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Mine was a Atari 800XL with a cassette loader, built like a tank, then an Atari ST WOW! and 1meg ( upgradeable to 4meg for a £100.) and a floppy drive and poor build quality,then a £45.00 for a second hand 486 PC and thats when it all started to get a bit tedious...

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An Acorn Electron (eh?) whose games came on a standard tape.

My mate had a ZX81 which came with a text only game of something called Football Manager. You just had to sit and watch the scores come up…

I`m probably showing my age here but if it can be called a computer by todays standards i had a sinclair ZX81.
This was the cause of many late nights in my youth trying to type in a program from a magazine only to have it not work or for the "ram pack" to wobble and crash the computer.

Oh happy days ;o)

Yup, ZX81 too.
"Oi, walk gently past that power pack, it`s got a dodgy connectio.....too late...
Welcome to Sinclair Research 1982" Was it really 1982??

Ste

My brother actually had a ZX80, which was mainly white with one of those `pressure sensitive` keypads that was basically a flat piece of plastic that you had to apply about 2000psi just to get the damn `enter` key to work.

Plus, it didn`t even work unless you bought an extra ram pack.

as for the 16k ram pack, it stayed on fine if you used about 15 rubber bands.

I was on of about half a doven people that bought an Oric

Commodore Vic 20... followed swiftly by a C64 (which i still have.. with printer, disk drive etc...)

Mine was a BBC Micro. Bloody expensive, but it had a proper keyboard and the original version of *ELITE* - which made it worthwhile.

I hate to say it but I used to laugh at the Spectrum - it`s only now that I realise what a little marvel it really was!

Mike

ZX81 here too!

Anyone buy the so called cure for the rampack wobble? It was a bit of velcro that stuck it to the computer. :)

Commodore Vic20.

Nick