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  • N NormDroid

    I had an Atari ST 512. What did you own?

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    Amiga 600, with the built in hard drive http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_600[^] (Also had a Speccy)

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    • P Pete OHanlon

      Neither - I was programming professionally at this stage, so could afford a PC.

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      Pete O'Hanlon wrote:

      Neither - I was programming professionally at this stage, so could afford a PC.

      Ohhhh, get you!

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      • S Stuart Dootson

        Atari 512 - later upgraded to the full 1MB.

        Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p

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        Wjousts
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        I upgraded mine so I could play The Secret of Monkey Island. The only problem was that the upgrade kit was a bit crap and ended up being slightly too tall for the case (as I remember it, it was a board that sat on top of the processor). So for the rest of my Atari ST days the case was slightly bowed and would rock back and forth on a flat surface.

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        • N NormDroid

          I had an Atari ST 512. What did you own?

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          Ian Shlasko
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          Never had an Amiga... Atari 800XL... From there, I moved to an IBM PS/2-25. Still have my old copy of the IBM Basic Handbook... The little book that started it all.

          Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in? Developer, Author (Guardians of Xen)

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          • N NormDroid

            I had an Atari ST 512. What did you own?

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            Rajesh R Subramanian
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            Probably I was not born back then. :)

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            • N NormDroid

              I had an Atari ST 512. What did you own?

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              hairy_hats
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              Neither, my first was a BBC Master Compact.

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              • N NormDroid

                I had an Atari ST 512. What did you own?

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                Jorgen Sigvardsson
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                Neither. I went from C64 to PC. :)

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                • H hairy_hats

                  Neither, my first was a BBC Master Compact.

                  I hope you realise that hamsters are very creative when it comes to revenge. - Elaine

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                  Jorgen Sigvardsson
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                  BBC as in the TV company?

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                  • N NormDroid

                    I had an Atari ST 512. What did you own?

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                    Dalek Dave
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                    Speccy 48K My brother had an Amiga, I used to spend hours playing Rainbow Islands and Lemmings.

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                    • J Jorgen Sigvardsson

                      BBC as in the TV company?

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                      Dalek Dave
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                      See Here[^] It was what Daddy bought the Rich Boys, but it was the bollocks though.

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                        Speccy 48K My brother had an Amiga, I used to spend hours playing Rainbow Islands and Lemmings.

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                        Dalek Dave wrote:

                        Speccy 48K

                        Dizzy?

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                          Dalek Dave wrote:

                          Speccy 48K

                          Dizzy?

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                          Original!

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                          • N NormDroid

                            I had an Atari ST 512. What did you own?

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                            Dave Parker
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                            Amiga - ace machine :) Started with an A500+ and then later an A1200. Wasn't that keen on the first PC I had (well actually it was my dad's). The OLE integration between different apps was nice (then again it had 4MB of RAM compared to the 2MB in my Amiga) but I preferred Digita Wordworth to MS Word and there were loads of things I prefered in the Amiga OS (support for long filenames from the beginning, more sensible drive names as opposed to letters, etc). And of course the Amiga had fantastic graphics and games - 4096 colors on screen at the same time in the mid 80s and around 262,000 on screen at the same time with the later models in the early 90s. I never had an Atari but heard they had good audio hardware, maybe something to do with MIDI support?

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                            • D Dalek Dave

                              See Here[^] It was what Daddy bought the Rich Boys, but it was the bollocks though.

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                              I declare a religious war on your ass, DD. You sound like one of those spectrum nerds with their microdrives

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                              • N NormDroid

                                I had an Atari ST 512. What did you own?

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                                David Crow
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                                I had an Atari 5200 for games, and a Commodore SX-64 for computing.

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                                • D Dalek Dave

                                  See Here[^] It was what Daddy bought the Rich Boys, but it was the bollocks though.

                                  ------------------------------------ "When Belly Full, Chin Hit Chest" Confucius 502BC

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                                  Jorgen Sigvardsson
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                                  Hey, you could run Elite on it! That's a 5 in an instant... ;)

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                                  • R Russell Jones

                                    I declare a religious war on your ass, DD. You sound like one of those spectrum nerds with their microdrives

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                                    Dalek Dave
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                                    Let the war begin! Speccy had more addressable memory that the Beeb or the C64, was cheaper, had more software and was the biggest selling machine in the UK!

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                                    • N NormDroid

                                      I had an Atari ST 512. What did you own?

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                                      Chris Losinger
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                                      Amiga 500

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                                      • D Dalek Dave

                                        Let the war begin! Speccy had more addressable memory that the Beeb or the C64, was cheaper, had more software and was the biggest selling machine in the UK!

                                        ------------------------------------ "When Belly Full, Chin Hit Chest" Confucius 502BC

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                                        Russell Jones
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                                        Damn i can't remember all the arguments from back in the day. I do rememember that the wars went on for a good couple of years though so we must have had some material to go on about.

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                                        biggest selling machine in the UK!

                                        By which measure Fosters is probably the finest alcoholic beverage this country has to offer.

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                                        • R Russell Jones

                                          Damn i can't remember all the arguments from back in the day. I do rememember that the wars went on for a good couple of years though so we must have had some material to go on about.

                                          Dalek Dave wrote:

                                          biggest selling machine in the UK!

                                          By which measure Fosters is probably the finest alcoholic beverage this country has to offer.

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                                          Dalek Dave
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                                          I can see a flaw in one of my arguments! :)

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