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Originally Posted by Gareth
Started with a Speccy 48K, so a bit better than the ZX81, but still miles behind Zeph's Amiga. That little thing rocked. I would spend hours re-typing snippets of code printed in the back of Your Sinclair magazine, only to find out that I'd typed a B instead of an 8 or a zero instead of an O somewhere, and the whole thing would fall over. VB it wasn't. No fancy IDE, no colourful text as you typed commands, and no helpful debugger either.
I also have fond (er... kinda :err) memories of listening to the screeching sound of loading games by tape, only for it to fail and you'd have to start all over again.
I still remember rubbing out the keys by playing Daley Thompson's Decathlon so much and hammering the keys repeatedly  Oh, and ruining loadsa Kempston joysticks too when playing things like Outrun or Combat School or Uridium or Green Beret or Zaxxon or.... |
Same here, Sinclair ZX Spectrum 128, Commodore 16, Commodore 64, Amiga 500 with Extra Ram bit that you had to shoe horn in and then try to wedge the panel in, and then I bought a Compaq in 1994 that went back within a week after which I learned a valuable lesson by buying my 1 and only Packard Bell which went in the dustbin within 6 months of purchase. 1995 onwards I built my own PCs so that I knew what I was getting.
Lost track how many joysticks were snapped playing the old "waggling" games and how many keys on my keyboard failed after playing games like DT's decathlon lol. Man, Your Sinclair magazine and the old type in codes, I spent a week typing in thousands of lines of code, double checked it all, ran it and watched it fail for no reason only to find in the next magazine they had typo'd
Tape loading games with the pychedelic coloured bars flashing around the screen all the way to the tape stopping as it ran out before the game finished installing. lol the good ol' days
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Originally Posted by mick70
My first home pc was a "Dragon", any one remember it?
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http://www.old-computers.com/museum/default.asp
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