for all the international calls I was making.

alpahaeagle

I started with a ZX81
Then I moved onto the following....
ZX Spectrum 16K ( later upgraded it to 48K )
Commodore 64
Atari 520stfm
Amiga 1200
Then Started the PC

DX 486 1 mb memory and the turbo button ( every time I pressed it the system crashed.)

To many other pc's after to list. :rolleyes:

I have now started collecting the systems again and have the following....

ZX81
ZX Spectrum
ZX Spectrum +2
Oric 1
BBC computer
Arcon Electron
Commodore 16 x2
Commodore 64
Atari 800xl
Atari 130XE
Atari 1040STFM
Amiga 500
Amiga 1200

soon to collect a Dragon 32.

crazygeryy

an msx computer
i dont remember the full name of it.but the games were played by putting a cassette in to a cassette player and it was hooked up to the pc and it made a whole load of noises(like dial up internet) and then the game appeared on the screen.
it was out the same time as the commodore.

anyone remember the full name?

Mr Benevolent

alpahaeagle wrote: »

I started with a ZX81
Then I moved onto the following....
ZX Spectrum 16K ( later upgraded it to 48K )
Commodore 64
Atari 520stfm
Amiga 1200
Then Started the PC

DX 486 1 mb memory and the turbo button ( every time I pressed it the system crashed.)

To many other pc's after to list. :rolleyes:

I have now started collecting the systems again and have the following....

ZX81
ZX Spectrum
ZX Spectrum +2
Oric 1
BBC computer
Arcon Electron
Commodore 16 x2
Commodore 64
Atari 800xl
Atari 130XE
Atari 1040STFM
Amiga 500
Amiga 1200

soon to collect a Dragon 32.

Do you use them or just look at them?

BBDBB

Commodore Vic20

I was envious of my mates BBC B

alpahaeagle

Confab wrote: »

Do you use them or just look at them?

All my systems are used........what is the point of buying something and not using it ?????.

davet82

Atari 2600 i got from my cousin but then a Atari ST 520 for christmas (best crimbo ever)

dj jarvis

Amalgam wrote: »

An Oric 48K. I wanted a Spectrum, took years of therapy to get over that..

na , you have it wrong , the oric was a much better machine than the spectrum , just because the spectrum sold much better does not mean it was

i had a oric atmos 48k ( 1985/86 i think ) and the graphics were much much better on the oric , the oric sold better in france for some odd reason

i had a lot of the early computers ( vic 20 , oric / oric atmos , c64 , amstrad 464 ( green screen ) ) mostly for putting BASIC programming onto

my first floppy drive was the old 5.1 i think it was , and the cradle modem that took the whole phone on it , but even back in 1986 me and a mate were sharing code via the phone lines from one side of dublin to the other,

as a 14 year old i could text via the phone line with my oric atmos in dublin

i still have my oric and must try and get the old girl going :-)
and from reading this thread i now feel really really old !!!!
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zero19

Amstrad CPC 464, what a beast!

kennethsmyth

alpahaeagle wrote: »

I started with a ZX81
Then I moved onto the following....
ZX Spectrum 16K ( later upgraded it to 48K )
Commodore 64
Atari 520stfm
Amiga 1200
Then Started the PC

DX 486 1 mb memory and the turbo button ( every time I pressed it the system crashed.)

To many other pc's after to list. :rolleyes:

I have now started collecting the systems again and have the following....

ZX81
ZX Spectrum
ZX Spectrum +2
Oric 1
BBC computer
Arcon Electron
Commodore 16 x2
Commodore 64
Atari 800xl
Atari 130XE
Atari 1040STFM
Amiga 500
Amiga 1200

soon to collect a Dragon 32.

Dragon 32 was my first computer - 1982, anybody remember wizard wars!

Defiler Of The Coffin

Pentium 120MHz
16MB RAM
2GB Hard Disk
Windows 95

Shoulda waited for Pentium II but what can ya do. Would love to know where the hard drive went. Practically my whole childhood is recorded in some form on it.

laugh

Amstrad then wang.

Vicxas

I got a packard bell from PC world back in 1997, it had an Intel Celeron processor and I hated it and still hate celerons to this day.

TontoMurphy

T'was the BBC Micro for me... Dad was a teacher and and brought it home from school. Remember it sitting on the dining room table for ages while he did his training on it... Great memories.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Micro

Skerries

PeterGriffen wrote: »

First one was a Spectrum 48K, colour clash heaven. Then a Spectrum 128k, then an Amiga 500

that's the same route I went down as well, also the Amiga 1200 and into proper PC's after that starting with a Gateway performance 500 and have built my own since

AeoNGriM

10 REM Print "BUTTSEX"
20 goto 10


*snicker*

(yes I know you could use a ? symbol instead of writing print...ahh good old Atari BASIC)

Bad Panda

Commodore 64! Loved it!

Except the f*cking tape deck! Bloody thing had to be sent for repair about 20 times! The 'new one' too.

Underdraft

AeoNGriM wrote: »

10 REM Print "BUTTSEX"
20 goto 10


*snicker*

(yes I know you could use a ? symbol instead of writing print...ahh good old Atari BASIC)

I did that in a computer shop on a commodore demo model when I was just a nipper (although probably a different swear).

It was going a good 5-10 minutes.

Jordan 199

Oh I do like this thread. I see some posters used i386 & i486 equipped machines.

I must drag out my 1994 Dell price list to see what a Dell equipped with those CPU's cost back then.

Bruthal

A zx81, then a 48k spektrum. I still have that.

RichieC

vic 20. First pc was 486 dx 2.

Well, here's one from 1985!

Just look at what you got for $1,999.
When compared with today. :eek:

Stevokenevo

We had one of those original Pong games with the dial controllers. Other than that, I had an Amstrad CPC 464, green monochrome, BASIC 1.0 and a tape deck, eventually 'upgraded to an Amstrad 6128+, colour screen with a disc drive

RUN"DISC

Underdraft

Deleted User wrote: »

Well, here's one from 1985!

Just look at what you got for $1,999.
When compared with today. :eek:

I like how they've deliberately arranged the panes to make a subtle little computer face.

Ziggy star dust

<Ollie> wrote: »

Atari 800XL. The games were mostly on cassette and took an eternity to load (when they actually worked), and made all sorts of noises in the process.

Snap! i still have mine. Have a shoe box full of cassette games and a few cartidges. Wonder would it be worth anything now?
Used to drive me mad when loading a game you'd be waiting half an hour only to have error come up on the screen and then you'd have to load it all over again. grrr

boobar

Amstrad CPC 464....a virtuals abacus of a machine

opinion guy

boobar wrote: »

Amstrad CPC 464....a virtuals abacus of a machine

How I hated amtrads !!

Does anyone else remember the rivalry between C64 owners and Amstrad 464 owners :pac:

C64 ruled of course

senorwipesalot

Vic 20 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_VIC-20
Cutting edge

cade

boobar wrote: »

Amstrad CPC 464....a virtuals abacus of a machine

My first too, though unlike the manual that came with it I did not have the colour monitor but rather the all green monitor. Still, programming in Basic when I was around 8 was a bit unreal in hindsight

opinion guy wrote: »

Does anyone else remember the rivalry between C64 owners and Amstrad 464 owners :pac:

Why do we need to remember, it's still prevalent today. Amstrad is the supreme machine!

44leto

I had a Babbage difference engine, the porno was OK but very Victorian.

Balmed Out

a wang 386 sx. It was state of the art with a 3.5 inch floppy and windows 3.0 (i think). The windows wasnt great though so stuck to dos most of the time.

portron niner

<Ollie> wrote: »

Atari 800XL. The games were mostly on cassette and took an eternity to load (when they actually worked), and made all sorts of noises in the process.

I've still got mine floating around somewhere, I remember Joust on cartridge being the best thing on it.

Ellis Dee

Mine was a Kaypro, one of the first portable computers and only the size of a medium suitcase. It had 64 kb RAM and ran on two 390 kb floppy discs. I got it around 1980 and paid (then) about €2,800 for it. I used it for word-processing with the WordStar programme. We've come on a bit since then, but it increased my productivity enormously.:):)

2 stroke

Amiga 500+. Still working when I packed it away in original box 15 years ago.

44leto

2 stroke wrote: »

Amiga 500+. Still working when I packed it away in original box 15 years ago.

That was really cutting edge when it came out, it was a leap from all the other computers on the market at that time. I wonder what happened to that company.

I would say your machine is probably worth a bit now.

MajorMax

Vic 20