Your earliest computer

Ok,

As a spin off from Azz's thread about his new site for oldies..sorry over 50's

Can you remember your first computer, name, model and what it did and can you remember some of the games.

I'll start.

Amstrad 464



Awsome eh

and the games:


Forest at World's end: this was an adventure game where you had to type...go left, go right, pick up stone...throw stone...Had so much fun with this....When I was stuck it was well f***k o** then and it would reply "cant do that"

Then there was Roland on the ropes, quickly followed by Roland in the caves and others


Get those graphics, but at least this one moved!!!

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That's the computer I had too

I only wanted it to play fruit machine on LOL

Did you ever try and type in code to make a game or get it to do stuff? I would sit there for hours and hours typing in

"goto> " and stuff like that with thousands of numbers. get just on dot wrong and your stuffed

He he good old Basic x

I had a Sinclair ZX Spectrum!

You mean one of these





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For SibeVibe and ClariandDaisy

This one?


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ZX81 - the first PC (apart from the ZX80 which was very buggy)
You had to load games in via a tape recorder. It took 20 minutes and if it was at the wrong volume it`d crash and you`d have to start again.
I remember O Mummy, and Monster Maze.

Yup!!! I remember it well it would sound like a fax machine and yep the volume had to be just right they did monster maze for the Amstrad too!!! loved that game

We must have had the patience of saints in them days, can you imagine it now...if a page don't load on a web site in less than 2 seconds am tut tutting

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The ZX81 had 4 main chips. the ROm, Z80A CUP, and wait for it.....1K RAM WOW!!!!!!!!!

ooh, really sad we had the one that had white sticks that hit a ball from left to right (tennis?). plugged into tv. do not remember what it was called or if it counts as a computer. also was it an amstrad with the game "chucky egg" black screen, green letters..... useless with names sorry.

We understand, it's an age thing, but I know the one your on about

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