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offline unabomber from Palma de Mallorca (Spain) on 2006-10-29 23:58 [#01994805]
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Amstrad CPC 464


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offline sheffieldbleep from Sheffield (United Kingdom) on 2006-10-30 00:55 [#01994814]
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Spectrum 48


 

offline staz on 2006-10-30 01:17 [#01994815]
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fucking old farts, i didn't start until the glorious age of
pentium Is... 75mhz, 8mb of ram, 4xCD-ROM
DRIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!holyshit.


 

offline Matvey from Kiev (Ukraine) on 2006-10-30 02:33 [#01994826]
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ПК-01 Львoв

can't find a good image. The computer consisted of power
adapter and keyboard. We had to connect in to TV set through
antenna jack.

Had only built-in Basic2.0 interpreter, nothing else. It was
possible to connect it with a tape recorder and load/save
programs onto "compact cassettes". Big program - lots of
time to load.

Keyboard had a squeaker inside, possible to make music with
this operator:

10 sound 48,100;36,100;38,100;

(first number is pitch, second - duration, but not in Hz and
ms, in some unknown units)

48 KB RAM somewhere inside


 

offline Sclah from Freudian Slipmat on 2006-10-30 03:49 [#01994845]
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This one, without the black sticker.
Compaq Presario CDTV 528
486 66MHz, 8 MB RAM, VGA, 14" embedded screen, TV card.

Plays Transport Tycoon and SimCity 2000 for years and years


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offline Taxidermist from Black Grass on 2006-10-30 04:05 [#01994853]
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Adam Family System


 

offline uzim on 2006-10-30 04:14 [#01994854]
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Macintosh Performa 5300.

i feel like a newbie compared to all of you now...

i still use the "lite" ("LE") version of Photoshop (3.0) i
had at the time by the way.


 

offline skeksi23 from ∆ on 2006-10-30 10:43 [#01995119]
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rubber keys spectrum........chuckie egg madness! currah
speech synth thingy you plugged in the back was pretty mint


 

offline bob from Nottingham (United Kingdom) on 2006-10-30 10:56 [#01995139]
Points: 4669 Status: Lurker



Acorn Electron. Piece of shit.


 

offline 010101 from Vancouver (Canada) on 2006-10-30 11:39 [#01995174]
Points: 7669 Status: Regular | Followup to bob: #01995139



BBC B

I was obviously more middle class than you!


 

offline retape from http://retape.net (Norway) on 2006-10-30 12:39 [#01995221]
Points: 2355 Status: Lurker



266 MHz
32 mb ram
p1

im still fresh :(


 

offline lupus yonderboy from 1970. (United Kingdom) on 2006-10-30 12:43 [#01995227]
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spectrum 128k+2.

how i remember a guy from school getting ostracized for
proudly boosting his new fangled +3 and floppy drive.
futuristic bastard.


 

offline OK on 2006-10-30 13:39 [#01995294]
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I had a tandy 1000, but oh wait before that i had a texas
instruments computer (yes they used to make computers) that
ran on BASIC (i think).

Tandy 1000

And the texas was something like (if not) this


 

offline dave_g from United Kingdom on 2006-10-30 15:23 [#01995406]
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Amstrad CPC6128 here too.

I also went out and bought a cable to use a casette deck
with it to play all the older 464 games and those amstrad
action cover tapes. Those were the days.


 

offline lucifer on 2006-10-30 16:23 [#01995450]
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c64


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2006-10-30 18:55 [#01995508]
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i got a zx spectrum..which was the first common computer
around here..im old yeah.


 

offline B123 from The wicked underbelly (Australia) on 2006-10-30 21:36 [#01995542]
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I got this one from my parents on my 5th birthday.. It did
32534785 calculations per hour, all my friends were uber
jealous.
Only took 4 days to type "|337" on a punchcard, that was
with overclocking ofcourse. :D


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offline JivverDicker from my house on 2006-10-30 21:59 [#01995544]
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Oric 1


 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2006-10-30 22:14 [#01995546]
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the snagtastic ostriche-mech 1


 

offline B123 from The wicked underbelly (Australia) on 2006-10-31 02:08 [#01995585]
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Amiga 500


 

offline sheffieldbleep from Sheffield (United Kingdom) on 2006-10-31 02:12 [#01995587]
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old-computers.com


 

offline darkpromenade from Australia on 2006-10-31 02:22 [#01995588]
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My Dad bought this home from work......

Before that, I remember playing a Star Trek game on the
main-frames where he used to work........ that kmust have
been in about '78-'79


 

offline bob from Nottingham (United Kingdom) on 2006-10-31 02:49 [#01995592]
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Are you a bit of an oldie, then?


 

offline darkpromenade from Australia on 2006-10-31 21:56 [#01996025]
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yes


 


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