my first computer - Page 4

marky · 20-07-2005, 00:28

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Originally Posted by Paul M

We've done this several times now - so just to repeat - Apple II

what the bloomin it looks like a droid did lucas give you royalties

Charlie_Bubble · 20-07-2005, 00:53

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Originally Posted by Wayne A

I know this is going to seem a weird question but when did the Internet first launch. Was it 1995?

My first PC was a Texas Instruments TI99/4A. The first computer I ever used at school was some kind of commodore VIC thing at primary school in about 1981. The first PCs I used in secondary school were ZX spectrums and ancient IBM PCs around 1984, no HDD. BUT, I can also remember, around 1988-89, browsing BBS's with my fairly well-off mate on some old Apple.

From the TI99/4A I went on to own a BBC model B (Elite mmmmmmm), an Amstrad cpc464, Commodore Amiga, Apple classic 2 (For uni).... various IBM compatible PCs...

Personally, the first time I REALLY used the internet was around 1992 with an apple mac, using gopher etc.

I first got the internet at home in about 1994. Signed up to compuserve... boy did I regret that!

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Originally Posted by markymoan

MATT was it a 128+

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this was suposed to be about the fun and nightmares of the old computers

like waiting for 30 mins for a game to load just to get <an error occured in line 4425436 rewind the tape and try again>
but never mind

The good old days when copying a game only took a double cassette machine!

marky · 20-07-2005, 01:14

my school must have been posh in 1983 we had bbc a's

oh and a thing in the back room called challenger that looked like somthing out of time tunnel

grandmaster · 20-07-2005, 08:16

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Originally Posted by Zeph

My First Computer, an Amiga 500,

I was posh... i had a HDD in my amiga !!
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Originally Posted by Monster Jedi

I must have married your first pc

Pfftt

ha ha

Greenie for making me laugh first thing in the morning!
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Originally Posted by markymoan

eerm dont quote me but i was using a modem in 1985 to access servers but that wasnt the world wide web

I used to love visiting bullitin boards before the WWW was available to me.
Cost my mum and dad a fortune in phone bills lol.

I even started my own but it never really took off as we only had one phone line lol

AndrewJ · 20-07-2005, 11:16

Mine was a custom built Pentium 1 100mhz, with 16mb of ram, a 694mb HD, 8mb visuals and a small soundblaster card, with a 14inch monitor which claimed 1024 by 768 res but would not go past 800 by 600, and the motherboard from hell, in fact likely rejected from hell it was that bad.

After that I got a 486 Laptop, and a BBC old thing with a Amstrad which I still have with its green screen and dual 3.5inch floppy drives.

marky · 20-07-2005, 11:20

grandmaster my modem had a max speed of 1.2k or 1200 baud

downloading games now thats a phone bill

**Chris** · 20-07-2005, 11:28

BBC B, with no disk drive - bought and added the interface and drive a couple of years later, when we couldn't stand tapes any longer

Then an Epson EL2 - basically a 286 PC, with some horrible early incarnation of MS-DOS, no Windows of any kind, 640k RAM and a 20MB HDD.

Then an Escom (stop laughing!) early Pentium (50 IIRC), Win 95 and I think, about 2GB HDD.

Now a classic iMac, G3-450, 20GB. Preinstalled with OS9 but now running 10.2.8 quite happily. At work I have a Dell Latitude C400 lappy, with Win 2k, P4 2GHz (I think), 512Mb RAM and 20GB HDD.

And I love nothing better than to unwind at home playing BBC games on the Horizon emulator on my Mac. So much for progress!

AndrewJ · 20-07-2005, 11:30

And in about 10years we will be playing games we play on these laughin and remembering the old times, while (hopefully) we will have holo suites...hmm jessica alba...yes...

grandmaster · 20-07-2005, 11:32

heh heh i had a 1200, then a 2400,9600,14.4,28.8 etc

i dont think i could ever go back to dial up ('cept maybe just for email)

My list.

Commodore Vic20
Spectrum +2
Spectrum +3
Atari 65xe
Apricot <--although never really got it to do anything, the big noisy lump just sat there.
Amiga
386 PC
custom 486 PC
custiom Pentium
Loads of other P Series
Now i cant be bothered building at all ( i dont do it for anyone else now either, just no money in it anymore plus the fact the world and his wife seem to be able to build a pc these days, annoys me really.. they are quite happy to rip the top of a computer and poke about but they wont do it to a tv..)

I now run:

AMD 1Ghz ,1GB ram server
AMD 2400 , 512 - main pc
Intel 2800 Ghz laptop 384Mb Ram

Stuart · 20-07-2005, 11:36

My first computer? A ZX81 (with patented "wobbly" ram pack and thermal printer). the '81 was basically an overgrown calculator with ideas above it's station, but it did teach me programming (started with 10 PRINT "STUART", 20 GOTO 10

) , and it did have one of the most scary games ever (3d monster maze).

Then, I had a spectrum 48k (with the bad colour clash problem and the rubber keys). The speccy had faults, but you could get some interesting effects to display using the "Border" command, and it did have some addictive games (specially Manic Miner, Jet Set Willy and Sabre Wulf).

Then I had a commodore 64. This was an amazing computer for the time. Some very addictive games (Monty on the Run, Thing on a Spring, Parallax, Bounty Bob Strikes back)

Then onto the Amigas. I had a 500 (with 1 Meg ram) and then a 1200 (with 120 Meg HDD). These were, and still are, my favourite computers.

Since then I have had a variety of PCs and Macs, culminating in the Athlon 64 tower PC, Piii700 server and Sony Vaio laptop I have now. While these are all an order of magnitude more powerful than the Amigas, the amiga still had a pioneering spirit that the PC lacks, and windows has always seemed to be a cheap copy of Workbench (the Amiga UI) even though it is more powerful.

marky · 20-07-2005, 11:48

ok here i go

zx81
aquarius
spectrum 32(rubber keys)
commadore 64
bbc a
bbc b dfs
olivetti 486 on win 3.1
custom amd k5 100
custom mmx 200
custom amd k6 500
custom amd duron 900
fujitsu celeron 2800 2x80 gig hdd duel o/s 98 and xp 128meg g force 1024ddr
and various laptops wich i dont count coz i treat them like a filofax
and last but not least

not decided what to put init yet but the front looks like a 60s juke box bubbles and all

zovat · 20-07-2005, 11:51

My first computer was a commodore C16, I then upgraded to an amstrad 464 (tape drive built in)..

At school we had some old RM boxes (8" floppys) and some BBC Bs - that was in the early 80s..

Since then I have had various PCs - both self built, built by a mates company, and occasionaly (once I think) a shop bought one.. (evesham).

I still remember copying games on my tape-tape recorder on my boom box !!!!

MikeyB · 20-07-2005, 12:23

Started of with a 16K ZX Spectrum
Got the 48K Ram pack
It died, then upgraded to a 48K ZX Spectrum+ with plastic keys!
Then went on to the Atari 520STFM

Then from there to my first pc:

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Originally Posted by Gareth

Heh, forgot to mention that my first PC was a Viglen 386SX, which had a stonking 8MB Ram and an 80MB HDD

Mine was a 386SX 33MHz, 1MB Ram, 40MB hard drive, 1MB VGA card, 14" Colour SVGA monitor
To start with just had MS-DOS on it. I upgraded the RAM & HD later when I put Windows 3.0 on, then Windows 3.1

I've got a little collection of old computers now, if I ever get round to oding the website, there'll be quite a lot of pictures online.

Bifta · 20-07-2005, 13:46

Talking of Amigas (which are clearly the greatest home computers ever made), I run WinUAE with Amigainabox, you need a kickstart 3.1 rom and Workbench 3.1 but it's lush!

Taf · 20-07-2005, 14:12

Oric Atmos... and I still have it in the attic despite several offers to buy.

I've got the Oric printer/plotter too!