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Post by knowingeye on Jun 11, 2008 14:20:37 GMT
Remembering Life Before The Computer
1. Memory was something that you lost with age.
2. An application was for employment.
3. A programme was a TV show.
4. A cursor used bad language.
5. A keyboard was a piano.
6. A web was a spider's home.
7. A virus was the flu.
8. A CD was a bank account.
9. A hard drive was a long trip on the road.
10. A mouse pad was where a mouse lived.
11. And if you had a 3 1/2- inch floppy ... you just hoped no one found out!
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Post by ben88 on Jun 11, 2008 14:23:45 GMT
;D
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Post by edinburghstokie on Jun 11, 2008 14:43:48 GMT
the office was more productive?
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Post by robdog on Jun 11, 2008 14:48:21 GMT
Sinclair ZX81
Sinclair Spectrum 48k
Commodore Vic 20
Commodore 64
Commodore Amiga
BBC Micro
Acorn Electron
The list goes on
Do you remember a magazine called Computer and Video Gamer.It used to have pages of code you could type into your Spectrum or Commodore for quality games.Except youd spend weeks typeing in 'poke' codes and the games never ever worked.
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Post by knowingeye on Jun 11, 2008 15:19:24 GMT
PCW8512 in 1985 two 3-inch floppy drives!!!!!  |
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Post by GRUMPY 1 on Jun 11, 2008 19:24:25 GMT
amstrad c64 was my first.
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Post by Gunslinger on Jun 11, 2008 20:25:49 GMT
I remember seeing the ZX81 in a shop close to 30 years ago. It had a 1K (?) memory but it could be expanded to 16K. No one had ever heard abaout gigabytes then...
A friend of mine bought the Vic20 and it was a revolution. You could even buy cartridges with games. I wanted the Commodore 64 but it was too expensive, so I ended up with the ZX Spectrum with 48K memory. It was a nice computer but the keyboard was horrible. I remember spending hours upon hours typing in the game codes from different magazines just like Rob says. And then having to spend twice the amount of time looking for errors that I never found so the game never worked. The games was on music cassettes so it was darn easy to copy...but it took more than 5 minutes to load. The message "Loading errr" wasn't very popular then... Great memories!
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Post by Juan Kerzhoff on Jun 11, 2008 20:29:05 GMT
zx81 was the first one i saw but the first one i had was a spectrum and i got addicted to a game called chuckie egg!! man those were the days  |
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Post by curacao on Jun 11, 2008 20:32:24 GMT
Life before computers must have been horrible, fortunately i cannot remember life back then, partly due to my stay in a mental home  It must have been horrible to hunt food with just sticks and rocks ;D And comunicate with people using primative grunts ;D |
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Post by Juan Kerzhoff on Jun 11, 2008 20:33:23 GMT
Life before computers must have been horrible, fortunately i cannot remember life back It must have been horrible to hunt food with just sticks and rocks ;D And comunicate with people using primative grunts ;D Normal day up anley duck |
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Post by daverichards on Jun 11, 2008 20:59:20 GMT
me n my sister got our first computer when i was about 6, it was a ZX80 , we then upgraded to a ZX81 with the 16K expansion pack .
also used a speccy 48K rubber key, that was the first colour computer I used .
I then had a Speccy 128K +3 with built in floppy drive
then
Amiga A500+
Amiga A600
Amiga A1200
first PC used was a 186
First PC owned was a 486 25Mhz
also used friends and school computers such as
Amstrad CPC464
BBC Micro
BBC master
Speccy 128k + and +2
commodore 64
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