An odd thought for a footie site but what was your first computer?

Mine was an Acorn Atom with a massive 1K of memory that you had to build yourself followed by a Acorn BBC 32K model several assorted Sinclair Spectrums and assorted Amstrads( Sugar really beat the market here 464 664 6128 all with their own monitors) (PC's 1512 and 1640) light years ahead of what IBM were trying to foist off on us as Personal Computers Single floppy 5.25 inch drive and 256K ram with non existant graphics Amstrads were plastic and looked cheap but the money was spent looking for the best deals so you had graphics cards and hard drives, who else remembers the stir the 1640 made with it's advanced EGA graphics?

 

Mine a tiny 256mb,however they went bust a long time ago

 

I had a commodore c16 plus 4 use too have too wait between 20 mins and an hour to load a game it was cassette driven but you could get a floppy disc drive i just used it for gaming as i was young, it was a interesting machine as out at the same time as the more known popular c64

 

When I started work we had a "mainframe computer" - this was about the size of a large open plan office

I now have more power in my lap top - amazing really!!

 

If you've got a smart phone you've probably got more power in that than the old mainframe computers from the 80's.

I can't remember what make my first PC was, but I remember DOS and working on Windows 1 and then Windows for Workgroups. When Windows got Solitaire I couldn't be separated from the family PC.

Now, I'm a programmer by trade, and I still cannot be separated from my computer. Thankfully, it's now socially acceptable to always be around technology nowadays.

 

Tiny were reabsorbed back into their parent company as far as I can remember.

 

About 6 years ago i broke the bank and bought a dell direct from dell for gaming it was a monster at the time, but in the last few years everything caught up or surpassed it i dont think id spend big again, i think my nexus 4 smart phone surpasses it for web browsing now

 

usually faster and cheaper to upgrade what you have a bit at a time starting with extra ram

 

I worked as a Computer Operator on shift for 18 years looking after mainframes.

My first personal one was a Commodore VIC20 then I had a Commodore Amiga

Now it's a Dell

 

I had a Commodore C16 Plus4 too, though my first proper PC had a 40MB hard disk and I think 1MB of RAM. I well remember using both 5 1/4" and 3.5" floppies too for storage. And in the early 80's I did a bit of computer programming training on a "huge" mainframe in a building the size of a warehouse - the mainframe probably had less processing power than an average digital watch today. Oh, and we had to use punch cards - anyone remember those?

 

Oh yes. If you shuffled them the programme didn't work...

 

Good work Hawky you have identified all the computer geeks and rounded them in to one area..

 

Nerds

 

Well that must include me then I first trained on Computers whilst in the NHS trying to write programs that could keep patients medical records in an easy accessable fashion using loglan and punch cards nearly drove me nuts no wonder I went back to Psychie nursing for some sanity.