What's your computing history?

[Steven W]

I used to programme for hours on the ZX81 - remember the code you used to get in magazines? It would take hours and the final result would be something really crap.

I lost my youth to football manager.

[Nox]

Commodore 64
Atari 520 STFM I think it was
Amiga A500
Amiga 4000/30
Then onto a life of PC's...

And many hours spend typing those magazine programs in, then even more hours trying to find the line with your spelling mistake...

Nox

[Deadlight]

I used to programme for hours on the ZX81 - remember the code you used to get in magazines? It would take hours and the final result would be something really crap.

Ah yes, Input magazine - remember that?

You'd spend hours typing something in, but invariably it wouldn't work because of a type or printing error!

[DavidM]

It was more fun debugging the code then typing the listings themself

(I think I learned more M/Code from getting other peoples code working properly than writing my own!)

[bennett2kuk]

I was more into my consoles when I was younger but here's my lot.
Commodore 64
NES
Game Boy
Sega Mega Drive - then got a Mega Drive 2 (pointless I know)
Sony Playstation
Inherited old 486
Had a P1 - 75mHz (This was awesome running 95)
Olivetti P2 think it was a 166
Broke that one above but they replaced it with an AST P2 200mHz
Tiny (Argh) 450mHz - hated it but it lasted for years.
AMD 3200+ with Nvidia Geforce 6600gt (actually my first seperate graphics card)
Moved onto an Xbox and now have a 360 as well.
Now I've got on order my AMD 5200+ X2 with a meaty 1gb (2x512mb) 7950 GX2.

Can't wait!

[Funkstar]

Holly thread reserection!

[bledd]

BBC Micromaster
486dx 33 8mb ram
Dell PII400 128mb ram, 8mb ati gfx
Athlon 800, 384mb, geforce 3 was a god when it came out!
Athlon XP1700@2400 -> Athlon XP-m2500@2700, 2gb ram, gfti4400
Opteron 146@2700, 2gb ram, 7900GT (with dual raptors)

since the Dell, been playing PSX, and now have a PSP

[spazman]

Spectrum ZX (was my dads first)
Amiga 500
Amiga 1200
Pentium 100mhz
Pentium 233mhz
Athlon 1Ghz
Athlon 1.6Ghz
Athlon 2.2Ghz
Current PC

Plus many games consoles in this time too

[Veles]

Very short list for me, I will be putting in consoles, because like it or not, they are computers since they do computational work.

In chronological order (I think I also still have every single one of these somewhere)

Commodore 64
SNES
Playstation
Replacement for stolen PS1
Playstation 2 (shared with my brother)
Xbox (when MS did the JSRF and Sega GT christmas deal)
P4 with a 128Mb Radeon X300 or something
X2 3800 with a 256Mb 7800GTX (current PC)
Gamecube
PS2 Slimline
PSOne (you know the smaller, cooler looking one) with screen off eBay (shared with gf)
Xbox 360
Nintendo DS

Add in somewhere the original Gamboy, not sure where I got it on that list, I think it was either before or after the SNES.

Also my first PC, a 386 with Windows 3.1 (later upgraded to 3.11!!!! or something like that), which was slowly upgraded into an AMD K6-II 400MHz with a 1Mb GFX card I think. I can't remember when I got that, it was after the PS1 and I think before the PS2, and was upgraded around the time C&C Tiberian sun was out.

My brother also had his own PS1 and xbox, also our first PS2 (bought at lauch) crapped up with the usual DRE and he replaced it, selling a ton of my games in the process just so he could play the GT4 preview thingy

Ahh good memories. I think I need to hunt around on eBay for some of the PS2 games I miss. I think summoner and red faction have to be bought. Oh red faction, you were awesome.

[Smirnoff]

ZX81 with 16k ram pack. (Monster maze was good, although loading from tapes wasn't)

ZX Spectrum (Jet set willy was funny)

Commodore Amiga....nuff said

Intel 486 (home build) complete with Win 95. (still got it....still works........just)

Dell dimension 3000. (decent budget comp)

in process of another home build

[villarule]

Amiga
SNES
PS1
P1 at 333mhz with 64mb RAM
PS2
Athlon 1900+ with 512mb RAM, 40GB hdd and integrated graphics. Upgraded to 80GB HDD and then ATi Radeon 9550.
Athlon64 3700+, 1GB RAM (Ordered 2GB Kit today ), 6600GT (Changing to 7800GTX next month ), 250GB Hard drive.

[YorkieBen]

Amiga 500+
Amiga 1200 (upgraded with hard drive)
Mesh PC (PIII, 64MB RAM (upgraded to 192MB), Matrox G400 gfx card
Carrera PC (XP 2800+, 512mb ram (upgraded to 2gb), 9800SE AIW (softmodded to pro, upgraded to X800pro then 7800GS+)#
Xbox 360

[menthel]

ZX 81
Some odd toshiba thing
MSX
c64
Atari 2600
Amiga 600
Megadrive
PC 486 dx
PC 333 celeron or some such
Gameboy
PS1
PS2
Gamecube
Gameboy advance & sp
Neo geo pocket colour
PC engine (FTW!!!!)
Various more modern PC's
Sexbox 360

So quite a few really. Been playing computer game since I was 5!

[MadduckUK]

oh god, come on memory we can do this! (in something like the right order)

Sinclair ZX spectrum
Sinclair something (GIS was no help, it was silver or light grey and as far as i remember about the size of a modern keyboard, external tape drive)
Amstrad with a greenscreen, model unknown
Amstrad with a colour screen, model also unknown
Commodore 64
486 sx 25 all other specs cant remember
486 sx2 33 500meg HDD all other specs cant remember
486 dx2 80 500meg HDD
Cyrix 133 4GB HDD 32MB RAM
Cyrx 300 2x 4GB HDD 128MB RAM Voodoo2, AWE32 Soundcard
Celeron 733 20GB + 2x4GB RAID HDD 128MB RAM Geforce 2 MX Soundblaster 128
Athlon XP 1700+ 512MB RAM 2x 20GB HDD Geforce FX4200 Soundblaster 1024 Value
Athlon XP 2500+ 1GB RAM 120GB HDD Geforce 6600gt Soundstorm
A64 X2 3800+ 1GB RAM 250GB + 120GB HDD's Geforce 7900GT, Cmedia Dolby Digital Soundcard (soundstorm lives on!!!)

Consoles!
Gameboy
NES
Atari Lynx
SNES
PS1
PS2
XBOX

WHEW

[jms45]

oh god, come on memory we can do this! (in something like the right order)

Sinclair ZX spectrum
Sinclair something (GIS was no help, it was silver or light grey and as far as i remember about the size of a modern keyboard, external tape drive)
Amstrad with a greenscreen, model unknown
Amstrad with a colour screen, model also unknown
Commodore 64
486 sx 25 all other specs cant remember
486 sx2 33 500meg HDD all other specs cant remember
486 dx2 80 500meg HDD
Cyrix 133 4GB HDD 32MB RAM
Cyrx 300 2x 4GB HDD 128MB RAM Voodoo2, AWE32 Soundcard
Celeron 733 20GB + 2x4GB RAID HDD 128MB RAM Geforce 2 MX Soundblaster 128
Athlon XP 1700+ 512MB RAM 2x 20GB HDD Geforce FX4200 Soundblaster 1024 Value
Athlon XP 2500+ 1GB RAM 120GB HDD Geforce 6600gt Soundstorm
A64 X2 3800+ 1GB RAM 250GB + 120GB HDD's Geforce 7900GT, Cmedia Dolby Digital Soundcard (soundstorm lives on!!!)

Consoles!
Gameboy
NES
Atari Lynx
SNES
PS1
PS2
XBOX

WHEW

possibly the ZX spectrum +2 128K and the amstrad CPC464 lol, damn i hated the noise from the tapes on those things.

[jms45]

ZX81
Commodore VIC20 (old thing that took cartridges)
Spectrum 48K
Spectrum 128K +2 ( James Bond pack with lightgun lol )
Commodore 64
Amiga 500+ with 512kb memory upgrade
Sega mega drive
Sega mega cd II
SNES
P1 200 MMX 64MB RAM 4gb HD Matrox Mystique + Power-VR 3D Accelerator Soundblaster AWE64 Gold
P2 400 128MB RAM 8GB HD Matrox Millenium G400 + 3DFX Voodoo 1
Duron 900 512MB RAM 20GB HD Voodoo 2 and Voodoo 5 5500
Athlon XP 1600 512MB RAM 20GB HD GeForce 2 GTS SoundBlaster Live Value
Pentium 4 2.6ghz HT 1GB RAM 80GB HD Geforce FX 5600 Ultra
Athlon64 3000+ 939 1GB RAM 2x 80GB HD Ati Radeon 9800 Pro
Athlon64 X2 3800 939 1GB RAM 2x 80GB HD Ati Radeon X850XT
Athlon64 X2 4800 AM2 1GB RAM 2x80GB HD 2x Nvidia 7600 GT

the nostalgia lol