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What Was Your 1st Computer
« on: 11 July 2008, 19:17:48 »
[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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Re: What Was Your 1st Computer
« Reply #1 on: 11 July 2008, 19:20:30 »
Some amstrad thing... cant remember the details!

Prior to that paper and pen!  ;)

£999? Fancy for 89 you show off!!  ;D ;D


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Re: What Was Your 1st Computer
« Reply #2 on: 11 July 2008, 19:20:32 »
I don't remember the model.  Some Mac 2e or something, slim little white thing with separate monitor - 1993.
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Re: What Was Your 1st Computer
« Reply #3 on: 11 July 2008, 19:21:45 »
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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Re: What Was Your 1st Computer
« Reply #4 on: 11 July 2008, 19:25:01 »
Commodore Amiga 500
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Re: What Was Your 1st Computer
« Reply #5 on: 11 July 2008, 19:25:33 »
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.

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Re: What Was Your 1st Computer
« Reply #6 on: 11 July 2008, 19:28:33 »
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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Re: What Was Your 1st Computer
« Reply #7 on: 11 July 2008, 19:29:25 »
The good old days eh!! . . . .  mmmm, in some cases maybe not.  Hope I never see an Amstrad again.
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Re: What Was Your 1st Computer
« Reply #8 on: 11 July 2008, 19:29:40 »
ZX-81 with the 16k ram pack
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Re: What Was Your 1st Computer
« Reply #9 on: 11 July 2008, 19:33:20 »
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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« Reply #10 on: 11 July 2008, 19:36:54 »
Upgraded to speccy 48+ with interface 1 and microdrive, I was posh. ;D
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Re: What Was Your 1st Computer
« Reply #11 on: 11 July 2008, 19:38:39 »
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Re: What Was Your 1st Computer
« Reply #12 on: 11 July 2008, 19:40:02 »
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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Re: What Was Your 1st Computer
« Reply #14 on: 11 July 2008, 19:42:33 »
and my mate up the road had a Dragon32k??? wtf was that? never seen or heard of one since :-?
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