retrorussell Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 First cpu I think was in Christmas of 1982 or 1983.. the fabulous TI-99. I tried making music on it and forgot to insert pauses. The music flowed hyper-fast and I fell over myself laughing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atari181 Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 My first computer was the Atari 800XL with the 1050 disk drive and an okidata okimate printer I would spend hours and hours typing in basic programs from Kpower, Compute or Family Computing magazine to find out they didn't work. Then spend forever trying to find out where I had messed up typing it in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HiroProX Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 Atari 800XL, a 1010, and 1020. Mowed many, many, MANY lawns that following summer to get a 1050. And traded a friend some rare comic books for his 850 and 830, and bought my dad's Epson MX-80 from him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tep392 Posted February 21, 2010 Share Posted February 21, 2010 Does this count? An Atari VCS with BASIC programming cart. My dreams of programming my own games in BASIC were dashed in about 5 minutes when I realized how little RAM it had. I eventually convinced my parents to buy me a 400 with 410 program recorder. Had a lot of fun with that until I saved up enough to get an Apple IIe with floppy dive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zylon Posted February 21, 2010 Share Posted February 21, 2010 Base VIC-20, later C64(still have it), and I've since added a TI99/4a and just started buying 400/600 stuff yesterday! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+poobah Posted February 21, 2010 Share Posted February 21, 2010 Does this count? An Atari VCS with BASIC programming cart. My dreams of programming my own games in BASIC were dashed in about 5 minutes when I realized how little RAM it had. I eventually convinced my parents to buy me a 400 with 410 program recorder. Had a lot of fun with that until I saved up enough to get an Apple IIe with floppy dive. C'mon, 63 bytes is huge! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dafivehole Posted February 21, 2010 Share Posted February 21, 2010 My signature below says it all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+CharlieChaplin Posted February 21, 2010 Share Posted February 21, 2010 (edited) Well, my first computer was an Atari 800XL which I got (together with my older brother) at XMAS 1984. The 1010 program recorder came in May or June 1985, so we got six months with typing-in various programs and whenever we turned off the A8, the programs were gone forever... This 800XL computer got several upgrades (e.g. Megaram-2 enhanced to 512k RAM upgrade, S-video upgrade, OLD-OS upgrade and almost a stereo upgrade). Alas it "died" in 2009 when trying to upgrade it with stereo (the RAM upgrade got a short-circuit, also the motherboard where the RAM upgrade was connected to got a short-circuit, both were black and brown afterwards and unrepairable). But therefore I bought four alternative 800XL`s and already upgraded them with stereo, s-video and OLD-OS and one of them with 512k XRAM (the remaining three XL`s still need a RAM upgrade)... -Andreas Koch. Edited February 21, 2010 by CharlieChaplin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox-1 / mnx Posted February 23, 2010 Share Posted February 23, 2010 First owned console: Philips Videopac G7000 (Magnavox Odyssey 2) First computer: Sinclair ZX81 Second computer: Atari 130XE Besides these I also used Philips P2000T, Sharp MZ700, Acorn Electron, BBC Micro, Sony MSX, VIC20, C64, CP/M and XT machines but all those are not interesting at all. Some of them I still have. Well, I have to say that the ZX81 still rocks! :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeteD Posted February 23, 2010 Share Posted February 23, 2010 BBC Micro was my first "computer". Speccy then C64 after that but the good old beeb taught me basic and 6502 and got me on the track to the "demo scene". Pete Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STE'86 Posted February 23, 2010 Share Posted February 23, 2010 June 1983. Dragon 32 (TRaSh 80 CoCo compatible to u yanks ) just like Andy Braybrook June 1985. C64. Dec 1985 1541. Jan 1986 Koalapainter. let the good times roll Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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