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Started off with the good old ZX81.
I still have my Amiga 1200, and it still works (mostly - I need to track down a replacement internal floppy drive for it).
Powered it up last year in fact - I have a VGA adaptor for it (and a 68040 accelerator card, with a whole 8 Megabytes of RAM!)
I had to adapt a PC PSU to power all that stuff - the poor old original Commodore PSU brick just couldn't cope with the power demands
I still have my Amiga 1200, and it still works (mostly - I need to track down a replacement internal floppy drive for it).
Powered it up last year in fact - I have a VGA adaptor for it (and a 68040 accelerator card, with a whole 8 Megabytes of RAM!)
I had to adapt a PC PSU to power all that stuff - the poor old original Commodore PSU brick just couldn't cope with the power demands
First computer I played with was 8080 logic gate with output to 8 digit led display. The a Demon (can't remember who made them) which used marked cards to program. Then up to the Exidy Sorcerer then TRASH-80. I still have in my collection an Apple IIE, Apple II europlus, Mac Classic, Mac LC, Commodore 64, and 2 Amiga 500s (1 with AGA chipset, 1.3/2.04 rom switcher and 4MB ram expansion) .
Yes. Spent hours typing programs in the TRS-80 from magazines and writing my own in an exercise book to type in later.
Pong was where it was at! I vaguely remember the paddle controller things.
The only way I could get games for my TI99-4a
Me Too A ZX80.
and to make matters worse I still have it with its iK of memeory
Ahh the good old days.
and to make matters worse I still have it with its iK of memeory
Ahh the good old days.
i think my first was a Signetics 2650 chip and a whole bunch of other stuff i had to solder together myself, it had about 4k of ram iirc
i remember paying $250 for a 512k ram expansion for my Amiga A500 and thinking it was a good deal
i also remember my first hard drive, 20 whole megabytes - and thinking "wow, i'll never fill this up!"
i remember paying $250 for a 512k ram expansion for my Amiga A500 and thinking it was a good deal
i also remember my first hard drive, 20 whole megabytes - and thinking "wow, i'll never fill this up!"
Hell ya, and they didnt run because I was so stupid to type also every line number into my code
10, 20, 30 ...Hell ya, and they didnt run because I was so stupid to type also every line number into my code
And I thought it was because there were errors in the code
Astro Wars! I had that, I think my parents played it almost as much as (or possibly more than) I did though!
I know they certainly beat it before I did, and I didn't believe them - although they told me the end sequence...and when I got there myself I knew it was true (plays the tune 8 times in a row).
We had a neighbour hard-wire the power cable though, because the one that came with the game had a habit of falling out at critical moments.
-- Pete.
RAM pack wobble... that is all