Share your computer nostalgia...

cleanbluesky

cleanbluesky

cleanbluesky

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Hello

In a move that has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that I just reached 16k posts, here is the song "Hey Hey 16k" for those that have not already heard it...

http://www2.b3ta.com/heyhey16k/

I'm slightly too young to have been part of the 16k days, I became computer concious with the avent of the Commodore 64, and I still fondly remember its evolution up until Amiga 1200. Tape loading noise, aaahhh.

So in which epoch did your love of computer hardware begin?
 
My first computer was a Commodore 64 too :) I think I was about 11 (in 1984) when I got it. So I suppose I am old enough that I could have got a ZX81 or Spectrum first. I'm glad I didn't though because the C64 was far superior to either of those.
 
had an atari 2600 :)
but first machine was a commadore 64. tip top.
then an amiga 500, 500+, 1200 (with a scsi cd drive, and an 040 expansion card!) 520meg HD as well IIRC.

wish I had never sold it. an OS on 2 floppies :)
 
Atari 2600, then the ZX Spectrum.

The smell of the spectrum printer . . . mmmmmm

The speccy's still knocking about my folks loft, although I'm not sure that it would boot up.

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I've just realised - this thread is little better than a "how old are you" thread.

Point and laugh at the interweb geeks as they date themselves by antiquated hardware.
 
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Blimey, A list (probably incomplete) of my past computers.

ZX80
ZX81
Spectrum
Spectrum+
Newbrain 64k (i am sure thats what it was called)
Tandy TRS80
BBC model B (damn! still have that in the loft)
Atari STFM
...
...Several PCs from 286sx up to current P4
...
went all nostalgic, and purchased an Atari STE from auction recently.
 
My first proper computer was early 1983/2? i think with the zx spectrum 48k. They were all sold out for Christmas and i had to wait till about the feb/march for stocks to become available again. Before the christmas though i actually bought a kempston pro joystick ready for it! I had to take this round to my mates house to use on there spectrums.

They were really awesome days regarding games and computers. Im so glad i was there for those magical days. I really dont think a lot of kids will ever be able to appreciate just how good computer gaming can be/was. Manic miner, trans-am, Jet set willy, Timegate (awesome!), Psion Flight Simulator (blew my mind!), attic attack etc.

Super graphics are all well and good but the GAMEPLAY has to come first.
Definately an example of the "good ole days" in my eyes.

Doosht
 
My first computer was a BBC model B. However that got swiped by the olds who replaced it with a ZX Spectrum , rubber keyed delight(from discs to tape, ******** parents). Then moved onto the ZX spectrum + That kept me going :mad: till I hit 18 and went to uni.
StepFather mark 2, had promised that if I did a science or engineering course he'd build me a PC....... right
So build my own PC after I left uni, quite a jump from a speccy to an Athlon 500, and thats just be evoluving ever since.

God the BBC was great, I've not played any game as much as I did Elite. Even if the majority of the screen was monochrome.
 
rather than talk of old amstrad 464 and 6128 (floppy drive!!) i remember most fondly my first days playing unreal tournament.

was on a crap pc (couldnt run quake3), had a demo if UT from a mag, got addicted, bought the game and was proper addicted to it.
had recently started going out with the wife to be, amazed she stayed with me. after work (she worked next door to the place i worked the doors) we would go back to mine, have some fun then when she was falling asleep i would be in the computer room gaming for countless hours!
god knows why she stayed with me at that time :D
 
My 1st was a Commadore Vic 20 With a Vixen 16k (64k??) Expansion module woahhhhhh allowing me to play the most graphically intense games ever!

My mum used to copy the basic progs, from magazines for me to play on ehehe.

then i went the spectrum, amiga(breaking about 20 quickshot turbo joysticks on the way) PC route. I built my 1st PC with my first paycheque after uni an AMD 350, 512mb beast with a Voodoo banshee! I remember how my stomach dropped when i didnt see the bios screen when powering up. lol i think it took me about 12 hours to build that 1st machine
 
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My first computer was a Acorn Electron, amazeing bit of kit until the B button nackered and we couldn't play any games with the letter B in the name as you had to type the name in to load it :-(
 
Started out on my brothers Commodore 64 aswell. Wrecking joysticks on Daley Thomsons Decathalon, buying rubbish games which made no sense (One man and his dog, Back to the future)
 
First computer I used was a friend's ZX81, probably into 1982-ish, playing some odd fantasy adventure that finished with an ASCII character dragon at the end :)

First computer I owned was c.1983/84 - Acorn Electron - Twin Kingdom Valley, Elite, Chuckie Egg :) Moved from that to a BBC B which I've still got in my parent's loft - with twin Cumana 5.25" floppy drives, 32k sideways ram expansion, external ZIF sockets and replay button. It was a totally uber machine.

Had a good selection spread amongst my friends - Speccy, C64, Dragon32, BBC.

Never really got into Amigas or Atari STs although I had a friend with an Amiga 500. After the beeb I lost interest in computers until starting work in 1991 got me into PCs.
 
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Uhh Think it went

ZX48k
Commodore 64k - With 5 1/4" floppy drive as an extra!!!
NCR machine (odd things dad came back with...)
Spectrum 128k
Then had a couple of years in the doldrums before dad decided to go and spend a lot of money on a top of the line.... 386 with a simply massive 360meg hard drive.
Ahh the days of striving to clear every last achievable byte from that lower 640k memory block...
 
i started with a amiga 500 when i was around 7 or 8 (which must have been 1990ish).
then moved on to an amiga 1500, then 1200.

after that (apart from games consoles) i moved over to PCs (Pentium 60, P133, P200, K6-2 400, PIII 600, 1600XP, 2200XP, P4 [email protected], P4 2.8, [email protected], and now a X2 3800 today :) )
 
damn you CBS!

I'll be singing "Hey Hey 16K!" all day know! gah!

I think our first computer was an Atari XL800, that was an old beast with a tape deck, but it also had a cartridge dock too!

Rich
 
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