Finally! - Page 2

BMC123 · 9th October 2007, 11:05

List as I remember them (not in actual order)

Vic 20
Spectrum 16k (rubber keys)
ZX80 kit (built and worked for a week then stopped)
Dragon 64
CBM 64
CBM Amiga 500
BBC B with disk drive
Atari 520 STM
Sony hitbit MSX
Sanyo MPC100 MSX
Toshiba MSX (can't remember the model)
Yamaha CX5M music computer (both Mk 1 & Mk 2)
Atari 1040STE 4 Mb

I worked as a repair engineer/salesman in a computer and hi-fi shop from 1982 to 1995, and was able to play with and take home nearly everything that was produced in that time, so the list is what I actually owned

My first PC was a Packard bell 486 SX 25 with 4Mb of ram, a soundblaster sound card and on board video........ ah those were the days.... Microsoft word on 12 floppy discs

Simon · 9th October 2007, 11:18

Atari! Now they were cool. Although a lot of my mates were into Amigas I and a couple of others stood fast with our Atari's. I had a 512STE - but then upgraded the memory to a whopping 2Mbytes! (well, it was big news in them days!) I even upgraded the built-in operating system to version 2.02 from 1.6 (or summat or other).

But then came PC's and everything changed...

Zeb · 9th October 2007, 11:47

My very first PC was an Amstrad 386 with 4mb ram ......it still managed to play Doom however! It still lives to this day - though not in my possession..not a bad age for a computer!

Pete · 12th October 2007, 10:30

Despite working in the industry for over 13 years I grew up with a huge aversion to anything electronic. At college we had Amstrad 1510 and 1640 machines in a lab and I hated them with a passion. Then I just sort of fell into the computer industry by chance just as the web was beginning to crawl from the swamp and into the public domain and never looked back.

Much.

JohnDotCom · 12th October 2007, 10:43

....and just as well for all of us on this club Pete.

Pete · 12th October 2007, 11:59

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Originally Posted by JohnDotCom

....and just as well for all of us on this club Pete.

I wouldn't say that John!

Must run, trying to do a new web site for a friend and it's gone from 8 to 32 pages.

Must consolidate it down a bit.........

Pete · 12th October 2007, 12:12

I can remember my first laptops. All Toshibas. First one had 4Mb RAM and Windows 3.11. It had that trackball that you clipped on the side and was kitted out with the wonderful cc:Mail. Second one had a colour screen - woooo! Third one was a Tecra, stuffed to the gunwhales with 16Mb RAM and an awesome Intel 333Mhz chipset. I ran Win95 and PageMaker, Quark and Notes on that thing. Now I have a machine with immeasurably better processing and graphics capabilities and it's just not good enough!

BMC123 · 12th October 2007, 12:14

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At college we had Amstrad 1510 and 1640 machines in a lab and I hated them with a passion

You and me both, and i had to try and sell the things

JohnDotCom · 12th October 2007, 12:35

I know just what you mean Pete.
At base not so bad but mobile even with my assortment Of Dell, IBM, Rock, Laptops and Mac Laptops they still seem slow at times.
The biggest bottleneck for me at locations is the awful communications speeds in the UK, Japan OK US getting there, we still Maximum 16mb is still way to slow, and DON'T mention the upload speeds they are so NAUGHTY WORD-NAUGHTY WORD-NAUGHTY WORD-NAUGHTY WORD- it can take us ages on working from Planes and Airports.
The latest Rock Laptop I'm using is the Best yet with Intel Quad Core Processor , 3GB Ram (no point in anymore on XP Pro and Vista 32bit they can't use any more!) 2 x 200GB 7200RPM striped O raid hard drives, 2 x (Yes 2) NVidia Quadro 2500M SLi 512mb Graphics card together with all the normal gubbins and 20" WSXGA+ X Glass screen not very mobile but getting there!
Never tried it with games but it is meant to be the Fastest Laptop Currently available!

9th October 2007, 11:05	#11
BMC123 Posted a thing or two 2004 1.8 Connoisseur SE, 1999 XJ8 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Northern Ireland Posts: 1,163 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	List as I remember them (not in actual order) Vic 20 Spectrum 16k (rubber keys) ZX80 kit (built and worked for a week then stopped) Dragon 64 CBM 64 CBM Amiga 500 BBC B with disk drive Atari 520 STM Sony hitbit MSX Sanyo MPC100 MSX Toshiba MSX (can't remember the model) Yamaha CX5M music computer (both Mk 1 & Mk 2) Atari 1040STE 4 Mb I worked as a repair engineer/salesman in a computer and hi-fi shop from 1982 to 1995, and was able to play with and take home nearly everything that was produced in that time, so the list is what I actually owned My first PC was a Packard bell 486 SX 25 with 4Mb of ram, a soundblaster sound card and on board video........ ah those were the days.... Microsoft word on 12 floppy discs __________________ [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]

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12th October 2007, 12:12	#17
Pete Owners Club Director Rover 75 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Sherfield-on-Loddon Posts: 4,872 Thanks: 137 Thanked 996 Times in 444 Posts	I can remember my first laptops. All Toshibas. First one had 4Mb RAM and Windows 3.11. It had that trackball that you clipped on the side and was kitted out with the wonderful cc:Mail. Second one had a colour screen - woooo! Third one was a Tecra, stuffed to the gunwhales with 16Mb RAM and an awesome Intel 333Mhz chipset. I ran Win95 and PageMaker, Quark and Notes on that thing. Now I have a machine with immeasurably better processing and graphics capabilities and it's just not good enough! __________________ Follow The Club On Twitter

9th October 2007, 11:18	#12
Simon Banned - Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: - Posts: 10,318 Thanks: 0 Thanked 4 Times in 3 Posts	Atari! Now they were cool. Although a lot of my mates were into Amigas I and a couple of others stood fast with our Atari's. I had a 512STE - but then upgraded the memory to a whopping 2Mbytes! (well, it was big news in them days!) I even upgraded the built-in operating system to version 2.02 from 1.6 (or summat or other). But then came PC's and everything changed...

9th October 2007, 11:47	#13
Zeb Banned MGZT V8 & ZTT 190+LPG Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 8,089 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	My very first PC was an Amstrad 386 with 4mb ram ......it still managed to play Doom however! It still lives to this day - though not in my possession..not a bad age for a computer!

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JohnDotCom * Rover 75 FaceLift Tourer CDTi 170BHP Auto ConnSE 2005 Model Starlight Silver Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Abergele Posts: 28,735 Thanks: 0 Thanked 6 Times in 5 Posts	....and just as well for all of us on this club Pete.

12th October 2007, 12:35	#19
JohnDotCom * Rover 75 FaceLift Tourer CDTi 170BHP Auto ConnSE 2005 Model Starlight Silver Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Abergele Posts: 28,735 Thanks: 0 Thanked 6 Times in 5 Posts	I know just what you mean Pete. At base not so bad but mobile even with my assortment Of Dell, IBM, Rock, Laptops and Mac Laptops they still seem slow at times. The biggest bottleneck for me at locations is the awful communications speeds in the UK, Japan OK US getting there, we still Maximum 16mb is still way to slow, and DON'T mention the upload speeds they are so NAUGHTY WORD-NAUGHTY WORD-NAUGHTY WORD-NAUGHTY WORD- it can take us ages on working from Planes and Airports. The latest Rock Laptop I'm using is the Best yet with Intel Quad Core Processor , 3GB Ram (no point in anymore on XP Pro and Vista 32bit they can't use any more!) 2 x 200GB 7200RPM striped O raid hard drives, 2 x (Yes 2) NVidia Quadro 2500M SLi 512mb Graphics card together with all the normal gubbins and 20" WSXGA+ X Glass screen not very mobile but getting there! Never tried it with games but it is meant to be the Fastest Laptop Currently available!