First computer

[stu]

My first was a Speccy 48k spent many a time entering data, and having to press four or five keys at the same time to get the right letter/command, and after 24 hours of none stop data entry manage to have a really nasty picture of a union jack flapping in the wind. Or waiting for about 20 mins for a game to load, only to have the TAPE ERROR appear on the screen and having to rewind the tape, adjust the volume, by a millimetre and try again. Went high tect and got a speccy 128k with built in tape deck, then went ultra high tect and got a speccy 128+3 with built in floppy.

[skynet]

remember my first computer was a commodore vic20, then i moved over to a commodore 16, then i got a commodore 64 then a commodore plus/4, god how i miss the old days of tape drives, and the real blocky graphics (sweet)

[Olliegee]

First computer

I had an old speccy which I had to turn the huge old b/w telly off while the games were loading as I didn't have enough plug sockets for tape recorder, TV, speccy etc. You can imagine my fury after loading a two tape game to realise when the TV was turned on at the end it crashed half way through tape 1.
MMM, how I miss those days (Right)
And there was the whole kafuffle of trading copied games on a C90 tape.....

[Retro]

The Commodore 64 was my first computer - superb in its day - some of the games are still great fun to play even now! and thanks to the emulation sites on the net like TCZ you can still play them on a PC or Mac. Great stuff!

[mrbig]

what was your first computer experience?

http://www.techsupportforum.com

I too also started on the atari 2600 (though a console) but my first computer I would have to say it was a pet at school then a vic-20 I used to write little programs on them and save them to a floppy. Then I upgraded to a commodore 64.

[Pootle]

I had an Atari 2600, which is technically a console if you want to be picky, then it was the good old Commodore Vic 20, with a 32k expansion pack - I thought I was the mutt's.

The Vic 20 got broken though, sadly. It died from interference from my next door neighbour's Flymo (believe it or not!)

[optimus]

Mine was the old rubber keyed speccy

[Wil]

I'm another ZX81 guy although I did have a Atari VCS before that (but that's not a proper computer). My sister actually bought it for me and it's still around, wobbly RAM pack 'n all.

Best ZX81 game - Mazogs

Wil

[gnarlyboy1984]

my first one was an amiga 500 in 88/89 and then a NES. Still have them. my amiga is somewhere in loft but my nes is still plugged in! plug and play, what a phrase.

[CherryMay]

My first computer was a Dragon 32...

It seems so strange that most of my childhood memories consisted of playing games on a Dragon 32 and ZX Spectrum +2, but nearly all of the people I talk to online have never even heard of them, because they weren't around in America...

[dean80's]

this is what i had. A true classic.

[lionelvy]

ZX-80.. yes, I was that cutting edge...

Swiftly followed by ZX-81, then a Dragon 32.

[mezhopking]

My first memory of a computer was of a Binatone TV Master MK 10... it was one of those pong machines that came in a lovely orange casing and pluged into the back of the tv.
This is the machine i had:



For more info on it:
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/...sp?st=3&c=1038

Ah memories :-)

[eddybennet]

Ouch!

Still, the kids I teach at school guess higher than that a lot of the time, so not bad

[remember]

My first computer was an Acorn Electron, which we had for years until we got an Olivetti 8086 - 64kb of RAM and a 5MB HDD! It wasn't until I was in the 6th form that we progressed to a 486: shows how old I am!

Eddybennet - from your post I reckon I can guess your age... erm... 32! Right?