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[waspy]

Spectrum 48K+. I loved playing Manic Miner, Halls of the Things, Attic Attack etc. Arrrh the memories  

[psychnurse]

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  

[CaptainZok]

i remember manic miner   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....

Here you go Bertie a touch of nostalgia for you.
clicky

[HolyCount]

My favourite was that old classic Frogger -- the faster it got the higher my BP went !!!  It's still not come down !!!!!!

[70spider]

First computer spectrum and commodore64 whitch i still have

[HolyCount]

First computer spectrum and commodore64 whitch i still have

Should be on Antiques Roadshow soon -- I wonder how many have survived !

[SWMBO]

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

Me goes and hides now.  

[HolyCount]

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

Me goes and hides now.  

Did it have a joystick  

[Jimbob]

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

Me goes and hides now.  

I used to dream of an Amstrad 9512!
my 386 was better than your 386 though  

386 being the processor not operating system though
(went 8086, 286, 386, 486, Pentium......)
Would have been windows 3.0 or 3.1

[Martin_1962]

Vic20

[mickh]

Commodore Amiga 500

[SWMBO]

No HolyCount, I had no need of a joystick in those days

[TheBoy]

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.

[Kevin Wood]

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

[Martin_1962]

About 12 years ago I borrowed a COmpaq 286 luggable and wrote software at home on it

3 minutes to link an executable