What was your first computer?

Jesus Wept · 13-03-2010 07:13PM

OutlawPete wrote: »

Same here, can't for the life of me remember what the fuck I was doing all those hours when not playing games on it.

I remmeber a book came with hours with programmes in it that when you typed them into the computer (took hours) stupid things would happen, like a baloon floating.

The slightest mistake typing in the code meant starting all over again also.

lol!! That brought back a memory.
I remember my 2 older brothers spending an entire day typing in code for some sh1t program and then when it didn't work - accusing one another of messing it up and having a physical fight about it.

lolcommador64aments!

jayteecork · 13-03-2010 07:16PM

The-Rigger wrote: »

lol!! That brought back a memory.
I remember my 2 older brothers spending an entire day typing in code for some sh1t program and then when it didn't work - accusing one another of messing it up and having a physical fight about it.

lolcommador64aments!

I did that with some program that came with the Quest monthly enclycopedia.

Fkn thing never worked after I spent the day at it.

For Forks Sake · 13-03-2010 07:17PM

Commodore 64

then Atari 520ST. You can stick yer Amigas

dlofnep · 13-03-2010 07:18PM

For Forks Sake wrote: »

Commodore 64

then Atari 520ST. You can stick yer Amigas

Posh boy!

joolsveer · 13-03-2010 07:21PM

Sinclair Spectrum 48K

For Forks Sake · 13-03-2010 07:23PM

dlofnep wrote: »

Posh boy!

:cool:

kowloon · 13-03-2010 07:25PM

I didn't own a computer until much later than my friends. I remember the tapes taking so long to load that we usually went outside to play and found something better to do. A lot of the time, when we finally made it back in, the tape had failed to load, and the process started again.

I don't think I would have been as active if the computers/consoles of today had been around back then.

I remember having a 20Mb HDD with a disk in it the size of a vinyl record.
Remember when floppy disks were actually floppy?

bnt · 13-03-2010 07:33PM

1988: a PC-XT clone, 10MHz 8086 CPU, 1MB of RAM, 20MB hard drive. A year later I paid a lot of money to upgrade it to PC-AT spec, with a 20MHz 80286! I got a lot done with Framework III , but then I installed Windows 2.0, and things went downhill from there ... :pac:

cynder · 13-03-2010 07:42PM

jayteecork wrote: »

I did that with some program that came with the Quest monthly enclycopedia.

Fkn thing never worked after I spent the day at it.

I love Quest.

i remember doing lines of code that began with a number for instance

10 if 5 go to 20.

ha just found it on wiki

10 INPUT "What is your name: ", U$
20 PRINT "Hello "; U$
30 INPUT "How many stars do you want: ", N
40 S$ = ""
50 FOR I = 1 TO N
60 S$ = S$ + "*"
70 NEXT I
80 PRINT S$
90 INPUT "Do you want more stars? ", A$
100 IF LEN(A$) = 0 THEN GOTO 90
110 A$ = LEFT$(A$, 1)
120 IF A$ = "Y" OR A$ = "y" THEN GOTO 30
130 PRINT "Goodbye "; U$
140 END

did that loads of times

KnifeWRENCH · 13-03-2010 07:46PM

Have absolutely no idea what first PC was; it was only about 11 years ago or so when my parents splashed out on one, so it wasn't anything too old fashioned.
The first and only console I've loved was the NES; it was my sister's but I claim squatters rights over it because I played it much more. No game will ever come close to the level of awesomeness that isSuper Mario Bro.s 3.

Run_to_da_hills · 13-03-2010 08:04PM

First family computer was a Sinclair ZX 81 Spectrum. Piece of unusuer friendly crap that ended up as a door stop before it got binned.

First "real" computer was a Intel 486 DX 2 66 which cost an arm and a leg. almost £2000 (1/10 the price of a house in a rough part of Dublin at the time.)
Single speed CD rom, 4 megs ram.

I upgraded it from original specs to 8 megs ram at a cost of nearly £200quid. :eek:

BTW a 128K modem was £250, basic HP 550C Printer £500 and colour scanner was close to £400 in 1995 :eek:

beardo81 · 13-03-2010 08:53PM

Amstrad 6128Plus off Santy. Discs and cartridges, hated waiting for tapes to load up!
Burnin' Rubber rocks!!!

Chel_boy · 13-03-2010 09:14PM

Comodor 64

El Weirdo · 13-03-2010 09:15PM

Thought I was gonna be the first one with one of these but was beaten to it after a couple of posts... Sharp MZ700

Had a BBC Micro and a C64 around the same time...

10 Print "El Weirdo" is GOD
20 Goto 10
30 Run

Think ^^^ that may be wrong...

Edit: Great thread...

Coriolanus · 13-03-2010 09:17PM

Technically the first computer was a Commodore 64. First PC was an IBM 386.

Edit: 64, not 65 <<

madraalainn · 13-03-2010 09:19PM

commodore 64,

i would put in a tape in the cassette to play the games

madraalainn · 13-03-2010 09:21PM

really i thought it said commodore 64 on mine.

moonpurple · 13-03-2010 09:22PM

an xt
then a 286

SEPT 23 1989 · 13-03-2010 09:24PM

commador 64

remember all the boxes when you opened it

****ing tapes ha ha

but was there a commador 128??

El Weirdo · 13-03-2010 09:26PM

Vic 20?

AARRRRGH · 13-03-2010 09:27PM

mudokon wrote: »

That was my first computer too, had the memory expansion though which took it up to a whopping 16k. :cool:

Classic gaming like this was available back then. :pac:
http://www.retrogamingtimes.com/rtm65/pioneertrail.jpg

Remember the ram pack wobble.

El Weirdo · 13-03-2010 09:29PM

Me mate had one of these.

rainbow kirby · 13-03-2010 09:31PM

Sinclair Spectrum 128k, I got it third-hand for my 7th birthday from my uncle and it was already older than me at that stage.

tallus · 13-03-2010 09:31PM

My first computer was one of these

El Siglo · 13-03-2010 09:36PM

My first computer was one of these...:rolleyes:
Then we got a normal pc in 1999, fairly standard for the time, 4GB hard drive, 32mb ram with Windows 98.

bonerm · 13-03-2010 09:38PM

Commodore 64.

This was my first game .....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5yHcoudVJY

Yes, things could only get better.

byte · 13-03-2010 09:39PM

Atari 400.

El Weirdo · 13-03-2010 09:42PM

Amiga 500 then... Played a lot of this game.

Dudess · 13-03-2010 09:45PM

Sinclear Spectrum (well it wasn't mine but it was in the house) - about 1985. Oh the deafening noise of the tape game thingies loading... on a portable cassette player, which was hooked up to a black and white portable TV.

gandalf · 13-03-2010 09:50PM

Speccy 48k here as well until I bought my first PC. It was a 386sx 16mhz I think it had 2mb of RAM and a 40mb hdd LOL. It cost an absolute fortune.

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