What was your first computer? (2 Viewers)

[nofriendo]

Had one of these bad boys!

Along with
Atari 2600
Atari 4800
zx specy
c64
atari 1040ste
amiga
master system
nes
mega drive
snes
gba
ds
atari lynx
ps1
ps2
xbox
xbox360

and yes i have no life!!

 

[Jerry Twig]

This is some cool looking machine from 1976. Wood panelling - swweeet

 

[aoboa]

Starting in 1982:
zx81
vic20
c64
x
x
amiga500

Snap
I remember I got the Vic 20 a few months before the C64 came out. As soon as I saw the C64 I wanted to bin the vic20 much to my parents disgust.

I had a ZX81 with the 16K ram pack. The day I got it I set it up on the kitchen counter and typed in 5 pages worth of a game called 'Pyramids of Mars' from Computer & Video Games.
3 hours later and a couple of lines from the end of the code - my mother moved the ZX when cleaning, the ram pack wobbled and I lost everything.
The memory (no pun intended) still haunts me to this day.

I typed the game in safely a few days later. It was shit

 

[Wavioli]

sob sob cry.

and then:

 

[Doctor Muscles]

That was my first computer too! I had the 'Usborne Guide to BASIC' and wrote little quizzes on it.

BLAM! These were ace! I miss it so much.




Not that much

 

[Hott Indie Boy]

BLAM! These were ace! I miss it so much.




Not that much

i wouldn't call them 'ace' so much as 'terrible'

 

[ICUH8N]

turtle on the BBC micro.

awwww yeah

 

[Doctor Muscles]

i wouldn't call them 'ace' so much as 'terrible'

No way, I learned to type on that yoke, typing anonymous angry letters to magazines and such. They were the ace-est.

 

[Franco]

Anyone got an infinate lives poke for Ikari Warriors on the Cpc 464?

cheers.

 

[Hott Indie Boy]

No way, I learned to type on that yoke, typing anonymous angry letters to magazines and such. They were the ace-est.

hmm. i still can't type. it's definitely its fault.

 

[pete]

Had one of these bad boys!

beep
shoot
explode

what was the other one?

edit:
Zap
Ping
Shoot
Explode

Amazing.

 

[pete]

Snap
I remember I got the Vic 20 a few months before the C64 came out. As soon as I saw the C64 I wanted to bin the vic20 much to my parents disgust.

I had a ZX81 with the 16K ram pack. The day I got it I set it up on the kitchen counter and typed in 5 pages worth of a game called 'Pyramids of Mars' from Computer & Video Games.
3 hours later and a couple of lines from the end of the code - my mother moved the ZX when cleaning, the ram pack wobbled and I lost everything.
The memory (no pun intended) still haunts me to this day.

I typed the game in safely a few days later. It was shit

i think i still have that edition of C&VG in me ma's house. probably have the one with dudley's letter complaining they didn't print an MSX feature he was expecting too....

 

[nofriendo]

beep
shoot
explode

what was the other one?

edit:
Zap
Ping
Shoot
Explode

Amazing.

You really do know too much ha ha! oh memories (still have it by the way!)

 

[Scientician 0.8]

I had an Amstrad 6128 CPC first off. It was great! The disk drive is broken but otherwise tis still functioning. I have a souped up Amiga 1200 I use for muzak occasionally. I have to unearth it once more.
You've all of course seen this music video before i take it?
Everybody now.....
"HEY HEY 16K, WHAT DOES THAT GET YOU TODAY???"

 

[Jerry Twig]

 

[nlgbbbblth]

1k ram, black & white, no sound, ridiculous "keyboard".

at the time - deadly! totally awesome to the child me.

now? think: calculator watch.

Remember 1k Chess?

 

[nlgbbbblth]

Snap
I remember I got the Vic 20 a few months before the C64 came out. As soon as I saw the C64 I wanted to bin the vic20 much to my parents disgust.

I had a ZX81 with the 16K ram pack. The day I got it I set it up on the kitchen counter and typed in 5 pages worth of a game called 'Pyramids of Mars' from Computer & Video Games.
3 hours later and a couple of lines from the end of the code - my mother moved the ZX when cleaning, the ram pack wobbled and I lost everything.
The memory (no pun intended) still haunts me to this day.

I typed the game in safely a few days later. It was shit

1982
- Got a ZX81 with 16K RAM pack. Games purchased on the same day were Backgammon and Fantasy Games [Perilous Swamp + Sorcerers Island]. Notoriously tricky to save and load games. I used type in a game, play it for a few days until I got sick of it then unplug the computer as the RAM pack was at boiling point.
Flogged it 12 months later for £150. Game miraculously loaded when demonstrating it to prospective purchaser.

1984
- Got a ZX Spectrum 48K with eight free games from Finn's Photographic in Waterford. The games were Chess, Backgammon, Reversi, Chequered Flag, Flight Simulation, PSSST, Cookie and Jetpac. Had many hours of typing in games from ZX Computing. Had a similar type disaster to aoboa when typing in an adventure game with my neighbour. It was July 1985 and the game was The Golden Chalice. It was so long that it was printed over two issues of ZX Computing. A powercut foiled us halfway through the second part. Soul destroying.

Football Manager was an ace game for the Spectrum. ULTIMATE PLAY THE GAME was the best label. Soft Aid sucked.

Entering machine code was a bitch.

Computer part-works purchased and completed:

The Home Computer Course (1984)
Input (1986)

Various mates had Vic 20, Oric 1, Commodore 64, BBC Micro and Dragon.

 

[ernesto]

commodore c64

flimbos quest or shadow of the beast.

superb

 

[Dktr. Faustus]

Well this was the first computer in our family way back...

http://www.old-computers.com/MUSEUM/computer.asp?c=549

It actually has a handle, so it's really a laptop

 

[Jerry Twig]

Well this was the first computer in our family way back...

http://www.old-computers.com/MUSEUM/computer.asp?c=549

It actually has a handle, so it's really a laptop

apparently they cost a few grand back in the day?!