What's your computing history?

[DavidM]

That would be the ZX81 - the "Speccy" (ZX Spectrum) was the ZX82

[nimbu]

Hehe, I was 5-6 at the time dude, all i can remember is my dad coming home from harrods at the time with a pressy for my cousin and i was pissed as hell as i wanted one too.

[DavidM]

My second computer involved running 2 paperrounds at once to pay for... great fun :s

[LunarJetman]

Wow, just my kinda thread. For me, in order of ownership, it was:

1. Grandstand 'Astro Wars' thingy (remember those?)

2. ZX Spectrum 48k complete with 'Toilet Roll' Thermal Printer and useless Microdrive lol, think I 'upgraded' to a 128k Speccy +2 when Amstrad bought them. The one with the tape deck stuck on the side, 'proper' keyboard and 4 channel sound or something..

3. Sega Master System

4. CBM Amiga A600 (still got it, along with about 500 floppies in the loft)

5. CBM Amiga A1200 with extra Cumana floppy drive.

6. Commodore CD-32, yes I was the one guy who bought one hehe (Alien Breed with an FMV Intro WOW and remember MICROCOSM? All show, no go)

7. Panasonic 3DO (Need for Speed started here on this failed system if I remember right)

8. My first PC - ESCOM Pentium 60, 540MB HDD, 8MB RAM (yes, 8), 512k Trident SVGA GFX, 2 Speed CDROM. Cost me £1400 at the time (1995) eeeek. Windows 3.1. Couldn't stop playing 'Eye of The Beholder over and over, loved it. Doom made me queasy. Loved spending hours try to get games to work, having to make 590k of 'conventional memory' or whatever they called it, using boot disks. Agh, those were the days

9. Upgraded above PC with new mobo, 233Mz Petium, with MMX! WOW lol.... 4mb 3DFX card and 64mb RAM (I remember that cost something like £300 alone)

10. SEGA Dreamcast (Still got a couple, along with loads of games, a great "pick up and play for 10 mins" type of system)

11. XBOX & PS2 but sold them soon after, kept going back to my PC

12. Many upgrades to PC, ended up with my system shown on the left, which is starting to show its age in some areas again.

Tempted by an XBOX 360, but dunno if I should wait to check out the PS3 or the new Nintendo one, forget what it is called......

Would probably always go back to my PC in the end, they are so versatile....

Regards, Mark

[DavidM]

Microdrives where more fun if you where dabbling with networking with 2 x interface ones... I remember helping set up a couple of networks with this... very advanced in its way (but the Disciple interface was much, much better!)

[Ravens Nest]

Here's my list..
8 bit
Acorn electron 32K
ZX Spectrum 128K +2

16bit
Amiga 500 (With 512K ram upgrade)
Amiga 1200 (with 80mb HD)

32bit (I think)
AST 'Advantage' 486DX2 66Mhz 8MB RAM 14" monitor. 2x cd-rom drive
Database computers 486DX4 133mhz 16MB RAM (Old monitor from last PC)
Redhouse Pentium 200mhz MMX 64MB RAM S3 virge 15" monitor (Then 3dfx Voodoo and matrox mystique video cards)
Athlon "Thunderbird core" Socket A 900mhz 512 RAM GF1-GF3-GF4-then Radeon 9700np
Athlon "not sure what core" Socket A 2ghz 1GB RAM Radeon 9700np-9800pro

64bit (Current PC)
Athlon64 3ghz "Venice core" 2GB RAM Radeon X800XT 256MB PCI-E

[Elessar_VPR]

ZX Spectrum
Amstrad CPC-464
Amstrad CPC-6128 (Go Dizzy!!! )

Trust 486 DX100 (Settlers!!!........shame about III onwards)

Tiny Pentium III 450Mhz
Pentium 4 - 2.4Ghz Northwood (upgraded the Geforce 4MX420 it came with to an X800Pro Vivo and bumped up the RAM to a decent amount)

Looking to switch to the M2 socket when it comes out................ and I have the money, as will basically need a whole new system!

[99Flake]

Amiga A500 (then I put in a 512K upgrade a few years later) Greatest machine ever.
Amiga CD32
SNES
N64
GameCube
Gameboy
Gameboy Advance
Master System
Game Gear
Mega Drive
Saturn
Dreamcast
PSX (Jap import)
PS2
XBox

Pentium 133, 32Mb, 1.3Gb HDD, upgraded with a Diamond Monster a year or two later
Pentium 400, 128Mb, 13Gb HDD, SLI Diamond Monster 2's later a Savage 4 Pro then a Voodoo 5 5500
Athlon 1000 Thunderbird 256Mb 20Gb GeForce 2
Athlon XP2000+ 256Mb 20Gb, GeForce 3Ti 200
Dual Athlon MP2000 512Mb registered, 20Gb, with above GeForce
Dual Athlon MP2800 1024Gb registered, 100Gb, Radeon 9600 Pro 128Mb
P4 3000 (64 bit 2Mb cache version), 1024Gb DDR2, 160Gb HDD, Radeon X800 GTO (Current)
Toshiba Satellite A30-921, P4 2.8, 512Mb, 40Gb HDD, 128Mb (shared) Radeon Mobility 9000. (Current)
Intel Celeron 533, 256Mb, 80Gb HDD, 32Mb ATI AIW Rage 128. (In car PC)

PC's are in Chronological order and the A500 was my 1st machine, as for the consoles, most were bought when they came out but a few were bought after newer ones i.e the Master System, just because I didn't have one. Most PC's were latest and greatest except my P4 I have now. I needed a new machine and have given up on the whole needing the latest PC.

[dangel]

Commodore PET
Dragon 32
Spectrum
BBC B
Amstrad CPC 464
Amiga A500
Amiga B2000
Amiga 1500
Amiga A1200
Amiga A3000
CD32
Then boring PC stuff for many years..
XBOX

[DavidM]

I still think the Apple II was more fun than the PET

(The CAD stuff was incredible for the time!)

[Deadlight]

....
Amiga 1500

'Yours' in the loosest possible sense mate! Read 'The 1500 that Deadlight donated to our BBS'!

[Workaholic]

Atair ST (great console and games...)
Atari 7200 (original cartrige)
Atari Lynx
Atari Jaguar
Amiga 520 (I think!)
Commodore
Game Boy (original)

I still have a few of these at home too.....

[ahat]

Commodore 64 (BASIC programming of course)
NES
Sega Genesis
Game Gear
Super Nintendo
Old PII PC
Athalon PC
P4 PC
iBook
Pentium M laptop

now, its old thinkpad with Ubuntu. woot!

[j.o.s.h.1408]

Well my first ever PC was a Viglan 486 running windows 3.1 and had 8mb of ram

Than i upgraded and got a PC from Tiny and as i remember i had 128mb running windows 98..

the consoles i had where:

first Nintendo
Sega megadrive (my fav console)
N64
Dreamcast(better than ps2/xbox IMO)
Playstaion 2(only got it because dreamcast past away )
Xbox(waste of money)

[Workaholic]

I quote from the first post:

What's your computing history?
No games consoles here folks!

[Deadlight]

Exactly!