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  • I Ian Darling

    I had a ZX81, complete with 16K RAM pack expansion and a bit of board to stop it wobbling :-)


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    Ian Darling wrote: and a bit of board to stop it wobbling Ah, those were the days. Press one key too hard and your days work would disappear in a flash. Michael CP Blog [^] Development Blog [^]

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      Heyy everyone i thought it would be a cool idea if anyone can post a message what was his very first computer :) Anyone? Always trust your techno lust

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      Her first computer was a Nascom 2 (british Z80 based) Elaine :rose: The tigress is here :-D

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        BBC Model B with a whopping amount of RAM - 28K (I think). Bought a floppy disk drive and many ROMs to insert into the motherboard. Good machine and, of course, the computer that ran the best computer game EVER - Elite. I still remember having to write your own code in FORTRAN rather than be a cut and paste merchant being pampered by colour coded Intellisense - ahh proper programming - those were the days :)

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          Olivetti 2x86 10mHz, 1 MB RAM, 20 MB Harddrive (partioned into 11 and 9 MB - I didn't opt for the 40MB harddrive, because ... who needed *that* much space :D). I bought it in 1992 when I was about to go to "high school", using money I'd earned from my paper-route :D It surprisingly still runs today, although with a Y2K error - and the original monitor is dead I recall. Ahh - the memories ... :D --------------------------- 127.0.0.1 - Sweet 127.0.0.1

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            Acorn Electron C.1985 No Disk drive (tape drive only), no Hard Drive, 32K of memory and thousands upon thousands of lines of BASIC for the simplist of games. them was the days.

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              My first was a kit computer based on the National Semiconductor SC/MP chip from the June 1977 issue of Electronics Australia. 256 bytes of RAM. Amazingly the /MP part of the chip's name meant MultiProcessor - way back then some people were thinking of how to do multiprocessor systems. Rob Manderson I'm working on a version for Visual Lisp++ My blog http://blogs.wdevs.com/ultramaroon/[^]

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                48k ZX Spectrum :). God that was fun. The best bit is i still have it. Its in my mums attic. The only problem with it is the membrane has gone by the Z key which means it needs a good thump to get it to work (hense a large dent in that corner). that made it prety much impossible to program on as the spectrum ahd allt these extended unction keys which i couldnt use without the left ctrl key :((:(. I might hve a look at it now though. Jon

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                  Juan Carlos Cobas
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                  None owned an MSX one? I bought a Sony 201P with 48 Kb. At that time (1985) was a fantastic computer. I really had fun with it.

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                      ZX81, 16K RAM extension and a nice rubber keyboard[^]


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                        When I was 12 I got a Commodore 64. Only with the tape-recorder though... A year after I got my 64, I upgraded with a Floppy-drive and a super-duper speed cartridge... I still remember my first program I wrote: 10 print "Hello Commodore64" 20 goto 10 ;)

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                          The first I used at home was my dad's a Commodore PET 90. My own was an Atari STe 520. Saying that not sure if an Atari 2600 games console counts?


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                            Atari 400 with 4k of RAM. ------- sig starts "I've heard some drivers saying, 'We're going too fast here...'. If you're not here to race, go the hell home - don't come here and grumble about going too fast. Why don't you tie a kerosene rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001

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                              Ye Olde Sinclair ZX81, 1k RAM. Gene Roddenberry was a legendary pioneer of thought-provoking, futuristic science fiction. George Lucas created Jar Jar Binks.

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                                48k ZX Spectrum :). God that was fun. The best bit is i still have it. Its in my mums attic. The only problem with it is the membrane has gone by the Z key which means it needs a good thump to get it to work (hense a large dent in that corner). that made it prety much impossible to program on as the spectrum ahd allt these extended unction keys which i couldnt use without the left ctrl key :((:(. I might hve a look at it now though. Jon

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                                Not being a regular poster here at CodeProject (I'm a stereo-typical lurker), just thought I'd mention that some of us still use ZX Spectrums. Aah the joys of coding in z80 assembler. Anyway, thought I'd give a link to somewhere I know that I think still sells ZX keyboard membranes, in case you decide to fix it... www.sintech-shop.de[^] Cheers, 'bod

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                                  Atari 400 with 4k of RAM. ------- sig starts "I've heard some drivers saying, 'We're going too fast here...'. If you're not here to race, go the hell home - don't come here and grumble about going too fast. Why don't you tie a kerosene rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001

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                                  I recently bought an illustration book on computer history with pictures from the earliest of systems to the present ones and it was astonishing looking at the first mouse and the first portable system hehe. Would be kinda cool if a Museum existed with all those different computer system. From the very first systems to the modern pc. Would be even more cooler to see ENIAC or UNIVAC on display hehe. It would be a huge one. Always trust your techno lust

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                                    Not being a regular poster here at CodeProject (I'm a stereo-typical lurker), just thought I'd mention that some of us still use ZX Spectrums. Aah the joys of coding in z80 assembler. Anyway, thought I'd give a link to somewhere I know that I think still sells ZX keyboard membranes, in case you decide to fix it... www.sintech-shop.de[^] Cheers, 'bod

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                                    Thanks. I think i'll check that out. Jon

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                                      First video game console: Atari 2600 First computer: Commodore C64 Greets Roland


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                                        VIC 20 then C-64 and on to C-128 then A1000, A500, A3000. Still have my Amiga 3000, but its not powered....

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                                          I bought myself a ZX81 in 1982 using my entire life savings (of £45 - I was only 11). My parents had refused to buy one for me for my birthday because it would only be a 'fad'.:sigh: (It wasn't.) After that I had an Oric Atmos, Commadore 64 and an Amiga 500. I got a PC in 1993 (and haven't bought another one since - I use a work laptop at home).

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