Nascom.

1k RAM

Z80 CPU.

Casette to load in data (you sould see the data loading on screen byte at a time).

Monitor? Nah - telly!

No-one else remember Nascom? They were poised to take over the home PC world before the home PC world even existed then couldn't get hold of some component they needed and it went horribly wrong. :-(

Where's me zimmer frame? <g>

Rob - oldie newbie.

Hmmm, apologies for the double post. Clicked twice by accident.

my first pc is a plll i buyed 2 years ago but the first i play games with was from my friends and was a spectrum 48k and at the time i liked a lot and i think if it was today i would love it to, the games were loaded from a small tape recorder and it take about 15 to load a game and many times the games didn´t work .

I believe it was a Dick Smith 80. It was a kit computer that a friends step dad built. It had a Z80 processor, god knows how little memory, a vga modulator, and you had to load it's instructions by tape. Still, I thought it was awesome at the time(1981). I remember taking two or three hours typeing in games out of a big book I had only to find they would'nt work properly cause they were written for an Altair 8800 or something. I also remember taking ten or more hours stuffing around getting them to work. Did that for a few years until they stopped making things for it. Can't complain though, gave me a good grounding for Linux!

Radio shack 386 sx 25Mhz with 2 honkin' Megs of non upgradeable ram. Round about 5 years ago. Couldn't even add a modem.


(Pssst I am 40 , got started kinda late)

I was wondering if anyone else remembered the old Trash 80s. My first computer was a Tandy Color Computer 2, when I was 4. I think it had 32k of RAM and I never managed to use it all.

Then four years later my mom bought a Mac SE and it was BIG news because it had a whole megabyte of RAM!!

Now here I am plodding along on my system that won't recognize more than 512 MB of RAM. :-P

A friend of mine; actually, the guy whose house my server lives in, has a Trash80 we played with for a few hours this past Winter. It lives in the closet now, which is actually a place of honour in that 12x12 room with 8 machines including the IBM Baby-36. Oh... and I can't look up who asked if the baby-36 had IBM winchesters in it. I don't think so; definately top down IBM, but the drives were all serial numbers with no singular designation.

Cheers,

Finegan

that trash80 i used to have had BASIC and nothing more except for a few silly blip games... it really was a work of art

My 1st computer was an AMD 486DX4 at 120MHz, 4MB RAM, 850 MB HDD, home made. December 1994. Next a Pentium at 100MHz and 32MB RAM with a new 2GB HDD, and now the same Pentium but at 200MHZ, 64MB RAM and a new (again) 6GB HDD.
I hope in a major upgrade in short time ...

I am totally amazed at how fast pc's and components get cheaper and cheaper... i was using a 200mmx with 32 mb ram and 3.76GB hd... that cost me with 15" monitor-- 360$ as old in 2000 i think... a couple of months ago i bought one of these things yu see on the internet... let me give yu a sysinfo on it real quick:

os[Linux 2.4.8-26mdk - Mandrake Linux release 8.1 (Vitamin) for i586] up[3 hours, 35 minutes] cpu[Celeron (Coppermine), 731.129 MHz (1458.17 bogomips)] mem[173.06/185.62 MB (93.2%)] video[Intel Corporation 82810 CGC [Chipset Graphics Controller] (rev 3). at 1024x768 (16 bits)]

and it cost me the same ($360 with 17"(!) monitor)

i bought it from computer-geeks and it works fantastic... still though i am even more amazed at reports of how you can get a lot of mileage from a 486 witha linux distro...(with gui lacking but in my neck of the woods a 486 with monitor at 25$ is a steal!)

oops forgot: 30GB HD and CD-RW

Next time up you might want to try out these jokers.. The prices don't beat pricewatch, but they get really close, especially since you can skip shipping. They're in Tucker, GA. There's also Kevin Computer in Atlanta and Microseconds out in Roswell for good cheap used gear like 3Com NICs and PC66 SDRAM, 5 Gb Hard Drives and whatnot for the ballpark of $5-$20.

Cheers,

Finegan

monarch- ive been to see those guys... they have all the latest stuff (i think their new gear is too expensive) but they do have a good deal of some older stuff they will sell from time to time...

yeah microseconds is where im planning on buying this...this...this...thing(!) a p133 64mb (edo, of course), 1GB hd but the kicker of it is that is has 2 usb ports (which i need because i have a lousy usb dsl modem)... last i checked they were selling it at 70$ w/monitor (although it was a 14" vga only)... a total wretch of a machine --probably not even worthy of X... but hopefully it will make a nice router

ZX81, with 16k upgrade pack (yup, that was an upgrade)

It crashed if you hit the keys too hard, and thereby taught me a valuable lesson in temper control when programming. . .

My first computer was an Apple Macintosh LC. ( 1992..I'm only 17 y.o.. almost 18 though )

Actually a bit of fun history here.
As many know was Mac LC a 16MHz computer, and all that nice stuff.
We ( My farther an I ) was very lucky at the time we bought it.

When the powerbooks first was introduces did MacWorld hold a few compititions where you could win one. All you had to do was to send in a number at your computer, which where standing at the side of the cabinet.
We couldn't find one, so we kept looking, and did finally find a very long number.
We wrote that number to them, and about a month later did they reply.
Congratulations. You have one of the only 3 Mothermachines of Macintosh LC in the world. The 2 others are placed other places in the world.... and so on. They ended something like, "if you look deeper into the machine will you find many good tweaks".

And we did indeed find some good things. We where having a CPU speed at 50MHz (49,99), and other stuff.. not as good as that, but more.

hehe.. that was real nice.


Any.. it kind of sadness me to hear that your kids don't know what an Apple Macintosh is. After all.. it could look like they are winning back at the marked... not to the top, but atleast further.
If your kids are interrested in computers.. I think you should inlight them, and perhaps even let them work with one.


-Daxziz