vintage computers

[masterofinsanity]

just been browsing the old ebay as you do and came across the listing for vintage computers, and boy there's some old ones there, zx80, zx81 spectrum, orics, acorns atari 800xl, what's the oldest pc you remember and what have you had? what was your first? including consoles?

me
my first pc was a Tandy TRS80 colour computer with 16k memory, had it for xmas and it didn't work so took it back and they gave me a 32k memory for no extra charge! and full 16 colours

had a Atari 2600 console when they rereleased them without the wooden surround which i bought with my first pay from my paper round.

stuck with that for a bit then when i got my first job i splashed out on the all singing/dancing Atari 520 ST brand new with my first wage slip :big grin:

after that i moved onto a Olivetti 286 PC now we're talking then started building pcs when the 486DX came out and just upgraded and upgraded.

[RedexRobB]

First had the wooden Atari which was strictly my dads, but got the 2600 for christmas one year. Then got a Sega mastersystem 1, then had a NES. Few years after got an Amiga 500+ Had that for ages! Also got a Game Boy, my bro had the handheld Sega Game Gear. then i think we got our first PC in 1996 or so, a Packard Bell with a 200MHz processor and 32MB of RAM, top of the range in its time, well at least for 5 minutes i guess. Not bought another desktop since, much prefer laptops as im not too bothered about upgrading. As for fun i have my Nintendo DS Lite which i play Brain Training on

[jake]

come on dudes, they aint vintage!

i had a commodore vic 20... what a machine, then ,and probably the finest computer of all time, the c64.

[f17th]

I work in the computer industry and I have built more computers than I have had hot dinners

I still come across some old clapped out machines at my work as we need them for Developing software and testing on them.
But heres the run down on what I have owned in the last 10 or so years

Computers :

Amiga 1200
Commodore 64
486DX
P2 350Mhz 128Mb Ram (Speed Demon!)
Duron 800
AMD XP 1200+
AMD 2400+
Then quite a lot of upgrades and now have this which is :

Core 2 6400, 2 Gig Ram, 600 GB or so Storage, 8800 GTS 320mb GFX


Consoles

NES
SNES
MegaDrive
N64
PS2
XBOX 360

[Bestie]

ahhh!

(cracks knucles, arms out streched!)

i dunno if ANYONE remembers a programme on ITV around 1993-95. called BAD INFLUENCE, starred (loose term really) andy crane, violet berlin and the one and only cheat master, nam rude who had a funny habbot of sticking cheats to his head?!!

Well, I, yes bestie, was a feature on that for 2 years, reviewing games, and taking home the carts with no plastic, i even sat next to richard whitely to eat a chicken curry, bowed in the prescence off the countdown clock, and got days of skool yipee!

So;

Binatone - handed dwn by parents, basically pong, and every variation, tennis, dquash etc and 2 stixks with dials on to move the pad
Commodore C64+ (not the plus!)
Amiga 500+ ahh the copies come flooding back
sega megadrive 1
atari jaguar
sega gamegear
1st gameboy
atari lynx
barcode battler
N64 (still got just for goldeneye and mario kart and tennis)
then ps1, ps2 now ps3
gamecube
gameboy sp

and a hp pc...and sanyo laptop

always wanted a supergun, similar to neo geo but played arcade motherboards in yer home, too young though!

so if anyone wants a copy of my vhs casette with me on bad influence drop me a line, spec if you know how to convert to dvd!

cheers retro fans!

Bestie

oh, and a professor calculator too!

[Northern ANdy]

had the 800xl, river rescue ftw

[zimm]

atari 520stfm !! still got it somewhere .. then an athlon 650, now this .. a 3.5gig celeron .. thing .. ive given up keeping track of hardware .. it does what i need it to do.

[masterofinsanity]

while we're on this subject if anyone has any 512mb agp graphics cards i'm after 1 and also some ddr memory.

[lindaloo]

If i remember correctly, i had spectrum zx +2....sure thats right....and my mate had the commodore 64......an hour to load a game for it to say error....those were the days

[masterofinsanity]

If i remember correctly, i had spectrum zx +2....sure thats right....and my mate had the commodore 64......an hour to load a game for it to say error....those were the days

weren't they just, and do you remember the noise it used to make loading games from cassettes

[lindaloo]

Heavens above yeah i do!! and that stripey screen thing goin on too.......round edge i think it was..bloody annoying lol

[superman]

ah yea i had an old commadore 64 still got it actually. think it works an all lol. you would put it on load come back 20 minutes later only to find you need to press enter to continue loading.

[lindaloo]

pmsl ......so true!!

i got a cd rom with hundreds of spectrum games on,...jesus didnt half make me smile ,...the memories
should have had the same loading times

[masterofinsanity]

i've looked at buying old consoles but as you say there are soo many emulaters out there now its just not worth it.

[lindaloo]

I wouldnt mind an old computer tho,...just to show my kids how things used to be...
hmm now i feel old
got phrases poppin up like " ya dont know ya born!"