Share your computer nostalgia...

My first computing experiences were with a BBC Micro, we had at least 3 at one point including the one that was in a "desktop" frame with twin floppy drives and an integrated 12" CRT. Bang on!

I used to play Jet Set Willy, some grand prix game and a Wolf game? Can't remember the name. Had all the classics, though!
 
My first computer was a ZX Spectrum 16k - later upgraded to 48k by a family friend so I could play the latest games lol. Same family friend also upgraded the keyboard to a proper one rather than the standard rubber one after I got the dreaded "speccy finger" one too many times.

Mate had a C64 with a 5 1/4 floppy disk drive that was /drool - you can fit how many games on a single disk?
 
cleanbluesky said:
Hello

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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?
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When we got our first computer in 1994. It was Packard Bell with Pentium 1 60Mhz, 8Mb ram, Ati Rage, 520mb hard drive :p
 
Meatball said:
When we got our first computer in 1994. It was Packard Bell with Pentium 1 60Mhz, 8Mb ram, Ati Rage, 520mb hard drive :p
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You know you're getting on a bit when you're old enough to be other forum member's dad. :p
 
Various Acorns and a BBC set me on my way in the computer world really. Infact the last acorn that I had is still in the garage, it comes out every year or 2 for a bit of a mess around....oh the memories :p
 
I used a BBC micro and occasionally an Archimedes. We were too ***** to actually own one but my old man would take them from school during the holidays. We only had bootleg games discs (the precious 5¼", so very fragile) so I grew up not knowing the real names for all the arcade classics.

Space Invaders = Arcadians
Frogger = Hopper
Jet Set Willy = Jet Pack Willy

I remember being annoyed when they tweaked the Silverstone F1 track because it no longer matched the one in REVS, a game years ahead of it's time.
 
Oh yea, we had a few Acorns nextdoor.

Used to play Simon the Sorcerer, erm, some Space shooting game? Was 3D and was great fun.

The best though (Besides moonquake)

SWIV!

Two player carnage, absolutely great fun!

And Quake 1, when he got his 486 emulator running, we could just about play it in postage stamp size :D
 
Doosht said:
Thankyou :rolleyes:
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Don't mention it.

My first hardware was a "Grandstand" TV game, hours of fun playing pong on the TV or skeet shooting big squares with the add on light gun. It was beige and brown.

First computer was a C64, still got it in the 'rents loft along with Dad's old SX64 (Anyone remember them?) that he used to do the business accounts on, 35 mins to back up a 5 1/2 inch floppy anyone?
 
Started on the Commodore 64 with and Boulderdash (my mums favourite) and Paperboy. Had ZX81 at one point for Manic Miner, Horice goes Skiing and Dizzy.

Video brought back some nice memories. :)
 
I got my Amiga1200 back from my mum's loft the other day - but the most frustrating thing is I don't have a monitor that can deal with the 15Hz horiz. output from the graphics, which all of my favourite games default to :(

I can stick in the floppies and hear the music for my beloved Populous 2 and James Pond 2, Codename: Robocod, but no image... Will have to find a scart adaptor and stick it into a telly, methinks...
 
I used BBC Bs at college in the late '80s but my first one was a good old A1200, then a couple more, then an A4000/030. I've still got 3 A1200s upstairs with a 1040 monitor.

My first IBM clone came from various sources - mobo from an auction, K7/500 as payment for babysitting, various other bits from computer fairs and friends' spares boxes - and cost about £70 about 4 years ago.
 
The family had an Atari ST, i was young, knew very little about computers so couldn't really tell you if it was the daddy back in the day.. you old people ;)
 
DJammyRasta said:
The family had an Atari ST, i was young, knew very little about computers so couldn't really tell you if it was the daddy back in the day.. you old people ;)
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No - it played second fiddle to the mighty Amiga 500 :D
 
my first was one of these beautys...

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nope, not a commodore64 - a commodore vic20! :D
 
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