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I remember in my first job (Computer Operator) I worked on a mainframe that must have measured 2mtrs wide, 6mtrs long and 2 mtrs high. It was a beast of a machine, all of 16K with an expansion machine which, again was huge, gave it a massive 24K of memory. Those were the days!

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My first was an acorn electron and i used to play snapper, froger and deredevil dennis on it lol :)


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Mr fisrt as a Amstrad CPC464 Oh the memories. Games and tapes and the only colour screen it has was different shades of green :-)


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ZX81 I built from a kit, power supply was built from parts I already had and housed in a clear plastic rear light fitting from a lorry :lol: Bought a 16K ram pack from WH Smiths. Later on I built a Maplin keyboard kit and housed it all in a homemade casing made of hardboard. Flogged it after a couple of years and got a BBC B, then a BBC Master 128, Archimedes A305(upgraded to twin floppies) then an AST PC, Hewlett Packard (crap), Medion then another Medion that I'm using now. Also got a HP laptop, the laptop's OK but the vista OS is a pile of ****

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We were very unfortunate to have a vic20...anyone remember them? about 1983 ish, soon moved to a commodore64 once realised how bobbins it was...

we broke it on purpose - sorry mum!

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We had an Atari ST with a whopping 256mb Memory!


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manchestertiling wrote:
We were very unfortunate to have a vic20...anyone remember them? about 1983 ish, soon moved to a commodore64 once realised how bobbins it was...

we broke it on purpose - sorry mum!

Yeah i remember them. I used to play on my cousins. We used to play a game called blitz (i think) were you were in a plane at top of the screen and you dropped bombs on buildings below, the idea being to flatten all the buildings so you could land the plane. Do you remenber that?


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