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Conan The Librarian
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Joined: 27 May 2004
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Location: Merry Olde England |
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My first console was Atari and my first computer was the Amstrad 1640.
1640 represents the year it was released. 
I did have the artifact the ZX81 once but I fried it. 
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Jaz
Late Night Spook
Joined: 20 Jan 2002
Posts: 9708
Location: RPGDot |
My first console was a Pong game, my second an Atari 2600, and my first 'computer' was an Amstrad PCW8256... and no, that 's NOT the year of its creation, my Amstrad is a year older than yours (i.e. from 1985).
Basically it is just a word processing machine with its processor, a RAM-disk precursor and a drive for reversible 3" floppies (not 3,5", no, those are really 3") inside the monitor casing. No HDD. No desktop casing. Just a monitor, a keyboard and a printer. Its OS is either CPM or CPM/3, I forgot which (the other one was used by our University's 'compact mainframe', while our 'big' mainframe used BS2000... yes, this was during the computer Stone Age, and we also had to learn punchcard programming).
The Amstrad and the Atari are still alive, but I gave both to my brother about 10 years ago.
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Roach
SBR Belfry Bat
Joined: 20 Jan 2002
Posts: 3233
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VIC 20. *g* Now that was cutting edge! |
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vaticide
Put food in here
Joined: 21 Feb 2002
Posts: 1122
Location: One step behind a toddler bent on destruction. |
ATARI 800. It was AWESOME! |
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Dhruin
Stranger In A Strange Land
Joined: 20 May 2002
Posts: 1825
Location: Sydney, Australia |
I built a kit computer from Electronics Today International magazine called the ETI660. It had a 320*200 TV output, 1Kb RAM (which I extended to 9Kb with my own design) and was programmed in assembly language.
After that, a Sinclair ZX80, Sinclair Spectrum, Commordore 64...
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piln
High Emperor
Joined: 22 May 2003
Posts: 906
Location: Leeds, UK |
That's pretty fancy for a first computer, Dhruin! 
Mine was a VIC-20, but the C64 that came a year or two later was the one that turned me into a geek-for-life! To be honest, I wish I still had it. |
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dteowner
Shoegazer
Joined: 21 Mar 2002
Posts: 7570
Location: Third Hero of Erathia |
Pong to Magnavox Odyssey II to the neighbor's TI-99 to my own Zenith
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RIP Red Wings How 'Bout Dem Cowboys! |
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RPG Frog
Blade Runner
Joined: 02 Jan 2004
Posts: 748
Location: the Matrix |
1st Console = Atari2600
1st Computer = Commodore64
Favorite Computer = My brother's Atari ST(It was a gaming computer that was in direct competition with the Amiga and it had a mouse driven GUI OS and built in 3.5" drive which was cutting-edge for 1988)
Favorite Console = TurboGrafx16/Turbo Duo/PC-Engine(credit card size ROM carts and the 1st CD-rom game machine)
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Jaz
Late Night Spook
Joined: 20 Jan 2002
Posts: 9708
Location: RPGDot |
quote:
Originally posted by Dhruin
After that, a Sinclair ZX80, Sinclair Spectrum, Commordore 64...
I completely ignored all personal computer/console-like items after the 2600 until I bought the used PCW for writing my diploma thesis, mainly because I could do all I wanted with the mainframes at the U. I didn't like computer games very much at the time, being pretty content with what the Atari console had to offer, and there was a chess game for the PCW...
...then I saw Wolfenstein 3D on a friend's 386, and was speechless.
Needless to say I visited him pretty often after that incident, and then he suddenly had Doom...
Two days later I went to a store and bought a brand new 486 DX-2 66 with 2 MB of RAM and an incredible 170 MB HDD - my first gaming comp.
My favorite computer was my DX-4 100, it held, like, forever. My favorite console was the SNES. So many early hours after night shift spent gaming with that thing...
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corwin
On the Razorblade of Life
Joined: 10 Jun 2002
Posts: 8376
Location: Australia |
Moderns!! I had an Intellivision, with a little computer adapter for it. I learnt BASIC on that. I still have the Intellivision and it still works!!
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Danicek
The Old One
Joined: 15 Dec 2001
Posts: 5922
Location: Czech Republic |
Sinclair ZX80 |
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ScOut3R
Tempered Warlord
Joined: 15 Feb 2002
Posts: 299
Location: Hungary |
My first entertainment electronic was a Commodore64, after that i had a Nintendo16. I got my first "real" PC in '95. I'm still playing the Nintendo with my sister occasionally
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Patriot
Small Tiger
Joined: 31 May 2004
Posts: 1421
Location: Athens,Greece |
Wel only computer since 1995 |
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cfmdobbie
High Emperor
Joined: 01 Jul 2002
Posts: 1859
Location: London, England |
Amstrad CPC-664. Cost a bomb, but it had a built-in floppy drive!
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Darrius Cole
Most Exalted Highlord
Joined: 04 May 2004
Posts: 406
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Commodore 64.
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