What's your computing history?

[DavidM]

Daley Thompson - the first black gaming hero, who appeared white in most of the versions....

That would be Supertest 128 I guess? The Cheetah 125 was a nice stick ...

[DavidM]

Not many at all really..

One of those really old laptop style PCs with orange screens, don't know the name.

Sounds like an Apricot system...

[Moby-Dick]

It was supertest - part of a a bundle with the neverending story that Dixons supplied

was the 125 the one with the steel shatf - the plastic shafted ones where useless !!

[Xaneden]

Pentium MMX 166mhz, ATi Rage Pro 'DVD' PCI, 64mb RAM, 2gb HDD.
Pentium 4 2.0ghz, 512mb SDRAM, 60gb HDD, GeForce 2 MX400
Pentium M 1.7ghz Banias, 1gb SDRAM, 60gb HDD, ATi M10 128mb PT.

Not many compared to you lot... I'm an Intel lad at heart.

[XA04]

Brothers computers when I was VERY young... Amiga, Sinclair.. erm, some old Win95 pc?
Acorn computers at Primary School.
Home Family computer (450mhz, 64mb ram, 8mb graphics card, some other stuff)
My Computer now (1.7ghz, 768mb ram, MSI KT3V, Radeon 9800 pro 128mb, etc).

[shaithis]

- ZX81 1k 3D Monster maze was tops
Then got a 16k memory expansion....

- ZX Spectrum 16k (Rubber keys) which got upgraded to 48k

- Commodore 64 which later got treated to a 3.5" FDD!

- Atari ST STFM (original)

- Amiga A500 which ended up with a 40MB RocHard HDD, 4MB RAM (1MB Chip RAM onboard, 1MB Chip RAM in exp slot and 2MB Fast RAM in HDD enclosure) and an official Monitor.

and then in 1991 I bought a PC - AMD 386 40MHz with 60MB HDD.....from there its been a blur...

[Deadlight]

I was told that if you turned a speecy 128 over, the keys fell out! Was that true?

Ahhh, those were the days of Crash! magazine...and Your Spectrum - which begat The One..which begat PC Zone.

[Mutley]

o ZX-81. Learned BASIC programming on it. 1K programming was always fun...!
o VIC-20. What a great machine. Zork was a favourate
o Commodore 64. Got everything for this - Commodore monitor, commodore dot matrix printer (boy was that noisy), 5.25" floppy drive (noisy too)...
o Atari ST-FM. Added more RAM, and did some soldering surgery on it, but can't remember why.
o Amiga 500
o 386sx with 4Mb RAM! rock and roll
o AMD 486DX4 100! This got upgraded to can't remember what.
o Some pentium or other...
o Dell XPS Pentium III 750.
o Which had its guts ripped out and turned into a Pentium 4 2.0ghz (clocked to 2.5)
o Next machine - next year...who knows?

[Mutley]

I was told that if you turned a speecy 128 over, the keys fell out! Was that true?

Ahhh, those were the days of Crash! magazine...and Your Spectrum - which begat The One..which begat PC Zone.

No no no! ZAP!64 That was the magazine to have. If you had a *decent* computer that is.

[Deadlight]

Ah yes, the old 'Speccy VS Commmie 64' battle. To be replaced with 'ST vs Amiga' and then 'Microsoft Vs The World'.

[DavidM]

- ZX81 1k 3D Monster maze was tops
Then got a 16k memory expansion....

Nope, it was definately a 16K game

(about 4-5k of code I think...)

[DavidM]

No no no! ZAP!64 That was the magazine to have. If you had a *decent* computer that is.

Nah - the ZZAP64 editorial team smelled...

[DavidM]

I was told that if you turned a speecy 128 over, the keys fell out! Was that true?

Probably happened a few times... never on the 128's I had though.... strangely enough anyone I knew with an Amstrad based 128K had keyboard problems.. unlike owners of the pre-Amstrad Spectrum 128

Ahhh, those were the days of Crash! magazine...and Your Spectrum - which begat The One..which begat PC Zone.

Crash still inspires a lot of people... some of the Newsfield team work around the industry still - and a few Retro mags have used Oli Freys artwork many times.... YS was the only other magazine to come close.

[Mutley]

Nah - the ZZAP64 editorial team smelled...

Only a bit! They did have very bad hair though.

[siuron]

AST 486 DX2 66, 8MB memory, few hundred MB HDD, CDROM
Advent Celeron 400, 64MB memory, ATI rage 8MB, DVDrom
Duron 650 with gforce2 mx
Duron 1Ghz with gforce 4 ti4200
AMD XP 2400 with gforce 4 ti4200
AMD XP 2500@3200 with 9800 pro
AMD 64 3000@4000 with X800XT

[nimbu]

Cousins Speccy ZX 81
BBC Model B
Amstrad 464 (I think)
IBM PS/2 (386sx 25 with 4Mb of RAM)
486 DX2 66

After that I started working in computing, and the number of PC's Ive had, well lets just say we would be here a long time.....