Old Skool computers/games consoles.

[Col.Kurtz]

What Computers and games consoles did you have as a kid? Were you posh with a BBC Micro, or one of the lads with a ZX Spectrum? Grandstand games console or Atari?

I shared a 16k (later upgraded to a whopping 48k!!) ZX Spectrum with my brother, and had loads of arguments about whose turn it was - usually ending up with one of us pulling the power lead out and having to wait another 5 minutes for the game to reload.

Elite was probably my favourite game when it finally came out for the Spectrum, and Tomahawk (Apache helicopter simulator).

We also got a currah speech synthasizer which we programmed to say all the swear words we could think of.

[dellym]

we had a spectrum too...my fave game was attic attack..you had to find keys and escape from mummies and vampires lol. I wonder if theres an online version of it?

[mick]

I started off with a Aquarius computer with rubber keys and 2kb ram then over to a Comadore64 then a Amiga 500 then Amiga 1200 which i took apart and put in a tower then over to cr**p windows on a pc i used to sell Amiga and pc stuff on Accy market before i had a heart attack
my fav game was Elite too





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We started out with an Atari 600, then Atari 800XL and then onto a 286 and amiga 500. Those where the days! I had a 20meg hard drive that was bigger than a playstation!

[Jason]

The atari games system is the first one i got i think.
The tennis on there and the bok (breakout) games were my faves when i was a wee lad.

[Mattylad]

You had a whole 16K?

Wow, I did not have that much for ages.

I started out with a terminal unit that only had 1K ish & did very little lol
Then went down the ZX81>speccy>C64 route till getting an IBM 8080/XT then a 286/386/486 (still have the mobo) onwards & upwards.