Your first computer

ALLGOOD

Mine was the good old Amstrad 6128, cassette & disk games - its totally stoneage now but had some very addictive games that i would still play if i got the chance to again ! Bombjack and IK+ are two i remember - good times !

Hellrazer

ZX81 Here.Brand new at the time with the wait for it now........A 16k upgrade.
The fear playing 3d monster maze---couldnt sleep for weeks;)
Deadly.

smoke.me.a.kipper

Commodore 64. loved playing Wizball and OutRun.

DaithiSurfer

ZX81

I got it for christmas in '83 or '84 or sometime around then.

Loved it. Powerfull 1KB of memory too.
Got a 16K Ram pack for my birthday and got 3D-Defender.
Loved that game.

Graduated to a 32K ZX Spectrum then and played Jetpack and Manic Miner for years.

ixoy

ZX Spectrum 48K. Fantastic computer whose joys are still available thanks to the wonders of emulation. I eventually upgraded the keyboard, transforming it into the deadly 48K+. 733t.

Stark

Spectrum +2. I remember my excitement to come home one day and find it upgraded to a +3 which *shock* a floppy disk drive

First PC was an IBM 8086 m/c with 1MB of RAM, floppy drive, amber&black monitor, no hard drive, sound card or mouse.

Seamie

Commodore Vic 20. Twas before the 64 I think. Cassette
games, as well as big cartridges that were impossible to get in properly.

Sleipnir

I think it was an amstrad CPC 464. I had a console before that but I can't remember what it was.
Then my first real computer was an IBM PS/2

Dr. Dre

Vic 20, C64, CPC 464, CPC 464+, Amiga 1200.....PC's ever since

Hard drivin' on the 464+ totally 0wn3d !

ALLGOOD

Turbo outrun, ya remember that, goldenaxe now theres another !

also was the loading time of F16 combat pilot on cassette, it used to take something like 1 hour and by the time it loaded you'd have forgotten about it !

MarVeL

48k Speccy was the first one I got my hands on at home. In school we had an apple II and some BBCs. Definitely preferred the speccy

tricky D

checked the attic a few yrs ago

my VIC20 still works, just, has 'loose' joystick and keyb connections. cassette don't work, cartridges do.

IBM AT 286 (2x 5.25inch drives) still worked fine for dos (iirc also got qnx running)

also still got a box of da's punchcards too and a huge (about 12inches dia) copper coloured HD

FYI the first computer in Ireland was called a H2 (for Irish Sugar in early 60's)

jor el

I had a Dragon 32, complete with a 5.25" diskdrive that was about the size of a midi-tower case. Used to play Invaders Revenge constantly. In fact, I played it as recently as yesterday on my Dragon emulator, at work too
Still have the whole kit and kaboodle at home somewhere, might fish it out sometime to see if it all still works.

Tzetze

CPC 464 here too.

Many hours passed playing Elite (among others).

joePC

Commador 64

Great Comp, tape drive sucked.....

Third_Echelon

my first was the commodore 64k... a i remember playing chiller... that kept me entertained for hours.. it was some guy running around a graveyard with zombies chasing him or something like that...

then i got the zx spectrum... great computer too....

Sleepy

First edition Commodore 64 in 1984... Was barely let near the thing...

kenny

Acorn Electron (BBC Mirco's little brother). I bloody loved that machine. Not too much in the way of games for it though.

Atari STe 1040. Loved that too.

Bought my first PC in '94 (486DX2, 4Mb RAM, 340Mb HD, 15" CRT). Cost a grand sterling.

tribble

Amstrad 6128 - 128k RAM, 14" COLOUR Screen, 3" FDD, YAMAHA Polyphonic sound card.

Oh my god, that was 20 years ago :eek:


tribble

irishguy

i was a bit of a late starter, it was a PI 100Mhz 32mb ram , 1.6Gig hardrive, 14" moniter which was purchased about 5years ago for £350 and i still use it today [as a wirless router, but its going to be retired very soon]

jor el

Originally posted by Third_Echelon
a i remember playing chiller... that kept me entertained for hours.. it was some guy running around a graveyard with zombies chasing him or something like that...

Was that not Ghosts & Goblins?

Kone

I had a speccy, a C64 and an Atari STFM!

Yay!

krattapopov

C64 for me, one computer that offered superb gameplay on hundreds of games... i hated that tape drive, but then just recently playing gta vice city.. the start of that game made me smile

Kali

Commodore VIC 20
Acorn Electron
Amstrad 6128+
386SX 25Mhz

Jaden

Radio Shack TRS-80. Z80 microprocessor with 4K of memory. If you wanted a game, you wrote it in level III BASIC, and saved to the external cassette recorder. Arrr.

I still have it.

Lemming

Commodore VIC-20

Followed by a C64 (1st ed. model) + 1541 mk.1 disk drive (the 'brick')

DaithiSurfer

Just thought about it and i think i still have my old spectrum +3 and all the games for it in the attc in my mothers.
I must have a root some day.

Third_Echelon

Originally posted by jor el
Was that not Ghosts & Goblins?

no it was defo called chiller... i think i remember that game you are talking about...

Gurgle

Commodore 64 (old even then, with a green monochrome monitor)
Amstrad PCW8256 (hah!)
386 DX 33
486 DX 100
P1 166

Gyck

Anyone have a ZX80? I got a one of the kits, I'll never forget when I got the portable tv tuned in and first saw the prompt on screen... I got a 16k RAM pack and had to jam some paper between it and the back of the computer to stop it crashing.

I sold that and got a ZX81 about a year later. 3d Monster Maze was terrific, as was Mazogs. I still have a C64 but it hasn't been turned on in about 15 years.

Mossy Monk

Commodore C64

amazing loading screen for the games

Pepe LeFrits

Had some old apple pc with an orange screen. Had a fun space invaders type game on it. Following that, had a C16. (also had a VIC-20 cassette player... i'm not sure if i ever had a vic-20 tho :dunno: ) Thrust and X-Zapp, great games.

C64 after that, Rick Dangerous 1/2 and Midnight Resistance are the two best games I can recall. Creatures 1/2, Mayhem In Monsterland, Slicks, California Games, Outrun Europa (better than Turbo Outrun), International Karate+, and Arnie were all great too.

Following that, it was up to a P60 and superb games like Little Big Adventure, Civilization and C&C Red Alert... mmm, better.

dwayneburke

Good auld reliable BBC Micro....

dazberry

48K Speccy (1984)
Speccy +2 (1987)
C64(1987) 'cos the +2 kept breaking +1541-2 (1988)
C128 [£20 upgrade from CCity for the C64] (1988)
286-10mhz (1989)

... and the next 16 are a sorry history

D.

BuffyBot

First computer I ever saw was a Spectrum ZX81. My older brother bought it and plugged it in. Not long after the TV went on fire. It was never seen in the house again after! Another computer never entered the house until 2000 when my mother was finally convinced I wouldn't be plugging it into the TV

Capt'n Midnight

An Oric, well three actually - (they all died)
Then we got a beeb - folks still have it

Adeptus Titanicus

A ZX81 then, unfortunately, a "Sord M5". Think they were on sale in Arnotts or something... Took these crappy cartridges that you couldn't buy anywhere!

Spent most of my gaming time on a friends C64. Ahhh, Wizball and Head Over Heels... Happy Days!

Edit:

I had to go try find the M5.

http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=217

And the wonderful games!!!! http://emul8.xlabs.sk/emulators/sord/ Man I HATED that baseball game. Was I the only one in the country with this piece of crap?

Woden

was a commodore 64 for me, came with a cartridge, with flimbo's quest, klax, freddie circus (or something) and a soccer game where the football was a plus

when i started playing it, it took me about half a day to figure out i was holding one the extra joystick i had got with it back to front, it was got at xmas and i got the tape deck for my birthday which is only a week or so later.

my first proper computer thingy though was a p3 850 64mb ram 20gb hdd about 3 years ago

data

Makaveli

An Acorn Electron.

Gyck

An Acorn Electron.

I remember that you could embed assembly into Acorn basic... I think? And the same with BBC Micros..?

Defender and Asteroids on the BBC were top class.

Kalina

I didn't have a games console or computer of any kind til I got a NES in the early 90's. Late starter I was. :dunno:

pete

Got a Sinclair ZX81 round about 1982 I think, then went through
Commodore Vic-20
Commodore 64
Commodore 128
Commodore 128-D
Commodore Amiga 500
Commodore Amiga 1200

And then many hops from an old IBM PC (486SX?) with a 12" monitor, to this here machine which has 1 million times the memory of my good ole 1k ZX81.

dwayneburke

The NES....oooooh the memories!!

Mad Mike

A 16k Spectrum.

First computer I fell in love with though was a BBC model B. It was (and still is) the ultimate hobbyists computer - It had a host of nerdy features like built in A/D and D/A converters. It also had an absolutely superb BASIC interpreter built into ROM.

And then of course ..... there was Elite.

byte

An Atari 400! My god, it was useless!

http://oldcomputers.net/atari400.html

rabbitinlights

C64 - Tape drives suck




The i got an amiga 500, i was so pissed when my mate got a amiga 1200 a while later.....



Slightly different to what im typing on now...........

Pigman II

Texas Instruments 99
Amstrad 464
Commodore 64
Amstrad 1512
Amiga 500+

Charmless PCs from then on in

vibe666

first one was my dads Apple IIe, but i spent almost every waking hour playing breakout, space invaders and chess.
[IMG]http://home.wanadoo.nl/mwrene2/ apple/IIe.JPG[/IMG]
then came my very own amstrad cpc 6128 which i enjoyed for many years.
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then i finally got round to buying my own and get myself a generic grey box pc, which had an AMD K6 200mhz a 1.6gb hard drive and i think 16mb of ram, which caused me no end of problems and was probably the main reason i ended up being an IT engineer. damn thing screwed up so much i ended up fixing it myself after a half a dozen support call outs!

dsimpson

My first computer was the size of a whole room!!!!



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weemcd

the firt one i remember is the Amstrad 464, and this must of been lyeing around the house 10 years before i even used it. i remember puttin in the tape and watchin the screen go like at the start of vice city. i had total recall, bubble trouble, and chase hq which was my favourite, you basically drove around knockin the enemy car in the rear till it blew up. good times

irishgeo

C64 and tape drives sucked. Used to hate when i gave my tapes to mates and they came back dirty. I stopped giving them the best tapes then.

i remember copying the tapes. We used to leave the 2 tape radio on its own in a room in case we would disturbed the recording.

to think back now it was hilarious.