I remember my first pc .... how about you?

by talesin 11 Replies latest jw friends

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  Nosferatu

  Timex Sinclair 1000... complete with McDonald's cash register-style keyboard:

  I had one of those, except I had the rubber keyboard that you could put on top. I quickly lost interest in the Timex Sinclair because it only had 1k of ram (unless you had the 16k ram pak), it was black & white, no sound, and you had to use one of those shoebox cassette players for storage. It was a pain in the ass trying to adjust the volume on the cassette player to get the software loaded without errors.

  That's why I liked Commodore's Datasette better. Just push play. No fiddling with the volume & tone controls.
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  logical

  My ex-dad bought an Amstrad CPC464 when it first came out 20 years ago..... it was pretty good better (IMO) than the C64 and Spectrum. It only had a green screen though. I always wanted a colour one. I remember playing Chuckie Egg and Dizzy on that. I still do on emulators. Also had a ZX81 which broke. Before the Amstrad CPC I remember another machine it was a games thing with Pong and other similar games which I forget the name of.