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**fynstee** · **What was your first computer like? -** 09-02-2008, 06:37 PM

What was your first computer like?

Mine was a Commodore 64

With a natty screen and loads of cool games like Pit Stop

I also liked Motor Mania

The Legendary Manic Miner

and good old Blue Max

the text adventure Twin Kingdoms Valley was a classic. Plus lesser known ones like Sams Jam, Bruce Lee & a Hunchback based game too

todditedude · **Zx81 :o -** 09-02-2008, 06:54 PM

well the zx81 was my first computer. widely used as a door stop, once the zx Spectrum came out a couple of years later. What a puter tho

I remember my brother spending hours putting machine code into the zx81 which came out as SCRAM 81. Classic defender style game. It was superb.

Quick list of puters to follow

ZX81, SX64 (mobile version of the Commodore 64 with built in 5" monitor and Disk Drive

), Amiga 500 with 1 meg ram.

Pc wise started with Pentium 100, progressed to PIII 800 Mhz before getting AMD 2.0 Ghz, then P4 3.4 and now back to AMD 3.0 64 bit

**fynstee** · 09-02-2008, 07:01 PM

I remember quite a few people having the ZX81

Though one guy did have a BBC micro which seemed really cool and powerful at the time.

**doom2** · 09-02-2008, 07:03 PM

Mine was a ZX81...

The Sinclair ZX81 home computer, released by Sinclair Research in 1981, was the follow up to the company's ZX80. The case was black, with a membrane keyboard; the machine's distinctive appearance was the work of industrial designer Rick Dickinson. Video output, as in the ZX80, was to a television set, and saving and loading programs was via an ordinary home audio tape recorder to audio cassette. Timex Corporation manufactured kits as well as assembled machines for Sinclair Research. In the United States a version with double the RAM and an NTSC television standard was marketed as the "Timex Sinclair 1000".

**doom2** · 09-02-2008, 07:16 PM

This was my Second computer. My dad bought it from his work when my ZX81 died I was still learning basic programming. (forgot it all now)

The PET (Personal Electronic Transactor) was a home-/personal computer produced by Commodore starting in 1977. Although it was not a top seller outside the Canadian, US, and UK educational markets, it was Commodore's first full-featured computer and would form the basis for their future success.

I then went onto a spectrum 128, Amiga 500, Then my first PC P75 running IBM OS/2.

todditedude · 09-02-2008, 07:18 PM

lmfao @ the zx81 doorstop pic. nice one fynstee

Demonmonkey · 09-02-2008, 07:23 PM

My first computer was also a ZX81 waiting 10 minutes of beeping for the game not to load half the time anyway...lol - Then I had a commodore 64, then I went top of the range with a spectrum 128 (well I thought it was at the time at least).

**talonz** · 09-03-2008, 06:19 AM

my first computer was a fujitsu it had commander keen on it

smoker17_81 · 09-03-2008, 05:11 PM

miine was with 8gm hdd and 64mb ram...........

**Twink** · 09-03-2008, 11:38 PM

Amiga 500 I think it was. Still play some of the games aswell...(although now on pc obviously!)..... Civilisation, Colonisation, Settlers... un-rivalled classics imo

**yesiownanmgb** · 09-04-2008, 12:15 AM

Mine was also an Amiga 500. Bought at a garage sale for 20.00 when I was 10.

AMIGA FOREVER!!!

**Vaine** · 09-04-2008, 12:20 AM

Mine was also an Amiga 500 with a H-U-G-E 1mb of RAM. Playing Indy 500 with a mouse until 4 in the morning. Ahhh....the good life.

xsysx · 09-04-2008, 07:54 AM

My first computer, was a dragon 32 system.

Description Manufacturer Dragon Data Limited Model Dragon 32 Date Announced 1982 Date Canceled Unknown Number Produced Tens of Thousands Country of Origin UK Price ?? Current Value $5-$100

Specifications Processor Motorola 6809 Speed .9 MHz RAM 32K ROM Unknown Storage Cassette Tape Expansion Cartridge Slot Bus N/A Video Several resolutions to 256x192 I/O Parallel, Serial OS Options Flex and OS-9 (Level I) as well as Forth as an OS and language

Notes The Dragon 32 was basically a TRS-80 Color Computer clone. It wasn't 100% compatible, but the specifications were nearly identical and much of the TRS-80 software library would run on a Dragon.

Related Items in Collection Joysticks, some software, manual Related Items Wanted Additional software. Tape player.
From there i went on to a zx spectrum, fortune system 16/32 system and then moved on to 286, 386, ect ect

Nice piece of history

**fynstee** · 09-04-2008, 11:49 AM

Hi Sysx,

I remember the Dragon32. One of my mates had one, we used to play Barbarian 1 or 2 on it, and some txt-ish adventure game that had something about a circus in it

My memory must be really crap, I can't remember the name of anything

**Blufreak** · 09-04-2008, 12:07 PM

lol my first system was a videomaster this is the most similar model i can find

my first actual pc was a 486 dx2 processor ( thats the one with the maths co-processor enabled :p ) at a mighty 50mhz 8mb of ram and a 384mB hdd

**fynstee** · 09-04-2008, 01:35 PM

pmsl! I've never seen anything quite like that one Blu, thanks

Did it load games cartridges? Like those pre-playstation Amega or Atari machines

**doom2** · 09-04-2008, 04:23 PM

no that is the game... football, tennis or squash... Nice one!!!

**Blufreak** · 09-04-2008, 05:52 PM

exactly doom,it was basically as follows --> football was 2 player pong on green background, tennis was 2 player pong on orangey-red background and squash was 1 player pong for the loners on a blue background lmao,had an atari 2600 aswell tho,both loved and hated pole position