Favourite old computers?

Finners02

Here's a bit of a fun one...

What's your favourite old computer? I.e., Commodores, Ataris, ZX Spectrums...

Mine's a toss-up between the Commodore 64 and The BBC Master Computer.

The latter had class where as the former had a popular touch and curvy bits!

Any thoughts? Post 'em below!

motorguy

I was a commodore man.

Had a 3.5K Vic 20 (3583 bytes free...), then a commodore 64, then a Commodore 128d, then an amiga 500 (the week they came out) then a 1200.

Loved the C64.

superscaper

I had fun as a 5 year old onwards using my dad's Spectrum 48K (then we got a 128K+2 as well). Especially writing template programs and altering them. Best way to learn really.

Then my favourite operating system to date is RISC OS on the Acorn A5000. I've not found anything more intuitive, cleaner, more secure or faster to use since.

fas3robinj

I still have my Spectrum 48k. I ran a users group in 1983. Even tried machine code, and remember studying a Z80 programming book. Writing basic programmes was a whole lot of fun (and frustration). Still get a buzz of excitement when I get my Spectrum out of it's box. Don't have a single programme for it any more though.:cool:

superscaper

fas3robinj wrote: »

I still have my Spectrum 48k. I ran a users group in 1983. Even tried machine code, and remember studying a Z80 programming book. Writing basic programmes was a whole lot of fun (and frustration). Still get a buzz of excitement when I get my Spectrum out of it's box. Don't have a single programme for it any more though.:cool:

Well I was only 3 in 1983! Didn't start doing any machine code until my engineering degree.

Belnahua

I still have my BBC B Computer, complete with Teletext adaptor and Music 5000 System. I also found loads of 5" floppy disks. Wonder if they all still work?

netdumdum

I started off with a ZX Spectrum +, basically a ZX Spectrum with a decent keyboard, then a few years later I got the ZX Spectrum + 3, this was really fancy as it had a built in disk drive, mum got for me as she wanted to get one that was quite hi tech, yeah right!

Only problem I had was using it on my black and white portable, I either got a very clear picture and dodgy sound or a fuzzy picture with great sound!

gooner045

ZX81 copying programs from sinclair user that took hours and invariably didnt work, like hangman!! I think it had 1k of memory if i remember rightly and an expansion pack took it to 8k :eek:

I remember playing Daley Thomsons decathlon on an amstrad, that you loaded by cassette tape, with a joystick, and my wife walking in on me thinking i was doing summat quite different

mjr600

Dragon 32 much better than the ZX bunch, proper keyboard, Microsoft Basic and I used to love POKEing it !

A mate had an Oric1, now that was out there.

motorguy

superscaper wrote: »

Well I was only 3 in 1983! Didn't start doing any machine code until my engineering degree.

There are 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary and those who dont.... :rolleyes:

motorguy

mjr600 wrote: »

Dragon 32 much better than the ZX bunch, proper keyboard, Microsoft Basic and I used to love POKEing it !

LETS ALL PRETEND WE'RE USING DRAGON 32'S NOW THEN.