What was your first computer ?

A BBC Micro, with 32K of memory and cassette. After a while I added a floppy drive; the chipset came as about 10 chips which had to be plugged into the motherboard without bending the pins. The great thing about having so little memory is it taught you to write compact code.

First steps into programming was a ICL mainframe. At the time Glasgow Uni didn’t have there own and timeshared the one at Newcastle. I think I’d scream if I ever had to use cards again :).

Twin hamster wheels?

We used to dream of twin hamster wheels….. 😮

Or is it the wooden box with a keyboard powered by twin hamster wheels?

always get those mixed up

No Sandy, that would be a RR powered 757. 😀

I do, I do…… 🙂

An ICL 2600 mainframe….beat that! :p

Texas Instruments ‘Speak and Spell’.

Consider yourself beaten. 😀

Mine was an AMD 386, 4 MB memory and – hold onto your seats- a 387 co-processor. That was needed for Falcon 3.0 Hi Fidelity Mode 😀

An ICL 2600 mainframe….beat that! :p

OK, it wasn’t exactly mine, but it was the first computer I was ever responsible for…..

Thats one of those things powered by coal right?
Or is it the wooden box with a keyboard powered by twin hamster wheels?

always get those mixed up

An ICL 2600 mainframe….beat that! :p

OK, it wasn’t exactly mine, but it was the first computer I was ever responsible for…..

We had a Sinclair Spectrum when I was but a nipper.

http://www.ntrautanen.fi/computers/other/images/sinclair_spectrum.jpg

I can remeber my dad frantically pressing the space bar to make a longer jumper run faster in some sort of “Olympics” game.

My first “PC” Was a 486 with a floppy disk drive (yup the big ones) and a mega 100mb hard drive 😀

I started off with a Commodore Vic-20, with the cassette player that you had to plug in at the back. I have no idea what happened to it, must have been about twenty years ago that I got that, and there have been some house moves (and clear outs!) since then. After that I didn’t actually own a computer at all until about three years ago, when I bought my desktop. Also now have a Toshiba Tecra 9100 at home, and this thing here at work is an HP Compaq NC4010. Don’t ask me about specs, I haven’t got a clue!

I remember the Vic-20 and the ‘datasete’ the you mention! The Vic-20 was the little brother to Commodore’s 64, which was my first computer. Just like the rest of you, all I did was play games on it. I had the 5 1/4 inch ‘external’ disk drive for it, which was sold separately. Man, that thing was huge! Games took like 5 minutes to load from the drive. I still remember the prompt you had to type in order to load the games: LOAD”*”,8,1 LOL. Those were classic! There were some really good games for that system. The first ‘real’ computer I had was a 186, followed by a 386 with windows 3.1, followed by a pentium 133 with windows 95, followed by a pentium II 200 with windows 98, to my current pair of Dell’s, one at home and one at work. I actually still have a pentium 150 laptop that still runs. Can’t do much with it, though.

I started off with a Commodore Vic-20, with the cassette player that you had to plug in at the back. I have no idea what happened to it, must have been about twenty years ago that I got that, and there have been some house moves (and clear outs!) since then. After that I didn’t actually own a computer at all until about three years ago, when I bought my desktop. Also now have a Toshiba Tecra 9100 at home, and this thing here at work is an HP Compaq NC4010. Don’t ask me about specs, I haven’t got a clue!

now i have my current PS2 which is porobably the best console ever :dev2: 😉 😀 😎

“Mercenaries” kicks ass! 😉

I can’t remember the exact specs etc about our first PC but all i care about is i have my current one 😎

The first game console i got was a “Master System” 😀 playing Sonic ahh they were the days lol but now i have my current PS2 which is porobably the best console ever :dev2: 😉 😀 😎

Yes, like many I had an Atari ST but used it for creating music rather than gaming, taking advantage of the built in MIDI ports. When I look down at my nice compact, and powerful 17″ HP laptop, it does amaze me how far things have come over the past 15 years!

A couple of days ago I got a CD-ROM featuring just about every game produced for the ZX Spectrum and have spent hours playing them! For anyone who had a Spec and misses some of those early classic games, I cannot recommend this CD-ROM enough! It was so good to play Atic Atac, Manic Miner, Jet Set Willy etc all over again 😀