1st Computer
- Started 21 years ago
- Last post 21 years ago
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- ********0
ZX81 with a whopping 1k of RAM.
Bitch was that none of my tape machines would ever lod in the 1k cassette games, so all I could do was learn the BASIC, then some machine code and triumphantly teach myself how to make a playable game in 1k, which worked out at just under a screen of code..
Things like 'Inverse X skiiing' - Steer the Inverse X between the rows of semi-colons.
If you reach the end of the course, you get error message 9, if you crash, get error 9.
That was hardcore coding.I later got a TI-99/4a, again with no games.
Now I had sound, color, pixel-defined graphics and 16k.
Just wasnt the same.
- JamesEngage0
vic20
just bought one in fact coz i sold my original one when i was 10 or so... D'oh!
Order of machines I have bought (or my folks bought me) (had various work machines in between)
vic20
amstrad464
comodore64
Amiga 500
Amiga 600
Apple PowerPC 6200
Dell Perspiron orsomething or other
Powerbook G4
- Bluejam0
BBC B
- mijlee0
Sinclair Spectrum 48k
Atari 520ST
Power Mac G3 Desktop 233
PowerBook G4 400...The future? who knows but probably a G5 iMac.
- smellvetica0
ZX Spectrum +
- glenroy0
commodore vic20 with tape drive. spent all saturday morning trying to program my first game, copying out of a book.
- smellvetica0
ah in order.
ZX Spectrum +
(bought with 6 months worth of paper round cash 2nd hand)ZX Spectrum 128k + (faulty)
ZX Specturm +2
Amiga 500 (got nicked)
G3 266Mhz beige mac
G3 450Mhz imac
G3 500Mhz ibook
G5 (finally power!)
got given an Atari ST and Amiga 600 recently.
- ********0
i rocked out on the Atari 800, but the C64 was the original piece of hardware to break into Pentagon with...original battle posts and secret wars and the telepathic ability to blow up lesser modems like scanners, bitch
- mijlee0
those were the days. I remember copying code from a book to make a shoot the duck game on my 48k Spectrum. What a bloody waste of time ;)
- hiphoprelic0
I still have my first computer.
Comodore 64
I think I'll try to hook it up tonight and see if it still works.
Still have games and paint proggie.
EA - Dr J vs. Larry Bird
Sweet!
- stylepimp0
hehe nice thread :)
my first: commodore C 64 - but I've just been gaming with that one. on data set-tapes. copy in your stereo *g*
then, in my fist agency, we had some PC - but I wasn't allowed to touch it.
and finally my first professional one: mac IIci - which is still running as our ISDN-leonardo-server! unbelievable, hu? wonder when he quits ...
(now on a dual G5)
- kodap0
bunch of geeks in here
- ********0
- enjine0
packard bell 486 SX...
what was that, like 22 Mhz??ahh the good old days
- jpea0
trs80, the my dad had a mac plus (which he used till about 2 years ago!), then quadra 610 i think, then BWG3, then mostly pc after that
that trs80 absolutely sucked.. big ol' 8 inch floppy disks
- chall50
First computer I ever used was a Commodore PET. First computer I ever owned was an Acorn Electron (cut down BBC B)
A friend of mine's Dad worked for the company who made the coin slots for arcade machines and he had a Galaga tabletop machine in his house that you put the 10p in to and it came out of the coin reject slot AND YOU STILL GOT A GAME !
I thought that was the coolest thing ever
- ricstultz0
Nothin beat the IIgs.... all those bad ass Kings Quest and Leisure Suit Larry games.... i loved those Sierra adventures as a kid.
- danthon0
commodore 64/128
load "",8,1
run
- 2cent0
PowerPC 6500 - 225mhz
3gb HD
128mb RAMahh yeah... cost me 3g's too!
I did however have the pleasure of rocking an LCII in college.