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    what was your first computer experience?

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  • #2
    My first computer was an Atari 1200XL .

    It had a sweet floppy drive, a tape drive, and I used to mess around with that thing all day.

    Instead of going to the toy section in stores, I would gravitate towards the computer/electronics section

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    • #3
      Mine was a ZX Spectrum 48k with a separate tape unit and those wonderful rubbery keys!

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      • #4
        Commodore 64, we got it from Dixons for my daughter. I stole it out her room the next day


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        • #5
          My parents bought me a Intel 386 as a present for graduating 6th grade. I used that computer until I bought a Pentium 3 - 500mhtz when they came out. I had that sucker so tweaked out and optimized, it was amazing I got half the things I had to run.

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          • #6
            I had a ZX81 first, the black one with membrane keyboard. Then I moved onto a Vic 20. I still have this and it works !! Tape deck, 16K memory cartridge etc.. Classic
            Last edited by Elmo; 22-03-2005, 13:37.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Elmo
              I had a ZX81 first, the black one with membrane keyboard. Then I moved onto a Vic 20. I still have this and it works !! Tape deck, 16K memory cartridge etc.. Classic

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              • #8
                This picture shows you the membrane keyboard. Its basically two membranes or plastic sheets with electrical contacts between them instead of proper moving keys. I remember the contacts on the membranes would break quite easily if you used them too much
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                • #9
                  my first computer was a Packard Bell 66mhz 486 with 4mb of ram and i think a 500mb hard drive (maybe smaller/bigger i cant remember). i remember when i came home and my mom had set it up, i started playing this futuristic racing game and i was instantly hooked. now i'm a computer nerd

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                  • #10
                    Thats the chappy. Before I got a tape recorder it was a bit tedious as I had to program the games in each time I turned it on. I remember happily typing out lines and lines of code from a games magazine to play a very basic game. I thought it was great at the time though

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                    • #11
                      Mine was a TRS-80 with 16K ram. It hooked up to the TV for its monitor. I also had a single-sided single-density floppy diskette and a 300 baud modem. My first program I wrote made a line go around the screen, kind of like the snake game, except it changed colors and made noises. I thought it was the coolest thing in the world at the time!

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                      • #12
                        My first computer was the ZX Spectrum 16k unless you include speak and spell as a computer, then I had that first..

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                        • #13
                          We got the aforementioned ZX81 and I still have it with me now in my office! Was hoping to sell it on a leading internet auction site the other day but saw how cheaply they are going for....may hold onto it til it's vintage rather than just retro!!!

                          Then we got a Spectrum followed by my C64 and an Atari STFM.

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                          • #14
                            mine was the zx81 in them days it was brill but now
                            well what can i say
                            but ive got all the old consoles
                            atari st . master system . mega drive . snes . playstation . and on pc all the spectrum games and zx81 game (sad) but classics
                            THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE TRUST NO ONE

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                            • #15
                              "my first computer was a Packard Bell 66mhz 486 with 4mb of ram"

                              It's great that such youngsters are on this forum )

                              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!

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