John Posted September 15, 2003 Share Posted September 15, 2003 What was your first computer? 32K BBC Micro When did you buy it? Around 1983 How much did it cost? £400 Specification? Ram 32K ROM 32K - 8 Colours + 8 flashing colours Tape for saving and loading data No monitor (Had to use TV) Built in Basic and Assembler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
t020 Posted September 15, 2003 Share Posted September 15, 2003 1995: P133 16mb RAM 1.2gb HDD 4x CD ROM 14.4k Modem (!) Lots of useless software (have since learnt to save hundreds buying directly from manufacturers/suppliers, or building myself, as opposed to paying retail prices which pretend to be a good deal offering lots of useless 'free' software) Cost = £1100. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scatterheart Posted September 15, 2003 Share Posted September 15, 2003 ahhh my good old atari pacman and mousetrap those were the days Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kittykat Posted September 15, 2003 Share Posted September 15, 2003 amiga 600 you could type stuff in and it said it in a sort of crap version of microsoft sam way but me and my friends used to giggle away when it said 'im stupid' and if we were feeling really daring stuff like 'gay' Did anyone else have one of these great machines? if so i really want to know the name of the paint program you got with it cos its bugging me i cant remember. i used to go on it loads and could make really crap animations which seemed good at the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hullmackem Posted September 15, 2003 Share Posted September 15, 2003 Acorn Electron, circa 1983 I think. Cost my parents a fortune i remember Then :- 1987ish Sinclair Spectrum +2A 1990ish Amiga A1200 1996ish P120\16\20Gb Since then I've been really geeky and built my own PC's 8) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RPG Posted September 15, 2003 Share Posted September 15, 2003 Originally posted by kittykat Did anyone else have one of these great machines? if so i really want to know the name of the paint program you got with it cos its bugging me i cant remember. i used to go on it loads and could make really crap animations which seemed good at the time. paint shop Hull Mackam - that P120.. i think you mean 2GB my timeline: BBC Micro Amiga 500 Amiga 500+ Amiga 1200 IBM 386 P120 (32mb, 1gb HDD, 28.8k) - this still works and is my backup! Cyrix 233 (32mb, 8GB, 33k) then back to the P120 then a P4 1.4Ghz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
t020 Posted September 15, 2003 Share Posted September 15, 2003 I forgot to mention that when I was very young I had a Commodore 64! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lickszz Posted September 15, 2003 Share Posted September 15, 2003 Atari 2600 - Does this count? Commodore 64 with the chocolate keys. Atari ST Commodore Amiga 500 Commodore Amiga 600 PC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phanerothyme Posted September 15, 2003 Share Posted September 15, 2003 my dad bought a ZX80, but neither him nor me could make head or tail of it. My first computer was a BBC model B 32K. What a fantastic machine that was. Light years ahead of everything else. I high resolution display mode, a 16 colour display mode and more digital connectors than you could shake a stick at (not that we ever used them for anything apart from that stunning twin 5.25" FDD - God how that revolutionised Elite, you could now save your position reliably in a couple of seconds) In the end my dad approriated it for word processing, which it continued to do until 1997 when, bizarrely, it started making a funny smell. My dad switched it off and unplugged it and phoned the computer shop (one that actually serviced them!). WHile he was on the phone, the BBC suddenly started pouring smoke from every orifice. In the repair shop all the man could say was " That's impossible" over and over. Every single major chip (black rectangle) had a hole in it the size of a cigarette burn, and a corresponding sooty patch on the inside of the upper casing, directly above each chip. And it was unplugged at the time. Its death was greatly mourned. since: 1989 - Amiga 500 199? 486SX 33Mhz 8Mb 200MbHDD 1997 Pentium Pro MMX 200Mhz 32Mb Ram (21" Eizo Monitor!!) 1999 iMac RevB Bondi Blue 233Mhz 96Mb RAM 4GB HDD 2004 G5 17" Powerbook? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikey Posted September 16, 2003 Share Posted September 16, 2003 Commodore 16 - with the cassette tape Couldnt make a lot of sense out of it then had Toshiba 386 Laptop Toshiba P100 Laptop Viglen P120 Desktop Now HP Pavilion 2.4ghz 40GB HD Desktop Dell Latitude Laptop Ipaq Handheld PC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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