I had a 16K Spectrum and an Amstrad CPC464 .

compared to today it was so so fast lol NOT.

I found my Amstrad under the stairs at my old girls house. And it still worked lol

 

my first was the toshiba msx, games loaded via a tapedeck that if i was lucky i could start one loading before dinner and by the time i'd finished it might have loaded up but more often than not it crashed!!
had it for years but moved on to a nintendo 64 so it made the msx redundent, i then got a c64 i think with the terminator pack but got bored so got rid of it then concentrated on gaming consoles by nintendo until i brought my first house at 22 when i also brought a apple cube because i needed a small computer due to lack of space. had that for a few years then brought the 1.6ghz g5 which i've still got but i'm now looking at getting a 21.5"imac.

 

I had an Amiga 500 then I later upgraded to some stunningly fast 486 pc with 256mb ram and a 650mb hard drive

 

ZX81. My old man pulled them apart, made it into 4k and added a new keyboard. I used to love him programming them, then me playing (and subsequently removing) the games. Good times!



Then Atari 2600, Spectrum 48k, C64, (always loved Amiga 500 & Atari ST, but never owned), then went onto consoles, with Sega Master System, Megadrive, SNES, PS1, Panasonic 3DO, PS2, Dreamcast, Xbox, Wii, Xbox 360.

 

mine was the acorn electron was the dogs back in the day however mine used to take the **** when loading games then my dad got me a master system and thats when the fun began

 

Commodore 64 and was before ZX Spectrum as well,after ATARI 800...
Great 8-bit times

 

Another CPC464 owner here. Oh how I loved copying games in my hifis twin tape deck - those were the days

 

Haha reminds me of a funny story where my old man bought a CPC464 mag which include the code to write your own game (Da Bells). Me and my old man spent an entire weekend typing and troubleshooting the code (many typos). Only to find that they gave you a free tape of the full game in the next mag

 

god yeah!! that takes me back..i remember typing for fookin hours only to find it didnt even work or as you said you got the game in the next mag..

 

Does anyone remember a radio programme which played the code to be recorded on tape and loaded onto zx81 etc.? I vaguely do, and cannot remember it working!

 

ZX81 here!!!

The latter "Firebird" Hi-res games were technically mind blowing when they came out for this. You couldn't beat the galaxian's clone though with "v"'s as the alien ships! lol

Myles,
Yes I remember that!

 

Suppose a TI58 programmable calculator doesn't count

First proper computer was a BBC Model B purchased in 1983.

 

Dragon 32 for me

 

I remember spending hours nicking software programmes from work using 5.25 floppies, half of which corrupted in a few weeks. Must have been on to a 286 with yellow writing on screen.

When I started working at home in 1990 I bought a Compaq laptop for £3000 and an HP Printer for £1200 - now £25 on e-bay

I showed my son an old floppy to show him how things had changed

dl

 

I don't think that your Son would appreciate that, if not bounding upon being slightly illegal

Oh jokes about 3.5" and 5.25" floppies and hard drives ...

 

How many times did you hear (toward a 3.5" disk) "but its not floppy so does that make it a hard disk"?

Mmmm I upgraded the ram in my 486 dx2 50 to go to uni from a whopping 4 up to 8mb! Cost me nigh on £200 if my memory serves me right. Made **** all difference either

 

What about 2 games on one side of a tape - you had to reset your tape counter and fast forward to a certain point before loading

 

i had a c64 followed by a BBC model B and C=Amiga 500

 

Vic 20
CBM C64
CBM +4
CBM C128
Amiga 2000
Now i7-870 @ 4 GHz

Quite a journey !

dunx

 

Jesus, they were fooking expensive at that time....

 

Tres Drole

 

Commodore 64. i would load up a game before school, then either come home to play it or find syntax error

 

Commodore VIC 20 with memory addon
Amstrad
Zx Spectrum
Commodore 64
Commodore Amiga
Time pc

Then there after I built my pc's

 

Was an Atari can't remember which one i was too young,but remember it being made partly of wood lol..After that had commodore 64,spectrum,and so on.

 

that was more than likely an atari 2600 sort of games console with "bat and ball " game lol i had (and still got ) a VECTREX .....if anyone can remember those!!!

 

wow !! you got a good memory (unlike the computer you had) yeah i remeber doing that

 

BBC B - pricey, but the mutts nuts (in those days)

 

Im glad someone remembers it, I thought I was going mad!

 

It probably was,i remember the bat and ball game,plus the army tank game..

 

Atari "woody", i think i have 2 or 3 in the garage somewhere

Who can remember the Amstrad floppy drive using double sided 3" discs




Mart