1980s / early 90s kids - what computer did you have?

Housey said:
Elan Enterprise
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Hah, somebody does have one :D
Mine turned up on a car boot stall.

I'd quite like a ZX80 myself, my cousin may still have his but I only ever see him at funerals :o
Newbrain was one I coverted, some guy in a computer store let me play with one all day.

I hope my stash is still intact, it's been in my Mother's attic and sometimes dodgy workmen like to help themselves to stuff (like my Tilly lamp :mad:)

I remember when the market flooded with MSX stuff, all the same and a bit boring.
 
Housey said:
Off the top of my head I have...

Vic 20
C16
C64
Amiga 500
Amiga 600
Amiga 1200
Plus 4
Oric Atmos
Oric 1
Elan Enterprise
Texas TI-99/4a (2 off)
Sinclair QL
ZX81
ZX Spectrum
ZX Spectrum +2
Sord M5
Toshiba MSX
BBC Model B (No EPROMS no holes, perfect)
BBC Model A
Acorn Electron
Arcamedies 3000
Dragon 32
Dargon 64
Atari 400
Atari 1200XL
Atari ST
Camputers Lynx
Tatung Einstein
Tandy Colour
Amstrad CPC464 (Think, I am not at home as I type this list)

Ive missed a few off that I can't remember without opening the cupboard of computers :D I focus on the old home computers from the UK sector rather than PC's or pre-pc tech that was more office focused. I NEED to get the following

Jupiter Ace
ZX80
MSX 2's of some form

Many others but I had a spat about 5 years back when I simply went OTT on eBay and outbid the WORLD on kit, even ended driving to some students pad in Oxford who had a room full he'd been collected and bought all his best kit! Paid silly money for some, but they are mostly mint boxed examples so hopefully will pay me back one day :D
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Are you single per chance? :p
 
Sinclair Spectrum 128k
Commodore 64
Amiga 500+
PC 386 DX 40
PC 486 DX4 100
Various PCs
And now a Laptop and an Amiga 1200 (CF classic WB 030 8MB Accelerator) :D
 
bitslice said:
Hah, somebody does have one :D
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In all its glory! :D
 
Few mentions of Tandy in this thread. My Dad used to manage the Bolton store so our house when I was a kid was full of Tandy/Realistic (hi-fi) gear... most of which is still going strong.

I started off with a C64C (later upgraded with the tape drive), followed by a Tandy 1000sx.

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8088 CPU, 640K RAM, dual 5 1/4" floppy drives. This machine is currently sitting on a desk behind me and works just as well as the day it was bought. Still got plenty of software for it too.

My first 'decent' PC was a 486 dx2/66 with 16MB RAM and 3.2GB hard disk. I have so many memories of playing the original Doom, Wolf3D and Duke Nukem on that thing.

Those were the days. Modern technology just doesn't excite me as much as when I was a kid growing up with that sort of hardware.
 
We had am Amstrad 464+ (who remembers Dizzy? And Burnin' Rubber?) and an Atari 2600 (some fantastic games on that - H.E.R.O, Chopper Command, River Raid, Pole Position)

/misty eyed
 
Conscript said:
We had am Amstrad 464+ (who remembers Dizzy? And Burnin' Rubber?) and an Atari 2600 (some fantastic games on that - H.E.R.O, Chopper Command, River Raid, Pole Position)

/misty eyed
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Burnin' Rubber was a bit pants in all honesty. Chase HQ was much better as far as driving games go. The Dizzy games were awesome. Switchblade, Rick Dangerous, Barbarian, Gryzor, Turrican and loads more still stick in my head. :)
 
Amstrad CPC 464 with tape deck, 30 minutes waiting for Harrier Attack to load for it only to crash :p

Boulder Dash haha
 
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Ah... the memories.

ZX81 with wobbly 16K RAM pack (which if wobbled in the right way would crash out of some games but leave the computer running so you could view the BASIC parts of them - that was my first ever bit of 'hacking' by using the wobble to hack into '3D Monster Maze' and change the maze parameters :D )

Then the wonderful BBC B (eventually 'Sideways RAM' expansion, floppy and 'Music 500' synthesizer) - the joys of 6502 Assembly Language.... I think we forget just how expensive they were - £399 in 1981 money is around £1200 today :eek: I don't know how my parents afforded it, however I have to thank them as it led to my career and healthy salary today :D I don't think that there are many gaming experiences today which match a successful space station docking in 'Elite' whilst at full speed and rotating the opposite way to the station. :D
 
Back in the day I had a Zx Spectrum as my first computer around 1983 and then an Amiga when they came out.

I used to collect a lot of old computers and consoles/games so had loads unfortunately I sold it all off a few years back. But, fortunately I've decided to collect again as I have a spare room in the house - the retro room shall return!!!
 
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