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squirrel_hunter · 08-10-15, 07:28 PM

Atari 520 ST FM. My Dad bought it for the family for Christmas with the money he got from the demutualisation of the Abbey National. I did some very basic BASIC on it before failing to get to grips with STOS. But it was enough to give me an appreciation for the byte. Played lots of game on that machine and it still exists somewhere in the family home. I maintain to this day that the greatest computer ever made was the Atari 520 and it help set me on the career path I'm on still.

kaivalagi · 09-10-15, 05:52 AM

BBC Model B at home first with tape drive then with a 5 1/4 floppy

Learnt BBC basic and played far too much chuckie egg and elite

Now playing Elite Dangerous on the Pc

09-10-15, 10:24 AM

ZX80, ZX81, Commodore 16, BBC Micro, Spectrum +2...

Red ones · 09-10-15, 05:08 PM

ZX81 1k (yes, 1k until we built the 16k expansion module that didn't crash every 5 minutes)
Then Amstrad CPC664
Amstrad PCW8256

then moved on to IBM Aptiva with Intel 486,

Since then the worlds my oyster:
I now have 2x iPhones, iPad2 and 2 mini iPads and a touch screen laptop thing, which I think means I now have 160 million times as much computing memory than the ZX81 had when it was new.

Heorot · 09-10-15, 06:45 PM

Like Timwilky, my first commercial programming was on a GEC 4082, in my case in 1980. I was programming in Cobol using a really buggy compiler although I did write some programs before that on a Commodore PET. On the GEC machine, we used green screen monitors with a fixed keyboard and the editor was a botched version of the ICL George editor.

dirtydog · 09-10-15, 09:54 PM

Erm does a spectrum 48k count as a computer? If not then the first computer we had at home would've been the Atari 520 stfm. Was actually my brothers, he bought it with his first couple of pay cheques when he worked for Olivetti.
I only ever played games on it like Elite and test drive

Sir Trev · 10-10-15, 10:49 AM

The first machines at my school were the Commodore Pets, then they splashed out on a (yes, just one) BBC Micro. As I did not take the fledgling computer studies CSE I was not allowed to use them... My brother got an Acorn Electron at about the time I went to college where we also used Electrons in our maths and stats module with very basic spreadsheets.

Balky001 · 10-10-15, 12:43 PM

I think it was ZX81, Apple II and BBC Acorn, then BBC model B at school but only a few people did computer skills.

My first home computer was a Dragon 32.

daveangel · 10-10-15, 04:25 PM

My cousin's ZX81 was the first.
Vaguely remember the school computers in the mid '80s
Slight thread drift but still have the little brown fold open 'Donkey Kong' game and the bigger 'Donkey Kong Jnr' that runs on 2 'C' type doorbell batteries! Occasionally it comes out the loft for nostalgia and check it still works . .

Richie · 10-10-15, 04:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bluepete

Reading this makes me realise how old we all are on this forum!

Pete

was just thinking the very same Pete.

my Zx-81 had the JRS 48K ram pack

and the Amiga 500 had a 200Mb HDD

Fav Game was Shadow of the Beast 1 and 2

08-10-15, 07:28 PM	#31
squirrel_hunter Member Mega Poster Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Sunny Swindon Posts: 3,570	Re: What was the first computer you ever used? Atari 520 ST FM. My Dad bought it for the family for Christmas with the money he got from the demutualisation of the Abbey National. I did some very basic BASIC on it before failing to get to grips with STOS. But it was enough to give me an appreciation for the byte. Played lots of game on that machine and it still exists somewhere in the family home. I maintain to this day that the greatest computer ever made was the Atari 520 and it help set me on the career path I'm on still. __________________ "A little enthusiastic?" May I add here, GG is awesome and I think I am in love with Stretchie...he rocks my world! SH2 \| 2MA \| GROM \| YSR

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09-10-15, 10:24 AM	#33
Grinch Guest Posts: n/a	Re: What was the first computer you ever used? ZX80, ZX81, Commodore 16, BBC Micro, Spectrum +2...

09-10-15, 05:08 PM	#34
Red ones Member Mega Poster Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Hertfordshire Posts: 1,422	Re: What was the first computer you ever used? ZX81 1k (yes, 1k until we built the 16k expansion module that didn't crash every 5 minutes) Then Amstrad CPC664 Amstrad PCW8256 then moved on to IBM Aptiva with Intel 486, Since then the worlds my oyster: I now have 2x iPhones, iPad2 and 2 mini iPads and a touch screen laptop thing, which I think means I now have 160 million times as much computing memory than the ZX81 had when it was new.

09-10-15, 06:45 PM	#35
Heorot Member Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: South Norfolk Posts: 341	Re: What was the first computer you ever used? Like Timwilky, my first commercial programming was on a GEC 4082, in my case in 1980. I was programming in Cobol using a really buggy compiler although I did write some programs before that on a Commodore PET. On the GEC machine, we used green screen monitors with a fixed keyboard and the editor was a botched version of the ICL George editor. __________________ Some say the cup is half empty, while others say it is half full. However, both are wrong; the real problem is the cup is too big. Honda 125 CG blown engine Gone to the great mechanic in the sky Naked SV650 K3 in Silver Last edited by Heorot; 09-10-15 at 06:47 PM.

09-10-15, 09:54 PM	#36
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10-10-15, 10:49 AM	#37
Sir Trev Member Mega Poster Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: High Wycombe, where the chair factories used to be Posts: 1,440	Re: What was the first computer you ever used? The first machines at my school were the Commodore Pets, then they splashed out on a (yes, just one) BBC Micro. As I did not take the fledgling computer studies CSE I was not allowed to use them... My brother got an Acorn Electron at about the time I went to college where we also used Electrons in our maths and stats module with very basic spreadsheets. __________________ We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town, BEEP BEEP!

10-10-15, 12:43 PM	#38
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