Coffee 1:18 Tue Dec 19
Your first computer?
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The CD player thread got me thinking about early tech.
The first computer I ever used was in my last year at school. It was kept in its own room, which was locked when not in use and for which you had to make bookings. The two machines had Space Invaders and a tennis game, and was used to teach Basic ("If 0 is > than x" or something like that). Green screen, iirc.
The first computer I used at work was a Bunker Ramo machine. Tiny screen.
The first computer I owned was a black and white laptop, bought for £400 in 1996. When buying it, I was told, "It doesn't communicate." I didn't know why it should communicate anyway and considered that irrelevant advice. I bought it for a research project. It died permanently exactly one hour after I'd copied the last files of the 250,000-word opus onto floppy disks in 1997.
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wurzel
1:25 Tue Dec 19
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Commodore 16
Commodore
Amiga
Amiga
good old days
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Cheezey Bell-End
1:25 Tue Dec 19
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A VIC20 from Rumbelows in 1985
First PC was a 386SX in 1991
In those days, to get a basic IT job, you just had to be interested. These days, everyone has a computer.
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wurzel
1:25 Tue Dec 19
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*Commodore 64.
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master
1:27 Tue Dec 19
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ZX Spectrum
Commodore 64
Amiga
N64
Playstation
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madeeasy
1:28 Tue Dec 19
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BBC 256. with external cd drive AND tape deck....1985 i think
i was the bollocks.
me and my mates spoke then about how good it would be if we could play football against each other when we were at home....
we were ahead of our time....
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Woodford Green
1:29 Tue Dec 19
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48k Sinclair ZX Spectrum in 1982
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Gavros
1:30 Tue Dec 19
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My brother got a Vic 20 then a ZX Sepectrum 48k.
In about 1995 I managed to sell the Vic 20 without any leads or controllers at a car boot sale in Dagenham for 20 quid. That bloke must still be smarting. Thats what you get by trying to cheap out your kids, who no doubt asked for a SNES or something.
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Grumpster
1:35 Tue Dec 19
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Spectrum at home. Load a game for 3 minutes and then cry when the cunt failed.
Does still seem weird that the internet wasn't about until a year after I started work.
Can barely remember using dog shit computers other than ones with the green screens at school that also had printers linked with paper attached to the reel.
Kids nowadays simply wouldn't be able to cope if they went back in time and had to use the crap we got, even though we loved it all.
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BRANDED
1:39 Tue Dec 19
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I had an Atari for music making in the 1980s. Then bought PCs for the office. My first own computer was one of those colourful iMacs.
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dh061074
1:39 Tue Dec 19
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Used the BBC Model B at school
At home I went:
ZX81
Amstrad CPC464
Amiga 500
PC
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Supplemented with:
Sega 8 bit master system
Sega 16 bit megadrive
N64
Sony PSP
Xbox
Xbox 360
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Gavros
1:41 Tue Dec 19
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I used to play a game for hours on the spectrum called New Wheels John? You owned a car dealership and people came in to buy cars and you haggled with them. Then once a week you went to an auction. It must have been one of the worst games ever made. Here's an extract of the gameplay:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBOzBrd1fx8
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The Stoat
1:42 Tue Dec 19
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What's this got to do with WEST HAM?
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lowermarshhammer
1:45 Tue Dec 19
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10 PRINT "THIS COMPUTER SHOP IS FULL OF SHIT"
20 GOTO 10
RUN
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Spandex Sidney
1:45 Tue Dec 19
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Christmas 1985, Commodore 64. I mocked those with Spectrums and Vic 20's
Highest-selling single computer model of all time I believe was the 64
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Lee Trundle
1:47 Tue Dec 19
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Mine was also a Commodore 64.
The first game I played was the Space Invaders game that appeared while GHOSTBUSTERS was loading.
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ohgodno
1:55 Tue Dec 19
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ZX81
Mattel Aquarius
ZX Spectrum.
Commodore 64's and Amiga's were for Tottenham fans and paedo's
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mallard
2:06 Tue Dec 19
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A Sharp MZ700 with built in tape deck.
Absolute dog-shit, pissed me off as all my mates had Commodores and Spectrums
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Mike Oxsaw
2:07 Tue Dec 19
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Found a receipt the other day for one of the first desktop computers BT ever bought - monochrome (green) screen Compaq with IIR a whopping 40Mb (you'll never fill that, Oxsaw) hard disk drive.
$4,500.00
But it has a serial AND a parallel port. So there.
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gregan
2:13 Tue Dec 19
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ZX Spectrum 48k (Iron keys)
- Chequered Flag
- Survival
R tape loading error
Kempston Joysticks
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gph
2:13 Tue Dec 19
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I remember writing a massive computer program to do something or other, and dropping the cards.
Took me longer to put them back in order than it would have to submit it for punching again.
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