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Tony R 
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 Posted: June 28 2007 at 12:08 |
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Commodore c64, I think...
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Dean
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Posted: June 28 2007 at 13:36 |
 Heavyfreight wrote:
48K ZX Spectrum for me, although I got to play with a Honeywell Bull mainframe running Basic and also a large IBM Prime using PASCAL.
Clive Sinclair did a great service to the computer industry with the ZX range and got an awful lot of people started on the IT route, It's a sad comment on we British and our media that he'll always be remembered for the C5 instead.  |
Neither Sir Clive nor Sir Alan have done themselves any favours since the 80's really. 
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limeyrob
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Posted: June 28 2007 at 13:54 |
Acorn Electron
with early BASIC, a cassette player and if I remember rightly, a plug transformer the size of half a brick it was very good for writing
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T.Rox
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Posted: August 25 2007 at 02:12 |
An Atari 400 ... still got it ... and it still works.
I play Star Raiders every now and then ... a truly awesome game from "back in the day"!
Edited by T.Rox - August 25 2007 at 02:12
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"Without prog, life would be a mistake."
...with apologies to Friedrich Nietzsche
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MrHiccup
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Posted: September 04 2007 at 15:17 |
Back in 1992:
IBM-PC 286, 4MB of RAM, with DOS, no HD, no mouse, Hercules video card, no sound card...I used to play Space Invaders, Alley Cat, Pac-Man, Hard Hat Mack, Prince of Persia, Maniac Mansion, among others.
However, the keyboard was the best I've ever seen. It still works (with exception of the left Shift key).
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Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends...
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Tapfret
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Posted: September 11 2007 at 14:45 |
Wooohooo!
I can't believe I am the only one that had the first computer with a 16bit processor as their first computer.
The Texas Instruments TI-99/4A
With the power of 4KB of storage.....in your faces!!!! 
Edited by Tapfret - September 11 2007 at 14:46
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jimidom
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Posted: September 11 2007 at 16:16 |
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"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." - HST
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Rivertree
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Posted: September 11 2007 at 16:20 |
print "Hello" (simple basic?  )
Commodore 64
Edited by Rivertree - September 11 2007 at 16:27
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The Doctor
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Posted: September 11 2007 at 16:21 |
An abacus. God I feel old. 
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I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you?
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Dean
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Posted: September 11 2007 at 16:41 |
Tapfret wrote:
Wooohooo!
I can't believe I am the only one that had the first computer with a 16bit processor as their first computer.
The Texas Instruments TI-99/4A
With the power of 4KB of storage.....in your faces!!!! |
yep. but your 4K memory was only 8-bit, so in reality you only had 2K of program memory with twice the access time.   - still, it was a very nice system, but frighteningly expensive once you started adding periferals.
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Melomaniac
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Posted: September 11 2007 at 16:45 |
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We had a Commodore Vic-20, and then a Commodore 64.
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"One likes to believe in the freedom of Music" - Neil Peart, The Spirit of Radio
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The Doctor
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Posted: September 11 2007 at 16:47 |
I had a Vic 20 too, followed by a Commodore 64. I could program that baby to flash a dot on the screen and move the dot around in a random pattern.
Needless to say, I got all the girls when I was young.
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I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you?
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Tapfret
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Posted: September 11 2007 at 16:47 |
darqdean wrote:
Tapfret wrote:
Wooohooo!
I can't believe I am the only one that had the first computer with a 16bit processor as their first computer.
The Texas Instruments TI-99/4A
With the power of 4KB of storage.....in your faces!!!! |
yep. but your 4K memory was only 8-bit, so in reality you only had 2K of program memory with twice the access time. - still, it was a very nice system, but frighteningly expensive once you started adding periferals. |
Which we did not have, not even the game cartridges. So basically it got used for....
10 print "I like boobies"
20 goto 10
Shortly after I got it my neighbor got a Commodore 64 with a floppy drive and "Jumpman". I never turned the TI on again.
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Melomaniac
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Posted: September 11 2007 at 16:51 |
The Doctor wrote:
I had a Vic 20 too, followed by a Commodore 64. I could program that baby to flash a dot on the screen and move the dot around in a random pattern.
Needless to say, I got all the girls when I was young. |
The amount of games made for C64 is mindblowing when you think of it... We had over 600, easily.
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"One likes to believe in the freedom of Music" - Neil Peart, The Spirit of Radio
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Dean
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Posted: September 11 2007 at 16:55 |
My first colour computer was the Camputers Lynx... 
brought out to rival the Spectrum (but without the dead-flesh keyboard) it was similar to the Apple 2 but used a Z80 processor.
after that I bought an Amstrad CPC6128 and then finally an Amiga 1500 (which I still have somewhere in the loft).
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