Attached Link: http://oldcomputers.net/index.html

Thought some of you would like to see where you stand on historys timeline concerning your computer careers throughout the years. Check down the left sidebar to find your computer.

Message edited on: 04/04/2005 02:33

If have:

1 of these
http://oldcomputers.net/zx80.html

2 of these, with a 16 and even a 64k memory :)
http://oldcomputers.net/zx81.html

A whole army of Spectrum's and a Sinclair QL, CBM 64, Amiga's (a 500 and a 2000), MSXes, a steampowerd 386 laptop. And lets not forget, 2 very r@re Sam Coupe computers.

Message edited on: 04/04/2005 03:18

Well this brings back memories!

As does this, this is the first I actually owned!

I had a spectrum 56k or something like that. looked a lot like gog's last pic :)

Here is a list of what I have off the top of my head. Atari 2600, Coleco Vision, NES, Sega Genesis, Commodore 64 / 64C, Atari 1040ST / 1040STE, Amiga 2000HD. I regret selling my SNES & Amiga 1000 a while back. I'm heavily into the Emulation Scene, I have a lot of C64 and Amiga Floppys that I need to convert into a format to run inside emulation but I never seem to have time to do it. I own an Arcade Cabinet that I'm converting into a M.A.M.E Unit (Multi.Arcade.Machine.Emulator) but it will be easily reversable if necessary. Reason being Original Arcade Cabients are not made anymore and it would be a shame to destroy it.

I had these babies...Wow! Check out those graphic potentials!

We had one of these in the engineering department.

ahhh

I have one of these babies at home - the Vectrex from 1982

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I had one of these, A Franklin Ace 500. It was the same thing as a Apple IIC.

Attached Link: http://www.computersforart.org/about/index.htm

A nice site about what you can do with computers that are not so old as the ones in this thread.

I think there're several missing. I had a Vic-20 which is in the list, which was fantastic!! 3.5k RAM and I upgraded to 16k. But a few years later they came up with the C-16. Which I wanted SO bad, but never got :-( I jumped to an Atari. Anyone remember Lynx 480z (not in the list)? It was the alternative to the BBC-B (also not in the list). I did three years of school on a Lynx 480z and eventually a 580z which was an awsome piece of kit. (In a third rate English Secondary modern in 1985 at least) I have food in my fridge with more computing power! And in typing (yes, I studied typing) we used Amstrad 9512's. Which were AWFUL! Awww, those were the days my friend. I thought they'd never end....

Attached Link: http://computermuseum.50megs.com/collection.htm

I found this link which does have the C-16 and BBC-B. No lynx though.

Here's ours, but we got it secondhand in 1994. It had the big floppy disks and green, monochrome display, and my kids played games on it. I think my wife tried a database on it, too. I didn't even touch a computer for any kind of purposes, other than this little beauty (I was pretty good at Oregon Trail and Lemonade Stand LOL), until I got a system built in 1998.

cool... I had a IIc+... which was the same as above with color monitor and built in 3.5" floppy drive (rather than the 5.25")... but it wasn't my first... I started with an Apple II+, 48kb ram... and used to do some pretty cool (at the time) pictures and animations using DazzleDraw and FantaVision by Broderbund.... 1980, I believe... and programming in BASIC.. what fun!!

Old programmers never die, they just GOSUB without RETURN (I just love that one)

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TI-49/a (99/4 a pictured)... Basically a downgraded and cheaper version of the 99a model. (Anyone know for sure?) Anyone remember monochrome? Or typing code with FFFFF00FF? I was probably in the 1st grade when I had this fancy toy to play with. Got it from a garage sale at the neighbors or something... Atari 130XE. Not at the website mentioned, but think of it as an updated and modernized Atari 800 with some better graphics added. (More modes, faster chips.) There was also an XE+ model, which was a second generation and had round function buttons. (Practically a fancy gaming machine that could function as a computer. Well for mid 1980's it was good.) Commodore Amiga 500. Mine was the version that had Workbench 1.3. Also had a few manufacturing flaws, so it wasn't reliable like the previous compy. (Had to take it back to the shop for cracked board connections, etc.) Other than those annoyances it was a good game and graphics machine... Well at least until 3 months later when multimedia PC's started showing up. Then it started sucking... (Amiga software quickly became really difficult to find.) Anything after that is a PC... While "old" by todays latest and greatest standard, it's what I'm using now.

ah..I don't come in until you get to the Atari 800..which I pawned off on me little brudder back in the early 90's..started with a Leading Edge model D (upgraded to 640k by meself..;)
Btw..if you really want to relive the 'agony' of these puppies, search the web for emulators. I know there's a Commodore 64, and Atari 800 (but where's Star Raiders?..;), even IBM Mainframes..;) Once you get the emulators, you can run the games (which are also out there on the web). the 64 has a hundred or more games out there. I ran the Atari emulator, but couldn't remember the commands (had the buzzes and 40 character display..;)
just one of those scary thoughts..Tallpindo and I got into a conversation on old computer stuff..he goes back a bit farther than me (doing Cobol on Punch cards..;)

Attached Link: http://www.worldofspectrum.org/index.html

World of Spectrum, everything you need when you are a Sinclair addict like me. And with everything, i mean just about everything.

Schneider CPC 64 was the first computer I really played on. "Knight Lore" ruled! :-) (It's the German version of Armstrad 64.) It belonged to my cousin. Spectrum was my first computer but it very soon died and never got fixed. I still have it somewhere back in my hometown. And NeXT Cube was the computer I lusted for. Big Postscript display and sexy... I guess that even then I knew I will do something with computer graphics! But NeXT died and my first real computer was a PC XT at work and then my own 286. :-/

Message edited on: 04/04/2005 14:12

i had a spectrum too as first computer then a c64 an QL and amiga 500 ,amiga 1200 then switched to pc never regretted the move. also had gaming computers started with the philips videopac (this one sucked so bad I almost swapped all the games i bought within a week cause they were so bad , only good one was a packman clone that had to be taken out of the shops due to copyright invringement.), the atari 2600, the colecovision , the vectrex, the nintendo, the sega32 nice thing is u can play most of the old games on emulators now on the pc, mame is a good example

Me using my TI-99/4A with a whopping 16k. CALL CHAR (32, "3C7EFFFFFFFF7E3C") Hey, look, I turned the ASCII space character into a ball!

Anyone remember their sliderule?

I ain't that old. ;-)

@Incarnadine, I genuinely still have mine :0

and I still remember how to use most of it (grin)

Are you talking about this thing? (I inherited this one.) I suppose it's nifty to have if compys get EMP'd somehow, but other than that it's pretty useless for the stuff I typically do. :s

LOLPauljs, I have 3 of those suckers laying around somewhere here. God, I loved them! I actually thought they were in. Then I had my Texas Instrument 50 step programmable calculator which I used to figure out planetary orbits with.

Yup. Had to actually complete an exam once (successfully) with mine due to batteries failing in my commodore scientific. BTW the watch looks like a nice one.

It'd be great if it worked (the watch). It needs repair or something... (I think the spring is shot.) At least I haven't seen anyone show a picture of an abascus yet. Heheh.

It is not easy to find a watchmaker these days but there are some still. I got my greatgrandfathers fixed and he had to make a new spring and a couple of small bits. Cost me piece of change but it is family heirloom stuff.