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[TheBoy]

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

[HerefordElite]

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

[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

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".  

Happy days.

Kevin

[bertiecbx550]

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...

[Taxi_Driver]

ZX-81 with the 16k ram pack

Snap  

[Kevin Wood]

ZX-81 with the 16k ram pack

Snap  

Ahh, yes. Spend all evening typing in some code from a magazine, then sneeze, move the RAM pack slightly and start again...

Kevin

[cem_devecioglu]

Commodore 128 with a fast ! tape drive

Then 286, 386 - 40 , pentium and so on..

[SteveD]

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!

[Ironingboard]

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.  

http://www.zimmers.net/cbmpics/cpcs.html

[TheBoy]

My first HDD for PC was 30Mb.  "I'll never fill all that up" (baring in mind I used to load Windows from floppy

[Richie London]

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

[Allenm]

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  

[Mr Skrunts]

My first HDD for PC was 30Mb.  "I'll never fill all that up" (baring in mind I used to load Windows from floppy

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

[Mr Skrunts]

Wonder how much space I will need when I find a decent utility that actually works for saving Youtube clips.      

[TheBoy]

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 .  Another Microsoft initiative to rule the (enthusiast) world...   ...shame only compatible at the source code level.