[Nico]

first computer I used was a MO5

Yup, that's the whole thing, you plug it to a TV. There's a hole in the top left corner, I had some big thing looking like an electric shaver plugged there, don't know what it was, maybe the receptor for the optic pen.

[Flipside]

hehehe! I remember those, they were pretty hi-spec at the time iirc!

My first was this sorry piece of plastic called the Oric-1...




I actually started with a ZX81, but that was my brothers really. I upgraded to an Atmos later, still got it in the loft in fact

LOL My first baby-steps into programming was on this.

Look at that Space Bar btw, it was a bloody nightmare!

[Fineus]

I'll see your Oric-1 and raise you a Dragon

[Gloriano]

I don't even rememper what was my first computer

[Flipside]

hahaha! I remember playing those down Dixons when it first opened The bummer about the Dragon32 was the fact it was like the Oric, ie. very few companies bothered to convert games for it At least it encouraged you to learn to write your own

[Dark_4ce]

Alright. I'm in. I'll see your Dixons, Orics and Dragons and raise you the ALL MIGHTY VECTREX!




My earliest memories are of playing on this baby. Well, we did have an Atari before it. But this thing was the BOMB! Still is!

[vyper]

All consider yourself pwn3d - I had a Sinclair ZX Specturm

[Flipside]

Now THAT beastie wins!

A had blisters for days from playing Asteroids on that joystick

I used to have the old Atari console too, Yars Revenge still pwns

Everyone had a ZX Spectrum I had one of those posh Amstrad ones with the black 'ergonomic' keyboards and a tape deck glued to the side

[01010]

Originally posted by Dark_4ce
Alright. I'm in. I'll see your Dixons, Orics and Dragons and raise you the ALL MIGHTY VECTREX!




My earliest memories are of playing on this baby. Well, we did have an Atari before it. But this thing was the BOMB! Still is!

Oddly enough my earliest memory is playing Scramble on one of these and some formula one racing game on the Commodore 16+4.

I feel real ****ing old sometimes.

[Singh]

The oldest OS i remember is DOS.....I remember the time when my father was skeptical of installing Windows 3.0 on the machines we sold to customers lol......

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by Kalfireth
I'll see your Oric-1 and raise you a Dragon

http://www.retro-trader.com/images/march03/DVC01742.JPG

My CAD lecturer in second year worked on/for Dragon*, interestingly enough.  Absolutely loathed MS and intel, as a matter of fact........

Anyway, i see your Dragon and raise you an acorn electron


Wrote the BIOS, apparently - http://www.dndata.com/dragond/History/Quotes/index.htm

[Flipside]

Well, I'm cheating here, cos I never owned one but...



P43ar T3h 40RTH!!1!11!

Is it me, or is there something spookily Shivan about the Oric Atmos???

[Grey Wolf]

Hmm.... I underestimated the power of my grandfather's old computer. It didn't use and 8086 processor. 80186
Here's a pic of the Tandy TRS-80 Model 2000:

[Flipside]

LOL Looked and pretty much worked like room heaters

Good stuff

[karajorma]

Originally posted by Flipside
Everyone had a ZX Spectrum I had one of those posh Amstrad ones with the black 'ergonomic' keyboards and a tape deck glued to the side

I still have mine. Ahhh the Spectrum +2. I occassionally boot up an emulator to play Ranarama to this day

[Flipside]

Cool! I thought no-one else had heard of that game!

I used to love the 'duels' with the necromancer, a clever idea for an 8-Bit game