[Sigma957]

C64 was the first computer I ever bought and had probably close to a thousand games for that machine, 5 1/4" floppies absolutely crammed full of games. Then I moved onto the amiga 500 which I still have stashed in a wardrobe.

[Turnsky]

the sega master system II, was my first piece of entertainment gear, but i've used an earlier amiga system

[Martinus]

[color=66ff00]I had an Amstrad CPC-464.

It was a good machine but the tapes were infuriatingly flakey.

Speaking of retro, this caught my eye: oldschool? newschool?
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[Liquid Fire]

First thing I had was a sega master system. Ah, those were the days, when we actually called up the company that made afterburner to ask how many levels the stupid game had. (They laughed and said it went on forever. I was dissapointed.)

Of course, when my dad bought a computer, the graphics of descent 1 completely blew my mind.

[mikhael]

Heh. I have a C64 and a Vic20 in my closet right now. And a Timex-Sinclair 4k. My mother's got my old C64 lost in the attic somewhere, so rather than so I paid $10 for the lot at a yard sale, just so I could relive some of my childhood memories.

[Night Hammer]

I was deprived of the older sytems too, my first was NES

[Sesquipedalian]

TRS-80.  None of that new-fangled C64 stuff for me, you little whippersnappers!  Who here ever  played with a program called LOGO?

[kasperl]

First computer I used was something really old with a colour screen, before I was 3. After that, the first thing I remember, was a 386 with a black and white screen. I used that machine for years, and after that, I got a Pentium 1 IBM horror. After that, it's all too modern for you old relics


Really, most of those machines were gone when I was born, never mind when I started using computers. (I'm 17, born in 1988 if you're wondering.)

[Martinus]

[color=66ff00]I used the alpha version of MS-paint when I was a nipper: Etch-a-sketch.
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[Roanoke]

Originally posted by Maeglamor
[color=66ff00]I had an Amstrad CPC-464.

It was a good machine but the tapes were infuriatingly flakey.
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Remember the old Amsoft games ?

And Super Swiv, 1942, Aliens (from the film),Ghostbusters (the first game I ever went out and bough). Back in the day when £4 was for a game.

Eventually replaced by a  Master System 2 with Altered beast.

[vyper]

Originally posted by aldo_14
I had an Acorn Electron

Funny you mention Acorn, a while after the speccy I also got...

http://www.heimcomputer.de/english/comp/acornmaster.html

[WMCoolmon]

Originally posted by Sesquipedalian
TRS-80.  None of that new-fangled C64 stuff for me, you little whippersnappers!  Who here ever  played with a program called LOGO?

Me. On an old mac with no hard drive, just two external 5.25" drives.

[bash]

>>Who here ever played with a program called LOGO?

Me! Although that was WinLOGO. I had a realy neat robotics interface with that.

Started with a Commodore 16 by the way. That was about the age 3 or 4. I remember trying to play those tapes on my tape recorder, the output was quite crappy

[Mongoose]

Originally posted by Sesquipedalian
TRS-80.  None of that new-fangled C64 stuff for me, you little whippersnappers!  Who here ever  played with a program called LOGO?

We used to use that program in grade school on ancient Apple IIes.  Good ol' turtle.

[Grey Wolf]

The oldest things I've used were an old IBM and an old Tandy 8086.

[Col. Fishguts]

Me had a Commodore PC10-III

I still have its mainboard hanging on the wall as a piece of electronic art.

[Gortef]

Ah C64, how wonderful it was to wait for the game to load from the tape (AND try to stay away from the desk so that the game would actually load up). Floppy drive was like a dream come true

[IPAndrews]

Check out www.lemon64.com and www.lemonamiga.com . I loved the C64. The golden age of school yard computer piracy.