What was your first computer?
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- ZX80 (surprised no-one else started on these 'yoghurt pot plastic' white boxes that you seriously had to put a milk carton to one side of the hump to stop them overheating)
- ZX81
- ZX Spectrum 16K / 48K
- Commodore 64 (with tape deck and 1541 disk drive - possibly the slowest floppy drive on the planet).
- PCs (starting with a 386SX I think, and many, many since).
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- ZX81
- ZX Spectrum 16K / 48K
- Commodore 64 (with tape deck and 1541 disk drive - possibly the slowest floppy drive on the planet).
- PCs (starting with a 386SX I think, and many, many since).
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Parents bought an Atari 2600 when they came out so that was the first 'console' I ever used. Then first computer I ever laid eyes upon was a zx81 at primary school. Then got a zx spectrum 48k at home and spent a vast amount of time playing beach head before my parents changed it for a zx spectrum 128k. Then at 14 did 4 weeks work experience at £100 a week during the Summer holidays and spent the entire £400 on my Amiga 500 which I still have 23 years on. The first big item I ever worked for/saved up for.
First pc I ever used was a 386 at a mates house, was his Dad's and cost well over £2k
My first pc was a 486 dx2 66 which I later upgraded to a dx4 100 and went from 2mb of ram to 4mb of ram. Started off on win 3.11 then Windows 95 came out and changed everything.
First pc I ever used was a 386 at a mates house, was his Dad's and cost well over £2k
My first pc was a 486 dx2 66 which I later upgraded to a dx4 100 and went from 2mb of ram to 4mb of ram. Started off on win 3.11 then Windows 95 came out and changed everything.
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Damn i would love to own one these computers again just to have a blast.I still got my fire fox grandstand,megadrive master system etc..I remember being with my mates playing paperboy,california games,cobra on the spectrum..Great laughs...
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I started out with a BBC B Micro, still got it somewhere. Moved on to the Amiga A500 some years later, then an A500+, Amiga 1200. Still got all those I think too. Then I got my first PC which was a 486. Was never alowed a console as my parents thought they were too expensive and all they did was play games. They finally changed their minds when the Playstation came out and I got one for Xmas in 1995.
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ZX81
ZX81 with 16mb mem addon
spectrum 16k rubber keybord
Spectrum 48k proper keybord
Commodore 64 with Diskdrive
Commodore Amiga 500
Atari 130 XE
Atari 512ST
First actual PC was a dell 425 SX for Xwing
Moved through pcs and now have
Main PC is Core I7 clocked to 3.8 12 gig ram 2000mghz SSD drives ATI 5870
laptops are Core I7 dell precision m6500 8 gig ram
Asus G73 core I7 8 gig ram, ATI 5870 Mobile
ZX81 with 16mb mem addon
spectrum 16k rubber keybord
Spectrum 48k proper keybord
Commodore 64 with Diskdrive
Commodore Amiga 500
Atari 130 XE
Atari 512ST
First actual PC was a dell 425 SX for Xwing
Moved through pcs and now have
Main PC is Core I7 clocked to 3.8 12 gig ram 2000mghz SSD drives ATI 5870
laptops are Core I7 dell precision m6500 8 gig ram
Asus G73 core I7 8 gig ram, ATI 5870 Mobile
Software house I was with was called Choice
They subcontracted mainly, but did design their own game which I worked on, but it was the biggest pile of shyte ever and cost them a small fortune to produce.
I mainly wrote for (through Choice)
Ocean
Codemasters
US Gold
When the local company decided to shut up shop I did get offered a job in the states, but back then I was still a bit green behind the ears and afraid to move to the USA.
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Perhaps not truly a computer but started with an Atari 2600 console one Christmas which we loved - Space Invaders, Adventure, Pac-Man, Skydiver, Bowling, Night Driver, and may other great games I can't remember. Then got:
ZX Spectrum 48k (rubber keyboard job)
Commodore 64
Commodore Amiga A500 (with 1Mb memory expansion and second floppy)
Several PCs after that and quite a few consoles....
ZX Spectrum 48k (rubber keyboard job)
Commodore 64
Commodore Amiga A500 (with 1Mb memory expansion and second floppy)
Several PCs after that and quite a few consoles....
Had a:
Sinclair QL
Atari 520
Atari 1040ST
Atari Falcon
486DX
Pentium PC of some sort
iMac
Macbooks
PC's
Remember the old Atari vs. Amiga wars and how the Amiga was better supported with games like Sensible soccer etc.
Them's were the days lol
Sinclair QL
Atari 520
Atari 1040ST
Atari Falcon
486DX
Pentium PC of some sort
iMac
Macbooks
PC's
Remember the old Atari vs. Amiga wars and how the Amiga was better supported with games like Sensible soccer etc.
Them's were the days lol
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