Fon Posted October 27, 2016 Share Posted October 27, 2016 Mine, Vic 20, It used to take about 40 mins to load a descent game from tape, and half the time it would corrupt! Then I had an Atari 800XL The luxury of having a disc! and Cartridge were glorifying! Fon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chizh Posted October 27, 2016 Share Posted October 27, 2016 ZX81 borrowed from a family friend followed by 16k Spectrum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daz2905 Posted October 27, 2016 Share Posted October 27, 2016 ZX81 and Atari 600 XL . My dad got me the ZX81 for Christmas but didn't realise you needed a tape recorder so i had to wait 5 months until my birthday for a tape recorder. Was worth the wait, the games were awesome in my 12 year old mind. The atari was my dream gaming pc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snuffs99 Posted October 27, 2016 Share Posted October 27, 2016 Commodore PET that i loved to use for Qbert Also had an Olivetti M20 that i used for write, draw etc...used to have to use about 3-4 5 1/4 floppies to load DOS and then you could load the very basic programs using another 3-4 floppies. But also had a commodore C16/plus 4 that i loved learning BASIC on and for playing games...liek the Vic 20 it took forever to load most of them and most would fail to load. I had the floppy drive that half the size size of a briefcase and the dot matrix printer that was the size of a small fridge. All my mates had the sinclair zx spectrum though....my parents had a habit of buying me totally different stuff than my mates. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scorpion Posted October 27, 2016 Share Posted October 27, 2016 Did you also have a betamax video machine? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snuffs99 Posted October 27, 2016 Share Posted October 27, 2016 LMFAO, believe it or not my dad actually had about 30 betamax video players in the garage for years, he gambled the wrong way as VHS took the crown. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hippie Posted October 27, 2016 Share Posted October 27, 2016 Another Vic 20 owner here (with the 3.5k expansion pack that enabled it to render circles on-screen lol) Everyone else had a speccy tho so I saved up and "upgraded" to a Spectrum Plus in about 1985 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitchb Posted October 27, 2016 Share Posted October 27, 2016 C16 and speccy 128k +2a , which was a painas a few games would play on the +2 but not the +2a Snuffs pic of the c16 really takes me back Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scorpion Posted October 27, 2016 Share Posted October 27, 2016 Look up TECHMOAN on YouTube if you fancy many videos of old tech, he does new stuff too - but the old gear reviews are rather good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snuffs99 Posted October 27, 2016 Share Posted October 27, 2016 C16 and speccy 128k +2a , which was a painas a few games would play on the +2 but not the +2a Snuffs pic of the c16 really takes me back Icicle works and fire ant were great games on the C16...pole possition was good too but the first two mentioned were epic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frostyjack Posted October 27, 2016 Share Posted October 27, 2016 ZX81 then Atari 800XL 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tpolm Posted October 27, 2016 Share Posted October 27, 2016 Vic 20 then Spectrum +2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ktv303 Posted October 27, 2016 Share Posted October 27, 2016 Had a zx but was way too young so Lego and action man was more my thing.....still is sometimes haha sent from my phone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoponbaby Posted October 28, 2016 Share Posted October 28, 2016 Spectrum 16k with a 32k ram pack as they'd sold out of 48k then a spectrum +2a Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Spark Posted October 28, 2016 Share Posted October 28, 2016 ZX81 then ZX Spectrum I actually learnt ZX80 coding on those machines... Those were the days ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tuff_enuff_toft Posted October 28, 2016 Share Posted October 28, 2016 Acorn Electron and Commodore Vic20 (realised the Vic20 was crap, so upgraded to a Commodore 64 and still have it in storage somewhere) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnner Posted October 28, 2016 Share Posted October 28, 2016 ZX Spectrum...then onto Commodore 64....Used to be very useful programming magazine back then called " Input ",with loads of code to try out...I really learned a lot from it.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jakdos Posted October 28, 2016 Share Posted October 28, 2016 Assuming we are not including consoles, the BBC 'B' with 32K RAM followed by P75 Windows 95 machine donkey's years later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitchb Posted October 29, 2016 Share Posted October 29, 2016 C16 and speccy 128k +2a , which was a painas a few games would play on the +2 but not the +2a Snuffs pic of the c16 really takes me back Icicle works and fire ant were great games on the C16...pole possition was good too but the first two mentioned were epic. Played pole position but don't recall those other 2 Tutti frutti and xzap were were my favs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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