Without wishing to appear a geek again or send anyone else to sleep I remember starting computing as a spotty teenager on a black n white Sinclair ZX. The blooming thing was supposed to play Asteroids using a tape and tape player but always used to crash. The colour version that came out a little later was much better.
After that I graduated to a Acorn Electron making basic programs (IF....THEN GOTO......for anyone that can remember that far back) cos I couldn't afford the more expensive option of a BBC computer but fondly remember playing the greatest space game of that era, ELITE ! Then the company collapsed and the games dried up.
In between there was the Atari 100 with game cassettes an eventually many years later I bought a Packard Bell 25 mhz Processor which I eventually upgraded to an 81 mhz Pentium with 3.1 windows.
In 1982, my parents bought us a Tandy (aka Radio Shack) TRS-80, which you could program in BASIC, and saved to cassette tape. There were a few rudimentary games we had too. We were lucky cause we got the model that had 16k RAM instead of the standard 4k RAM. Yes that is kB not MB.
Later they got various PC clones. I remember one we had for a while with a 20MB hard drive. Then the next one was a 144MHz Pentium (1) with a 1.8GB HDD, Windows 95, 16MB RAM, and a 28k modem. They still have it! Except now they have a 800MHz Duron machine too that I bought for them a few years back.
1) acorn electron ( later got the plus 1 add on. elite was one of the best games ever along with repton!)
2) spectrum 128k +2 ( integral tape )
3) atari 520stfm
4) amiga a600
5) megadrive
6) then snes
7) ps1 now ps2
9) and pentium 3 pc
My first computer was a Sharp MZ-700, I think I was six or something.
Then I did not get another until I was 16, a 286 running at 16mhz. Ermm ... then I went to College and did some computer course .... then I went to University ... computer science of all things, at which time I needed something better ... a 486sx33. Heh.. did the upgrade myself.
In between that I had a Nintendo NES system, sold that and everything so I could buy the 286, but a NES isnt a computer really is it? erm?
-- Andrew
[url=http://www.peugeot206cc.co.uk/newowners?id=429]Ex-Owner 429, now 307cc180[/url]
not much use when they a) dont make the hardware b) dont make the software.
Actually I bought a gamecube on the release day ... was some weird urge I had .. dont use it much .. i dont like computer games .. all you lot with the fangly dangly technology hehe
-- Andrew
[url=http://www.peugeot206cc.co.uk/newowners?id=429]Ex-Owner 429, now 307cc180[/url]
I remember starting computing as a spotty teenager on a black n white Sinclair ZX. The blooming thing was supposed to play Asteroids using a tape and tape player 
but always used to crash. The colour version that came out a little later was much better. 
now ps2
