Your Route Through The Computer Age...

What was your route through the computer age?

My first computer was a ZX81. Loading from a cassette player was a nightmare - the volume had to be exactly right. I never managed to get anything saved to a cassette. I had a memory expansion that was a massive 32kb !!! Pointless, really, as the biggest games only required 16k.

My next step was a Commodore 16. I still remember games such as Tutti Frutti and Blagger. At least the attached tape deck worked most of the time and didn't require fiddling with a volume control.

My first 'real' pc, around '96 or '97 was either a Packard Bell or HP, can't remember which.... It had a massive 2.2 gig hard-drive, a 166 MHz pentium processor, and a whole 16 Meg of memory. I could only have one game installed at a time...

After that, I moved on to what would be more recognisable as 'real' pc's...

Never really bothered much with computers untill i got interested in computer music and bought a Yamaha MSX CX5M which had a DX keyboard module built in so it could be used to produce some amazing stuff at the time it was state of the art but the MSX system was not embraced so much and was limited to eastern countries and only supported by the hifi companies such as lucky goldstar ,sony,panasonic,and yamaha , I still use it , in fact I have four now .Three European and one Japanese ..............but I do love old tech

Like you MM my first computer was the ZX81

 I'm nearly 43 now so I would have been about 13 then. Moved on to the ZX Spectrum and a few years later went all posh with the Commodore 64

After that nothing until the Megadrive and then the PlayStation 1 and 2....now xbox

Went through the megadrive - playstation - playstation 2 route as well....

Strange quirk of the megadrive - I used to have the "Aliens" game, and playing it in the winter was a complete pain, as for some reason, every time the central heating kicked in it must have sent a power surge that fried the game and caused it to crash. It was just that one game, and that was the game I played the most... pain in the arse that was.

Here's an article from the BBC website, marking the ZX81's 30th anniversary...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12703674

Here's an article from the BBC website, marking the ZX81's 30th anniversary...
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-mysteryman

30th Anniversary.....wow, makes me feel old.