What Was Your First Computer?

[EircamAE86]

Remember the Atari advert?????, atari 500 under fifty bucks, under fifty bucks!!!!!

[jez_1_2000]

Remember the Atari advert?????, atari 500 under fifty bucks, under fifty bucks!!!!!

Bargain!!!! :D

[Moxy]

Commodore 64

The first edition, not the one with the nice curves

Just remembered one I had before that...

Can't remember what it was called but it only played "pong" and had two permently connected controllers with rotating dial things to control your paddles. Green and white colour scheme :!Removed!:

[EircamAE86]

So what was the best game like?????

I say kick-off 2, altough Turricane 2 was well ahead of its time

[ZeroBlade]

moxy was it a tandy?

if that was it then i had one of them 2, well it was my dads...

-Z

[jaxx]

anyone remember why amiga was killed off and went bankrupt

basically we wouldnt have playstations and xboxes if it wasnt for it.......

[Moxy]

Yeah, I think it was a tandy.

I still have it in my loft I think. Guess what I'll be doing tonight

[ZeroBlade]

Guess what I'll be doing tonight

erm sitting down infornt of the tv w @ hot cup of chocolate ?

B)

-Z

[Jamesb4uk]

mine was a 086

with a MASSIVE 40mb hard disk

J

[Boro Sera]

Man you lot are all ancient

No we're not!

nobody's mentioned owning an Enigma decoder as a child, or playing with the original Charles Babbage Difference Engine.

Did anyone have Big Trak ? programmable articulated truck that went into the next room and came back with a Banana (as long as you followed it and put the banana in the back yourself............Hmmmmmm). Apparently this was the start of the home electronics lark. Revolutionary at it's time. It actually had more computing power than NASA had for the moon/Area 51 landing in 1969.

Rich

[SexyCrayola]

sorry wasnt an amstrad - no games for me back then

Was an MZ700 - was the nerd programming own stuff in basic.

Then went onto an Amiga 500

[SexyCrayola]

anyone remember why amiga was killed off and went bankrupt

basically we wouldnt have playstations and xboxes if it wasnt for it.......

yeh - after the 600 edition they changed the operating system on the 1200 was it? ... anyway - was much like the MAC OS but none of the previous amiga software would run on it which of course didnt help its popularity. Think was majorly something to do with the megga increase in its colour capabilies.

Shame, because they were damned fine machines. Still are, as you can still get all the up-to date technology for amiga systems and has created a select following - theres a couple clubs out there for them

[System~G]

ZX Spectrum - First game was Manic Miner. Brilliant!

I did try my hand at programming from the magazines. Never worked!

[GIDDLEPIN]

Comodore 64.

Still got it, as new in its box (reckon it's worth anything :D )

[ZeroBlade]

Comodore 64.

Still got it, as new in its box (reckon it's worth anything :D )

peopl' buy nething these days m8! stick it on eBay ur bound 2 make a few bob!

-Z

[Bearcat]

In 1980 I bought a Sinclair ZX81 with 1k of memory and I upgraded it with a 16k RAM pack. The computer cost around £70 but I can't remember how much the RAM pack was.

picture of a ZX81

[Boro Sera]

When I was fixing computers, we used to use a ZX80 as a wedge to keep the workshop door open. !Removed! things go for loads on eBay now. Dammit.

Rich

[Fizz]

Supprised no one has mentioned the 'Commodore Vic 20'... had a seperate cassette drive.. had wicked games on it...

Then moved to the Atari 2600!... and Pong!!... what a game!

Then the Master System / Master System 2 / Game boy / Game Gear / Snes / PS1 / PS2 / Xbox....

Somewhere along the lines i started my PC owner ship with a 386 SX!!

[Nicola]

Bearcat, I thought the ZX81 came out in 1981, hence the name.

My first puter was a ZX81, which I got in 1982.

Yes I also spent hours typing those stupid programmes that didn't work.

I still have the ZX81 and printer in my parents loft and a dodgy old atari console in its box, with asteroids and golf. I couldn't part with them. Every so often I have to plug them in and remind myself of 'modern technology'.

Can't believe I have owned a computer(s) for 22 years! I feel old.

[Chappers]

C64, brill! Took 30mins to load a decent game to find it crashed/mum turned it off/boys come round to play footy/time for bed/bored.......... :)

Then along came the NES, the rest is history...................................

[ZeroBlade]

Then along came the NES, the rest is history...................................

how mint was duck hunt with the zapper? :)

-Z

[daz1970]

Toshiba MSX then an amiga

[Paul C]

ZX Spectrum - First game was Manic Miner. Brilliant!

I did try my hand at programming from the magazines. Never worked!

yep I had one off those, we used to play Attic Attack

it had lovely rubberey keys that did more than one function and you would spend hours trying to find the key with the word on that you wanted aarrrr they were the days

[Leeky]

My 1st was a Grandstand, which i think was a blatant rebadge of an Atari which featured 1 cart with a handful of games on it.

[FineCactus]

Atari 2600.

The best thing is i got it out of the loft about a month ago and and started using it again. When the lads and i have had a few, tennis with square blocks and pacman is just the best games ever!