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[size=12]1989
Amstrad 1640
Twin 5.25 Floppy Disk Drives
No Hard Drive
14" Black and White Monitor
DMP4000 Printer.
All for the grand total of £999[/size]
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Some amstrad thing... cant remember the details!
Prior to that paper and pen! ;)
£999? Fancy for 89 you show off!! ;D ;D
in about 1986 ish ish
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I don't remember the model. Some Mac 2e or something, slim little white thing with separate monitor - 1993.
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My parents had and AST Advantage in about 1990 with windows 3.1 or something and a HP printer and it was over a grand!
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Commodore Amiga 500
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My first was in 1980, I bought a faulty SC80 and fixed it. It was designed by a chap called John Adams. Got as far as adding disk drives to it. It had an on-board math co-processor, clever stuff, and you could program it in BURP (Basic Using Reverse Polish). I then built another of his designs, the SC84 in 1984. This ran a version of CP/M, great fun.
Ken
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commodore c-16.... :-[....then it broke then commodore lost it during repair and gave me a c-64 :) as a replacement then sent me my repaired c-16 foc :) which i sold in the local paper along with the c-64 and bought an amiga a500...... 8-) 8-)
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The good old days eh!! . . . . mmmm, in some cases maybe not. Hope I never see an Amstrad again.
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ZX-81 with the 16k ram pack
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ZX-81 also -- with the membrane keyboard -- then graduated to a Commodore C-64. Once I was hooked got me an Amiga 500 --- THAT was the real deal !!!!!! FDD an' all ;)
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Upgraded to speccy 48+ with interface 1 and microdrive, I was posh. ;D
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1st 'real' computer - Amstrad PCW8256 like http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Amstrad-PCW-8512-DD-Monitor_W0QQitemZ300199087407QQcmdZViewItem
previous 'games machines'
Spectrum 128k+ http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Sinclair-ZX-Spectrum-128-2A-with-tons-of-games_W0QQitemZ220255085052QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item220255085052
Spectrum 48 http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SINCLAIR-ZX-SPECTRUM-48-COMPUTER-CABLES-AC-ADAPTER_W0QQitemZ160258316407QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item160258316407
Binatone TV Master bit like http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/VINTAGE-BOXED-BINATONE-TV-MASTER-MK-1V-MODEL-01-4974_W0QQitemZ180262070670QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item180262070670&_trksid=p3286.m14.l1318
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Zx Spectrum 48k rubber key model with tape player for loading horrace goes skiing :D
dad had built a ZX81 before this so it was a big step up ;)
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Binatone TV Master bit like http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/VINTAGE-BOXED-BINATONE-TV-MASTER-MK-1V-MODEL-01-4974_W0QQitemZ180262070670QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item180262070670&_trksid=p3286.m14.l1318
Bugga I had something similar to that as well, just 1 game I think.
Just found a 2600
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Atari-2600-Console-c-w-games_W0QQitemZ170236422287QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item170236422287&_trksid=p4295.m14.l1318
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and my mate up the road had a Dragon32k??? wtf was that? never seen or heard of one since :-?
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ZX-81 with the 16k ram pack
same here :y
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and my mate up the road had a Dragon32k??? wtf was that? never seen or heard of one since :-?
My cousin had one, a british built computer that soon went bankcrupt!
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Binatone TV Master bit like http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/VINTAGE-BOXED-BINATONE-TV-MASTER-MK-1V-MODEL-01-4974_W0QQitemZ180262070670QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item180262070670&_trksid=p3286.m14.l1318
Bugga I had something similar to that as well, just 1 game I think.
Just found a 2600
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Atari-2600-Console-c-w-games_W0QQitemZ170236422287QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item170236422287&_trksid=p4295.m14.l1318
Tennis.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_gZ3eCFnaE&feature=related
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Binatone TV Master bit like http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/VINTAGE-BOXED-BINATONE-TV-MASTER-MK-1V-MODEL-01-4974_W0QQitemZ180262070670QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item180262070670&_trksid=p3286.m14.l1318
Bugga I had something similar to that as well, just 1 game I think.
Just found a 2600
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Atari-2600-Console-c-w-games_W0QQitemZ170236422287QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item170236422287&_trksid=p4295.m14.l1318
Tennis.
New Ball's.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_gZ3eCFnaE&feature=related
SORRY!! Wrong place... wrong site :-[ :-[ :-[
Meant to be on MSN!! ::)
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1986 .It was an amstrad [ don't recall the model].
Cost about £700 with a black and white screen.
I seem to remember the operating system was at extra cost.
It did not have gigabytes,or i think megabytes. It had kilobytes.
What did it do?.F##k all as far as i can remember. :y :y :y :y :y
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_gZ3eCFnaE&feature=related
Wurzel that yer 1st computer.? ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_gZ3eCFnaE&feature=related
Wurzel that yer 1st computer.? ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
i am a country lad !! So Ahh!! :y
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Suppose my 1st 'IBM compatible pc'
was the one i got after school to use at college
a 386 DX 40, 2 mb ram, 40mb hard drive
Was the envy of most the course in those days.
Upgraded the 2 mb of ram (in 256k sims) to 5mb and ran Windows 3.1 it absolutley flew in comparison to most of the day.
You'll remember the DX were good because they had the built in math coprocessor
had a 1mb video card, cutting edge stuff
it could run 800*600 at 16.7 million colours (just)
Happy Days!!!
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the good old speccy 128k. favourite game was manic miner. used to take 15 mins to load off the tape, played it for hours. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Sad to admit, but as I am sorting to move home I found some old bitz and pieces. Free to a good home if anyone wants to upgrade.
Bundle of 256k simms
10 MB MFM drive and daisy chain cables.
2 x Boxes of Brand new 180 TPI DSDD 8" Floppy Disks
2 5.25 Floppy drives
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a 386 Maths co processor.
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Sad to admit, but as I am sorting to move home I found some old bitz and pieces. Free to a good home if anyone wants to upgrade.
Bundle of 256k simms
10 MB MFM drive and daisy chain cables.
2 x Boxes of Brand new 180 TPI DSDD 8" Floppy Disks
2 5.25 Floppy drives
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a 386 Maths co processor.
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
That will do for my wedding aniversary pressy for the wife! :y
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Oh blimey! A ZX81
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i remember manic miner ;D ;D also daley thompsons challenge and commando!!!! and rambo first blood pt 2....Happy days spent playing the games into the wee hours of the morning then getting up an going to skool.... ;D ;D
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Spectrum 48K+. I loved playing Manic Miner, Halls of the Things, Attic Attack etc. Arrrh the memories ::) :)
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What amstrad was it that horris goes skiing was on??
He was cool that little blob!! Had hours of fun. even if it did take 10 hours to load with that ear deafening sound and stupid lines on the screen ;D
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i remember manic miner ;D ;D also daley thompsons challenge and commando!!!! and rambo first blood pt 2....Happy days spent playing the games into the wee hours of the morning then getting up an going to skool.... ;D ;D
Here you go Bertie a touch of nostalgia for you.
clicky (http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekplay.cgi?title=Manic+Miner&pub=Bug%2dByte+Software+Ltd&year=1983&id=0003012&game=/games/m/ManicMiner.tzx.zip&emu=3&aspect=3)
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My favourite was that old classic Frogger -- the faster it got the higher my BP went !!! It's still not come down !!!!!!
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First computer spectrum and commodore64 whitch i still have
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First computer spectrum and commodore64 whitch i still have
Should be on Antiques Roadshow soon -- I wonder how many have survived !
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My first computer if ya can call it that was (I think) an amstrad 9516 or something. It was just a basis word processor really lol. Then upgraded to a 386.., its baaaaad when u can remember using Windows operating systems by numbers rather than a fancy name lol.
I DO remember the 386 was male tho.. couldn't handle multi- tasking. Was doing something where I needed to keep my 90 page dissertation open, use excel and have other word applications open and it tried to commit suicide several times (died on me several times). Mind u, like males.., it didn't have much of a brain or memory :P :P
Me goes and hides now.
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My first computer if ya can call it that was (I think) an amstrad 9516 or something. It was just a basis word processor really lol. Then upgraded to a 386.., its baaaaad when u can remember using Windows operating systems by numbers rather than a fancy name lol.
I DO remember the 386 was male tho.. couldn't handle multi- tasking. Was doing something where I needed to keep my 90 page dissertation open, use excel and have other word applications open and it tried to commit suicide several times (died on me several times). Mind u, like males.., it didn't have much of a brain or memory :P :P
Me goes and hides now.
Did it have a joystick ::)
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My first computer if ya can call it that was (I think) an amstrad 9516 or something. It was just a basis word processor really lol. Then upgraded to a 386.., its baaaaad when u can remember using Windows operating systems by numbers rather than a fancy name lol.
I DO remember the 386 was male tho.. couldn't handle multi- tasking. Was doing something where I needed to keep my 90 page dissertation open, use excel and have other word applications open and it tried to commit suicide several times (died on me several times). Mind u, like males.., it didn't have much of a brain or memory :P :P
Me goes and hides now.
I used to dream of an Amstrad 9512!
my 386 was better than your 386 though ;D
386 being the processor not operating system though ;)
(went 8086, 286, 386, 486, Pentium......)
Would have been windows 3.0 or 3.1
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Vic20
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Commodore Amiga 500
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No HolyCount, I had no need of a joystick in those days :P :P
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16k Spectrum. Not many had them.
First proper PC was Amstrad 2086.
Had zx-81, Amiga 500 (still got), QLs (still got), Spectrum+ (still got), BBCs (still got), and bucket loads of PCs with 8086, 286, 386DX, 386SX, 486DX, 486SX, 486SLC, Pentium, Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III, Pentium IV, Core2 Duo, Core2 Quad, Athlon XP (now there's a really shit cpu). And probably loads more I've forgotten.
With PCs, had most formats - AT desktop, AT tower, AT midi tower, most forms of ATX, large portables, smaller portables, laptops, notebooks, ultra lights, servers.
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Hmm. First computer I actually used was a VAX 11/750 IIRC when I got a summer job where my Dad was working. Shortly followed by a PET4008 which the school acquired. I borrowed a number of Apple 2 derivitives at various times, and got my hands on an Apple Lisa for a while when they first emerged.
My first machine I could call my own was a 48K Spectrum which was eventually replaced by a BBC micro. Not that powerful but you could do so much with one of those! Mine got expanded with bits of wire-wrap board hanging off it until it needed a coling fan to keep cool. That took me right up to the PC era which is where the story gets a bit boring IMHO.
I remember getting my hands on a few RM 380z and 480zs at school. We had a network of them long before security was invented and we used to cause havoc in any IT lessons by taking over innocent classmates machines and putting them to use disrupting the class!
Other machines I came into contact with? I remember a mate of mine having a Dragon32 which was a nice machine, underrated IMHO. Crap colour display though. A mate of mine's dad used to work for DEC and he rescued a PDP11 and a PDP8 out of the skip. I remember playing the snake game on one of them. About all they were capable of despite the size of them.
I still have my BBC micro somewhere. It still works, too! More than can be said for my poor old spectrum. :'(
Kevin
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About 12 years ago I borrowed a COmpaq 286 luggable and wrote software at home on it
3 minutes to link an executable
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Hmm. First computer I actually used was a VAX 11/750 IIRC when I got a summer job where my Dad was working. Shortly followed by a PET4008 which the school acquired. I borrowed a number of Apple 2 derivitives at various times, and got my hands on an Apple Lisa for a while when they first emerged.
My first machine I could call my own was a 48K Spectrum which was eventually replaced by a BBC micro. Not that powerful but you could do so much with one of those! Mine got expanded with bits of wire-wrap board hanging off it until it needed a coling fan to keep cool. That took me right up to the PC era which is where the story gets a bit boring IMHO.
I remember getting my hands on a few RM 380z and 480zs at school. We had a network of them long before security was invented and we used to cause havoc in any IT lessons by taking over innocent classmates machines and putting them to use disrupting the class!
Other machines I came into contact with? I remember a mate of mine having a Dragon32 which was a nice machine, underrated IMHO. Crap colour display though. A mate of mine's dad used to work for DEC and he rescued a PDP11 and a PDP8 out of the skip. I remember playing the snake game on one of them. About all they were capable of despite the size of them.
I still have my BBC micro somewhere. It still works, too! More than can be said for my poor old spectrum. :'(
Kevin
480zs had a feature whereby you could remotely take control. Not that I was ever that disruptive ::)
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16k Spectrum. Not many had them.
First proper PC was Amstrad 2086.
Had zx-81, Amiga 500 (still got), QLs (still got), Spectrum+ (still got), BBCs (still got), and bucket loads of PCs with 8086, 286, 386DX, 386SX, 486DX, 486SX, 486SLC, Pentium, Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III, Pentium IV, Core2 Duo, Core2 Quad, Athlon XP (now there's a really naff cpu). And probably loads more I've forgotten.
With PCs, had most formats - AT desktop, AT tower, AT midi tower, most forms of ATX, large portables, smaller portables, laptops, notebooks, ultra lights, servers.
you leave me and my little XP powered K7S5A alone ;)
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Hmm. First computer I actually used was a VAX 11/750 IIRC when I got a summer job where my Dad was working. Shortly followed by a PET4008 which the school acquired. I borrowed a number of Apple 2 derivitives at various times, and got my hands on an Apple Lisa for a while when they first emerged.
My first machine I could call my own was a 48K Spectrum which was eventually replaced by a BBC micro. Not that powerful but you could do so much with one of those! Mine got expanded with bits of wire-wrap board hanging off it until it needed a coling fan to keep cool. That took me right up to the PC era which is where the story gets a bit boring IMHO.
I remember getting my hands on a few RM 380z and 480zs at school. We had a network of them long before security was invented and we used to cause havoc in any IT lessons by taking over innocent classmates machines and putting them to use disrupting the class!
Other machines I came into contact with? I remember a mate of mine having a Dragon32 which was a nice machine, underrated IMHO. Crap colour display though. A mate of mine's dad used to work for DEC and he rescued a PDP11 and a PDP8 out of the skip. I remember playing the snake game on one of them. About all they were capable of despite the size of them.
I still have my BBC micro somewhere. It still works, too! More than can be said for my poor old spectrum. :'(
Kevin
480zs had a feature whereby you could remotely take control. Not that I was ever that disruptive ::)
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Oh, yes. A network of them was well and truly owned by anyone who didn't spend their break times playing footie.
My favourite was a virus for the BBC that I wrote, which copied itself into a sideways RAM image (battery backed) and reprogrammed the video chip to invert the screen after 255 keypresses.
Then I reversed the Vertical deflection coils in the monitor so the picture went upside down when they removed the "infection". ;D
Happy days.
Kevin
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me mate just textd me and hes gone an found his amiga outa the loft it still works!!!!! mind ya he hoards things like that just in case he says...
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ZX-81 with the 16k ram pack
Snap :y
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ZX-81 with the 16k ram pack
Snap :y
Ahh, yes. Spend all evening typing in some code from a magazine, then sneeze, move the RAM pack slightly and start again...
Kevin
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Commodore 128 with a fast ! tape drive ;D
Then 286, 386 - 40 , pentium and so on.. :)
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Started with a ZX80 kit here. Owned all of the Sinclairs including a QL
+. Had Vic20, C64 then onto the awesome Amiga! I still have an Amiga CD32 in the garage, my kids think I'm nuts when I start explaining how it was the first true 32 bit games console.(I'll sell this if there are any collectors out there)
Used some of the less popular home computers including the Dragon, Oric 1, Atmos and the really old TRS stuff!
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God brings back memories ::),
I had a Commodore PC 20, with a 20MB hard drive, god it was massive for the time, with a power house 8088 processor with 3 different clock speeds 4.44, 7.2 or 9 MHz and CGA graphics (3 colours).
What a revelation when I seen another computer with EGA (16 colours), then VGA(256 colours) and SVGA (16.7million) graphics. Cost £1000 in 1989. :o
http://www.zimmers.net/cbmpics/cpcs.html
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My first HDD for PC was 30Mb. "I'll never fill all that up" (baring in mind I used to load Windows from floppy ;D
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i bought a time machine in 2001, still got it noiw and its never gone wrong, its my jukebox as its just got music on now. upgraded to xp when that came out and its a very reliable pc :y :y :y
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First computer used was a burroughs B6900, 32mb ram , was about the size of 12 double wardrobes!
Got my first in 1984, a spectravideo, which I upgraded to a massive 64k ram and ran MSX.
God I feel old :-[
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My first HDD for PC was 30Mb. "I'll never fill all that up" (baring in mind I used to load Windows from floppy ;D
I remember that thought. I went through a phase recently of building machine just to be able to add hard drive storage (when drives were approaching 200GB) I built myself a sserver with a 40GB boot Drive, 160GB working drive and 4 x 180GB server drives.
Then I started adding the USB 2 Caddys with 300 GB drives in, Now iI progressed to NAS, only using 2 x 500GB at the mo, but cn add 2 x USB to it as well.
Next move is onto TB drives and get rid of all the old gear.
All that from wondering if I would ever fill 30MB ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Wonder how much space I will need when I find a decent utility that actually works for saving Youtube clips. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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First computer used was a burroughs B6900, 32mb ram , was about the size of 12 double wardrobes!
Got my first in 1984, a spectravideo, which I upgraded to a massive 64k ram and ran MSX.
God I feel old :-[
Bloody hell, forgotten all about MSX ;D. Another Microsoft initiative to rule the (enthusiast) world... ...shame only compatible at the source code level.
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First computer used was a burroughs B6900, 32mb ram , was about the size of 12 double wardrobes!
Got my first in 1984, a spectravideo, which I upgraded to a massive 64k ram and ran MSX.
God I feel old :-[
Apart from working on just about every make and model of PC since 1989 the first big machines I worked on where the Unisys A series mainframes, A5's and A10's... Remember the A10H comprised of two processer units, two memory cabinets and the boot microcode was on a shared disk pack! Moved on to various Unix boxes - Altos, NCR, Convergent Tech then finally on to Sun Sparcservers.
I feel old too!!!
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First one was a Commodore PET. I think it had 16K of RAM. Input programs by typing in lines of code from a magazine...i cannot remember the name of the mag...and then saving it to cassette. Big problem if you typed a colon instead of a semicolon. :(
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zx spectrum (rubber keys) 48k. We paid the premium to have the extra memory!!!!
Saying that now sounds poncey as hell, but in 1984-5 it was true ;D.
Played "chuckie egg" and "elite" to death.
Still remember the nights at mates homes trying to copy tape to tape with a 5pin din lead. 3/4 of the way through it would always stop >:(
I remember buying C15 blank tapes in bulk
1st proper pc was £1300 out of currys (1993) with a 1gb hard drive. People used to faint when they heard a 1gb hard drive. Nowadays my phone's got 8 times the memory
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I was more into programming on my ZX Rectum, rather than games. Indeed I learnt assembler on it.
Still enjoyed Manic Miner, then Jetset Willy once I'd got a 32k Rampack for my 16k model....
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first my a TI-99 with speech module, all games and programs were cartridges so no loading time! :y
followed by a BBC Master with dual floppy drives, separate keyboard and some ibm processor inside it.
Then a 286 with 4mb of ram and a 40MB HDD :o :o
Wasnt until I got a 386 that windows 3.1 came along ::)
I feel old! ;D ;D ;D ;D
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My first HDD for PC was 30Mb. "I'll never fill all that up" (baring in mind I used to load Windows from floppy ;D
First time I came across Windows, loaded it up - rubbish - deleted it all to get more disc space.
It was really pants and no Deskview (or whatever)
Came across concurrent DOS not long after
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C64 - still got 2 in working order!
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First computer used was a burroughs B6900, 32mb ram , was about the size of 12 double wardrobes!
Got my first in 1984, a spectravideo, which I upgraded to a massive 64k ram and ran MSX.
God I feel old :-[
Yup, definitely, you are old if you used one of those. :)
I started programming on an NCR315 - 20K 12-bit words. Filled an entire room. Very advanced for 1967.
My first computer at home was a BBC B in 1982 - wrote a complete business system on that. Could never save up enough to buy discs for it, though, probably because my second child arrived the same week as the computer.
Still got both of them. :)
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Built a ZX80 from the kit, swapped the measly 1K ram chip for a mega 2K one!! ;D
Then built a ZX81 from kit, and bought an original 16K rampack, almost the size of the computer!!!
Spectrum 48K, followed by a QL.... (bit of a sinclair freak..also had a 'black watch' (anyone remember them!)
Atari 520STE, before aquiring a 286Dx machine (real luxury ;D ;D)
Still have all the sincleair machines, and they all still work, (except the microdrive tapes)
AAHHHHHH.... the memories... :) :) :)