Bought for me as a birthday gift , this was my first ever home computer

ZX Spectrum

So over to You , ➜ ➜ ➜ what was your first home computer

IBM (PS/1 486) *Edit with the disney package,

i returned home from school and my mom told me to go look in the basement "there is a surprise in the basement", and there it was. One of the happiest moment i can remember about owning a product. Beats every xmas by a longshot.

That basement became my den after that haha

Totantaz

Edited May 25, 201214 yr by totantaz

A zx spectrum....posh git, a whole 48k of ram. I eventually got a spectrum 128k, with built in cassette player to load the games.

But that happened years after playing on this:

I present to you......The Commodore Vic20, with a full 8-bits.....

Edited May 25, 201214 yr by LucidLucifer

Commodore 64

CPU: Zilog Z-80A, 1.77 MHz RAM: 4K, 16K max* Ports: Cassette I/O, video, Expansion connector* Display: 12-inch monochrome monitor 64 X 16 text Expansion: External Expansion Interface* Storage: Cassette storage* OS: BASIC in ROM*

VIC 20 1979 I think

Upgraded to Commodore 64

Upgraded to Amiga

Finally made it to a PC about 1988

Yeah mine was a Spectrum too. I upgraded to each new model as they came along. Used to make pirate game copies tape to tape too.

Hours spent with magazines and typing in the progs only to find either a print error or a typo made by myself so the prog did not work.

Manic Miner ..... ah, so many happy hours playing that.

hey you guys were lucky.

Mine was a Nascom 2 It did not even have a case.

The

Nascom

1 and 2 were

single-board computer

kits issued in 1977 and 1979, respectively, based on the

Zilog Z80

and including a

keyboard

and

video

interface, a

serial port

that could be used to store data on a

tape cassette

using the

Kansas City standard

, and two 8-bit

parallel ports

. At this time, including a full keyboard and

video display

interface was uncommon, as most microcomputer kits were then delivered with only a

hexadecimal

keypad and

seven-segment display

. To minimize cost, the buyer had to assemble a Nascom by hand-soldering about 3,000 joints on the single circuit board.

I eventually made it to an Amstrad 1512 after brief encounters with a

Memotech FDX

(my first computer with a floppy drive) followed by a CPM based machine the

Bondwell 12 Luggable

.

Edited May 25, 201214 yr by thaimite

I fooled my parents into getting me a BBC Micro Model B as that is what they had at school so better I have the BBC

Countless hours spent playing "Elite", "Revs", "Aviator" and countless text adventures

Still remember the crap joystick for it and having to modify it with rubber bands so it would center!

Then it was the Atari ST and Amiga and the days of "Computer Clubs" which were nothing but copying sessions!

All my knowledge of BBC Basic is long gone now! Used to be decent at Basic

The original Commodore PET.

Texas Instruments TI 44A. 10" TV as a monitor.

Commodore 64

Bastard....I hate you and don't even know you.....I do know the fun you must have had on it, my best mate had one....the <deleted> had a better BMX than me too.

dam_n, I now know where that chip on my shoulder comes from!!!

Edited May 25, 201214 yr by LucidLucifer

VIC 20 1979 I think

Upgraded to Commodore 64

Upgraded to Amiga

Finally made it to a PC about 1988

@wjhall: That's incredible! Your toys were exactly like mine. Great minds think alike, I presume. Cheers.

No time or money for game machines. The Kaypro II could run Wordstar and a Pascal compiler as well. W/ a 300 baud modem to connect to the Uni, got good use out of it. Eat your hearts out, Osborn I owners.

How far we've come.

Kaypro II Released: 1982 Price: US $1595. Weight: 26 lbs CPU: Zilog Z80, 2.5 MHz RAM: 64K Display: 9" green phosphor screen. 24 X 80 text only Ports: Serial port Parallel port Storage: Two internal 5-1/4" SS-DD 195K drives OS: CP/M, SBASIC

Edited May 25, 201214 yr by JSixpack

I started on games consoles... my first was a Sega Master System II and first game was Tazmania... happy days

I didn't get into PCs until my mate introduced me to Championship Manager... no clue what make or model the computer was

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Manic Miner ..... ah, so many happy hours playing that.

Manic miner, oh shit, now we're going down memory lane....

I started on games consoles... my first was a Sega Master System II and first game was Tazmania... happy days

I didn't get into PCs until my mate introduced me to Championship Manager... no clue what make or model the computer was

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Here we go again, Championship Manager.....which version did you play? I was on CM2, that thing cost me my first class degree!!

I bought one of these "box" in 1993, since then are known as "window killer" never let me use your pc or laptop I can find the dark side of your ram

CPU: Zilog Z-80A, 1.77 MHz RAM: 4K, 16K max* Ports: Cassette I/O, video, Expansion connector* Display: 12-inch monochrome monitor 64 X 16 text Expansion: External Expansion Interface* Storage: Cassette storage* OS: BASIC in ROM*

Me too, but I don't recall the specs!

I started on games consoles... my first was a Sega Master System II and first game was Tazmania... happy days

I didn't get into PCs until my mate introduced me to Championship Manager... no clue what make or model the computer was

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Here we go again, Championship Manager.....which version did you play? I was on CM2, that thing cost me my first class degree!!

I was addicted to CM 97/98 for a couple of years; didn't affect my studies but did prevent me from sleeping

I built my own from parts ordered from US, I think the year was 1983. Can't remember where I got the directions from, perhaps Popular Electronics magazine.

Amstrad CPC 6128

Added a bunch of extra's to it, Moved on to a Viglen 286 PC around 1989

Boy I am impressed by you guys! I expected to see a couple Commodore 64's and an IBM PC or maybe even an XT !

I'm 53 and I got my first computer in 1989, a 286 with 40 MB drive, 2 floppies and I guess 640K or maybe 1 MB even though DOS could not use it all. Cost about $ 1800 USD in the US. This post is a great trip down memory lane!

Sinclair ZX81 for me. 1kb of memory. 3.25Mhz Z80. Monochrome upper case only.

1984 - Commodore SX64

The 'grandfather' of notebooks?

My first was an Apple IIc. Two of my dad's buddies had purchased Apple IIe computers and I think this was a bit of keeping up with the Jonses for my Pop because looking back I know it must have been a struggle to afford that little computer. I still remember going to visit my Dad's friend and he had a modem for his IIe. I thought our little computer was pretty darn cool but when he set his phone on top of the modem and called another computer with it I was in awe. Good times. Fun thread! Thanks for the walk down memory lane.

I bought an Apple II + in 1983. even took out a loan for $1800 to help buy it as I recall. I had the 80 column graphics card and something like a 360K external floppy disk drive. Also bought Microsof Fortran software. I hardly used the computer. A few years later I shipped it home to my younger sister. She had just transferred over to a Computer Science degree. She added some things, a modem and what not and she used it in school and for her first job. It helped launch her career so I guess in the long run it was a good buy.

Got to be a ZX81-quality!

Ahh... the power of the early days..

Sinclair ZX80 - 1k, no colour, no sound. Not my first owned, but my first used (as a kid in school)

Went on to actually own....

then...

followed by...

..fond memories - used PC's ever since. (never bothered with any 'fruit')