Oldest computer?

[cackles]

Matel Aquarius with Burgertime cartridge, ah yes ... ended up programming a running man into it.

Dunno the year, prolly about 83/84.

[jaychurch]

Spectrum 48k+ no rubber keypad i thought it was the dogs danglies at the time its still at my mum's

[jin799]

I had Amstrad cpc 464.... the cassette version !!!1

[TheCoder]

First one I owned (part owned) was probably a SWTPc 6800. Kit form

2K of Rom for a the Mikbug/SWTPbug monitor program and 8k of RAM (cost a fortune for the 8k) for whatever you wanted to load. Loading done via the paper tape unit of a 110baud teletype unit (no affordable video in them days).

Used to take nearly 45 minutes to load a 4k basic interpreter from paper tape before you could actually use the thing. I did build a 300/600baud cassete interface for it eventually though.

Used it for a good number of years before replacing with a Research Machines 380Z (Z80 processor) which had the luxury of a video interface and a 5.25" floppy drive

[kadnor]

Hi, Very interesting and good memories.

I bought one on Oxford Street shop around 1976/ 79, the brand is
a BBC ACORN ,a casette tape recorder has to be attached. It is still lying on the shelves behind me. A friend even wrote a program for me
for storing horse race results in UK.(end use a data base)

There is much evolution now, have you read any cpu with a P5 or P6 motherboard with an Extreme ca[pability ( not for games but for
Statistics & Probability jobs).I wish to keep in touch with the latest, more performing type.

Where is your location . I am at 57.5* East 20.2* South in the Indian Ocean .close to Madagascar ( MAURITIUS)

Thanks for the attention you will give to my query.
Best Wishes,
Yours respectfully,

kadnor

Originally Posted by charlie1966

What was your first computer?
Mine was the Commodore Vic 20 with its 3.5k of ram and a cassette tape recorder for data storage. You have never waited like you would for one of these to load a file, but programming was easy(relatively). Cant remember the year I got it and I still have it somewhere, buried under everything else I should have thrown out.

[the insaan]

spectrum 48k, i had 2 of these, one with rubber keys and one larger one without rubber keys, which i have nerver seen anywhere else.

i used to love manic miner and jetset willy

[RoRo]

My dad had a Dragon 32 in 1983/84 which he couldn't get me off.
(not much changed over the years lol)
Thing I hated about it was, getting magazines with free games with the only downside being having to type in the programming.
syntax error line 598 and subsequent errors in the program etc.. etc..which usually didn't work in the end anyway ARRRGGHH!!!
Funny, I still have the Dragon 32 with it's games and I rigged it up a couple of years ago for a nostalgia trip, and it still worked!

[cockneysean]

Originally Posted by the insaan

i used to love manic miner and jetset willy

ftw!!!

[hethemlrijk]

god im too young for alot of this. i had a c64 an amiga A1200 (x2 one with what i beielve was a 100MB HDD) and master system etc.

i am only 18 though. so its quite passable really

[djbones]

BBC Micro Model B 32k, it still works and is regularly used to play 'Elite'