Your first computer

[Sunny Portrush]

Was talking all things about PC`s at tea-time with my kids and my 12 yr old was astounded when I told him our first ever computer (bought in 1994) came with a massive 4mb of memory!! We even managed to up-grade it to 8 mb after a couple of years!

 

[smokeysmoo]

1 ZX Spectrum 48k, circa 1985.

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[pplpilot]

ZX81 with a 16k Ram Pak, still got it, then a C64 , still got it, then a BBC Model B still got it!!!

 

[LutherB]

Commodore 64 and one of those Amstrad green screen things!

 

[StuAff]

Commodore Vic 20 in 1982. 3.5k (later got the 16k expansion pack).

 

[TheDoctor]

Commodore Vic-20, with a mighty 5K of RAM!!

For N = 1 to 10
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[TheDoctor]

Commodore Vic 20 in 1982. 3.5k (later got the 16k expansion pack).

5K fitted, but it used 1.5k to memory map the screen, so 3.5K of user ram.

 

[welsh dragon]

Another one who had a commodore Vic 20.

 

[TheDoctor]

 

[fossyant]

Spectrum 48k. Even got it out recently, but it broke after my lad knocked the expansion pack. The old transistors didn't like it. He was most upset. Never mind.

My first PC was a 486 SX 25mhz overclocked to 33 MHz, whoooo, cost a grand with a 10mb hard drive and about 1 mb of ram I think.

Sat here on a laptop with 12GB of ram, 1TB of HD, quad core I7 at 3400ghz and a 2gb graphics card. Blooming phenomenal progress.

 

[fossyant]

Sabre Wulf, loved that.

 

[welsh dragon]

I thought my commodore was the bees knees.

 

[PaulSecteur]

ZX81... ah, the memories of painful fingers from typing in the code from the mags, and the panic of shouting "DONT CHANGE THE VOLUME!!!" whenever anyone went near the tape recorder!

 

[Nigel-YZ1]

Acorn Electron, BBC Master 128, Acorn A3000.
All still working fine, apart from needing the odd CMOS battery.
5.25" disk software goes for good money on ebay!

 

[PeteXXX]

Amstrad CPC464
42Kb RAM
32Kb ROM
With a cassette player mechanism to load stuff onto it..