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    Posted: May 03 2007 at 15:47
Let's talk about vintage computers! What was your first computer? This was mine:



The Timex Computer 2048 was a ZX Spectrum clone and featured:
- Z80A CPU clocked at 3.58 MHz
- 48KB of RAM
- 16 KB ROM (Almost the same as the ZX Spectrum)
- Edge connector compatible with the ZX Spectrum, but missing RGB signals, and the /BE signal.
- RF out connector.
- Ear / Mic Connectors
- Kempston Joystick Connector.
- Extended screen modes when compared with the ZX Spectrum;
- On/Off switch.

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"Music is much like f**king, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent."

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I had the mighty ZX81 complete with programs loaded from tapes and a really early version of BASIC. =) peek poke goto
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I had the amazing Etch'n'sketch Deluxe.

and I'm using it right now!
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My first computer was a BBC B, unfortunately we've no longer got it. Unhappy
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Originally posted by Atomic_Rooster Atomic_Rooster wrote:

I had the amazing Etch'n'sketch Deluxe.

and I'm using it right now!


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"Music is much like f**king, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent."

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Originally posted by Tuzvihar Tuzvihar wrote:

Originally posted by Atomic_Rooster Atomic_Rooster wrote:

I had the amazing Etch'n'sketch Deluxe.

and I'm using it right now!


What's that? Confused


a device utilizing knobs that are used to spell out letters on a screen - very high-tech
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I bought my first computer only in 2002. It was an Acer notebook. It had a 2-year warranty which was to expire in October 2004. In December 2004 its screen went completely out of order...
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Apple //c with 128K of RAM and a 65C02 processor (1.4 MHz).
Got it for Christmas in either 84 or 85.
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Originally posted by laplace laplace wrote:

I had the mighty ZX81 complete with programs loaded from tapes and a really early version of BASIC. =) peek poke goto

I had one of those. It came with a massive 1K of memory, which I expanded to an enormous 16K with the expansion pack which fitted (loosely) in the back. I bought a few games on cassette but could never get them to load. And the keyboard was horrible.
Still, it got me into programming and here I am many years later, still programming in (Visual) Basic.
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I've got a spectrum emulator installed in my PC and I use it from time to time to play old games like Manic Miner, Nightshade or Bubble Bobble. LOL

World of Spectrum
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I play old-school RPG's with my emulator
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Points: 7606 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 03 2007 at 16:10
Originally posted by Tuzvihar Tuzvihar wrote:

I've got a spectrum emulator installed in my PC and I use it from time to time to play old games like Manic Miner, Nightshade or Bubble Bobble. LOL

World of Spectrum


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"Music is much like f**king, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent."

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Points: 865 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 03 2007 at 18:47
Originally posted by Atomic_Rooster Atomic_Rooster wrote:

Originally posted by Tuzvihar Tuzvihar wrote:

Originally posted by Atomic_Rooster Atomic_Rooster wrote:

I had the amazing Etch'n'sketch Deluxe.

and I'm using it right now!


What's that? Confused


a device utilizing knobs that are used to spell out letters on a screen - very high-tech
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My first computer was an Apple III word processor I got when the company I was at upgraded the front office to PCs.  I still have it gathering dust in my music room in the futile hope that it may be worth something someday as a museum piece.

My first home PC was a Packard Bell 486.  I'm starting to get a computer graveyard in my music room though.  Just b
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The badass  commadore 64 for me also. It came with three voices! It could actually play chords while  your pc and its clones languished in the  world of monophonic despair.

Load 8,*    hehe.



I have a computer graveyard also. My first pc clone was also a packard bell 486 btw. Everytime id upgrade the motherboard or cpu there'd be the old one lying there. couldn't let it go to waste so Id buy a new case , grpahics card, mem to go with it and have another computer.  New monitor made me happy but then there was the old one laying there... better throw together the cheapest computer I can so that monitor wont be wasted... In the hieght of my computer geekdom I had 5 running and several in disrepair. Right now just my main, a laptop, and my wifes 'websurfer' computer.  havent upgraded in a few years cept for last year when my Motherboard fried.



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Timex-1000, I still have it and it still works.  Taught myself Basic on it.
 
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Apex Epson XT without hard disk, only floppy disk with a rebootable one, basic language, no Windows of course..
 
I wrote all my thesis in Wordstar, you had to memorize almost 50 commands. LOL
 
BTW: No mouse.
 
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My Mother had a Kaypro that I used a bit. I also used one of the original Apples in High School.
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