dawson Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 What was and when was your first 'computer'? Mine was a BBC Model B circa 1983 (maybe for my 10th birthday). It was just like this: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+RonC Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 Commodore Vic 20 then an Amstrad with a monitor! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teslar Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 BBC Model B because the company I worked for made them in the run up to Christmas one year we had a 40ft trailer outside and we filled it up during the week and it was collected by a driver every Friday morning. How that trailer never got stolen was beyond me. It certainly would be nowadays. Needless to say security is much stricter now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dawson Posted July 25, 2013 Author Share Posted July 25, 2013 Where were they made? What city? Mine came from debenhams in nuneaton. Odd place to buy a computer i know! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geezanova Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 Mine was a ZX Spectrum 48k. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Fluke Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 It was probably 1984 or 85 and I was hoping for a Dragon 32 for christmas but my parents got me a Spectrum 48k rubber key job instead. Good call Mum & Dad! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Eddy Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 Some sort of amstrad, still in the loft Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geezanova Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 Some sort of amstrad, still in the loft I have an Amiga, still in the loft and with loads of boxed games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perkil8r Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 (edited) My first computer after my abacus was a Sinclair ZX81 with a whole 1K of memory. Edited July 25, 2013 by Perkil8r Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Kheldar Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 ZX81, taught myself to code at the tender age of 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheila Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 bbc one for me, then the original compaq portable...... huge brick weighing bout 8 kgs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+RonC Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 I remember paying £45 for an extra 4K of RAM for the Vic 20 !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brantuk Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 My first personally owned computer was a Texas Instruments TInnn - but I also had a lab full of 16 Amstrads, another lab full of 20 BBC computers, and a techi room with one or two each of everything else, Olivetti, IBM, etc pc's as well as several labs with big servers and networks Sun, Apollo, PDP8, PDP11, etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teslar Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 Where were they made? What city? Mine came from debenhams in nuneaton. Odd place to buy a computer i know! They were built in Kelso Scotland by a company called Keltek. We went on to make the Acorn also. Happy days of a boom industry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daz Type-R Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 Atari 800XL, best day ever when my dad upgraded from a tape drive to a 5.5" floppy disk drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daz Type-R Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 Still have all of it in the loft! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perkil8r Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 Atari 800XL, best day ever when my dad upgraded from a tape drive to a 5.5" floppy disk drive. That was my 2nd one, followed by ST520 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Tweedledum Posted July 26, 2013 Share Posted July 26, 2013 Put together nascom 1 in 1977 (!) though first proper pc was Apple IIe which cost £1300 in 1981 with a massive 48k and two floppies!.. Like Kim, had a room full of kit, and developers writing code for the early games industry. Tom, went for an interview with Keltec in the mid 90's when they were implementing an erp system, don't know what happened to them since. Met a Tom, was it you???. Love kelso been back a few times, hate the cobbles! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teslar Posted July 26, 2013 Share Posted July 26, 2013 (edited) Could well have been me we morphed into an American company called Plexus Edited July 26, 2013 by Teslar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philjay Posted July 26, 2013 Share Posted July 26, 2013 Sinclair Spectrim + the one with the proper querty keyboard, posh eh. Bought from Dixons with tape and 10 games Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rusty Strings Posted July 27, 2013 Share Posted July 27, 2013 Spectrum 48k, then a Commodore 64. Oh how I loved loading stuff on cassette. Then a 386 laptop that BT lent me when I worked for a living. Then many years building a succession of PC's until finally saw the light and got a mac. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BAZ Posted July 27, 2013 Share Posted July 27, 2013 A Spectrum 48k. Now that taught you patience, god that cassette drive took for ever. I tried to put in my own program once, I came close to becoming an alcoholic that night, nine hours later and it lost all data. Happy day's! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cosmic dave Posted July 28, 2013 Share Posted July 28, 2013 Lol we had one zx81 when I was at school. I never actually used a computer at school. I know im a dinosaur Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest endure Posted July 29, 2013 Share Posted July 29, 2013 I started out with a ZX81. Finished up running a workshop for a distributor in Poole where we fixed everything from Atari STs thru Beebs and Amigas to Amstrads. Using soldering irons too! None of this board swapping nonsense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dawson Posted July 29, 2013 Author Share Posted July 29, 2013 What's a soldering iron? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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