What Was Your First Computer?

[Jimlad]

For me it was the Atari 2600 and I was about 6years old at the time.

I remember the advert too. It was something like Under £50, £50 ! It cost £49.99 ... lol

Or £90, something like that.. but it was 1p cheaper than what the advert said it was under....

I'm babbling now. What was your first ??

[Boro Sera]

Atari 400. Learned to hack on that one.

Rich

[Jimlad]

Atari 400. Learned to hack on that one.

Rich

Atari 400 ?? ... lol

never heard of the thing

[Boro Sera]

it was the one after the 2600. Touch keypad (whereas the 800 had a real keyboard). Cartridge port and tape deck ! Out at the same time as the Speccy. (and the Video Genie.........Tandy used to sell that one)

Rich

[Ryan1985]

Spectrum ZX, the games were on cassette's!

Cheers

[Jimlad]

interesting... !

I remember some white cartridge and tape ( I think ) machine ( not the c64 ). It was in all the shops when it first came out. I don't think it done very well tho.

But the game that was always on it was called Burning Rubber ( I think ). Anyone know what this thing was ?

Think the cartridge was top loading. White with big circle buttons I think ( no keyboard )

[Boro Sera]

did anyone else spend weeks typing programs in from magazines? only to find they never worked. I'm sure they were put in purely either out of malice or to teach us to type.

Rich

[Jimlad]

Spectrum ZX, the games were on cassette's!

Cheers

yeah.. I had one of these... the noise was well cool.

Ikari Warriors... sure that game took about 30mins to load.. lol

[Jimlad]

did anyone else spend weeks typing programs in from magazines? only to find they never worked. I'm sure they were put in purely either out of malice or to teach us to type.

Rich

yeah I done that. I had some weird texas instruments machine from somewhere at somepoint. Didn't really even do anything.

I typed in a few programs from the instructions.... takes ages. Then you realise it doesn't work, or you made a mistake somewhere.... DOH

[Karma Supra]

ZX spectrum :D

[ZeroBlade]

amstrad for me, then i think it was the amiga.

-Z

[Jimlad]

what amstrad ??

[Boro Sera]

what amstrad ??

was it one of the green screen things with the little noisy printer and rectangular floppy disks? God...I'll have nightmares tonight. (well, I would if I slept)

Rich

[ZeroBlade]

it was the model with the cassettes

this one:

-Z

[Boro Sera]

Ah, yes. It's all coming back to me. I used to fix computers in a previous job, and did my fair share of those ones. (it was always the tape deck)

Rich

[ZeroBlade]

yeh i had to get that replaced at one point!

-Z

[starletsr]

commodore 64 was my first, then the Atari :D

[Jimlad]

my mate used to have one of those ( amstrad thingys )

[JappyBeast]

Mine was a speccy 48k (not the rubber key version). It came with Horace goes skiing and Inca Curse.

Jimlad... do you remember how we used to stick spoons into your Atari cartidge port to get funny colours on the screen when we were young?

[gus]

Texas instruments TI/99 4A

[Moxy]

Commodore 64

The first edition, not the one with the nice curves

[jaxx]

amiga 600

me old man wouldnt let me have anything before that!

always reemebered lusting after the amiga 1200 tho! but we were poor!

[EircamAE86]

Man you lot are all ancient

[Fidgits]

hmm, well first was the Atari with the toggle switches, followed by a 2600..

Then a Amstrad CPC464, followed by a 128 (i think - the one with the disc rather than tape)..

Then a 80286 (proper PC!)!!!

[jez_1_2000]

Mine was like an atari thing.... was just a console with a keyboard but i think the keyboard was just to show cause i never used it!!

that was followed by a amstrad cpc464 with poxy green monitor

a commodore 64 and the big one.... a amstrad pc 386 sx 16.......proper bo a tell thee!!!

then came the amiga's!!