What was the first computer you owned?
- KVRAF
- 1821 posts since 26 Nov, 2005 from Where silence and chaos meet.
Amstrad cpc464... The one with colour monitor. In 1985. I managed to develop a drum machine on it using BASIC. Very binky blionky tssst tssst... I was 12. Then around 88 i discovered the atari st 1040. Bought cubase and never looked back. Cubase 3 on atari is still to my view the best midi sequencer ever.
Edit: by 1989 i was able to secure a job in a famous studio just because of my technical knowledge of that thing. I wasn't even legally allowed to work as i was still to young. Things were easier those days if you were good at it. That is how i started in the industry. By knowing how to use a sequencer and therefore being helpful in a studio. Things have changed...
Edit: by 1989 i was able to secure a job in a famous studio just because of my technical knowledge of that thing. I wasn't even legally allowed to work as i was still to young. Things were easier those days if you were good at it. That is how i started in the industry. By knowing how to use a sequencer and therefore being helpful in a studio. Things have changed...
It's not what you use, it's how you use it...
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- KVRist
- 137 posts since 2 May, 2007
The thing is my parents didn't tell me how it got to me for a couple of years. Probably they did not want me to let it slip at school. (I was kinda young when i got it). A few years later the rules started to ease up and my friends were getting have zx81-s and other stuff, c64 was the supreme ruler at the time. I have had a good 6-7 years before others started to dabble with them.Sendy wrote:That's some pretty elite stuff. I bet having it smuggled in made it even more exciting Being told you can't do something tends to have that effect.piel wrote:Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48k
The one with the rubber "keys". I loved it. I was born and raised behind the iron curtain, it was smuggled in by a pilot friend of my uncle. Pretty ridiculous.
The ZX-81 that was Sinclair's machine before the Speccy, didn't even have keys, just a membrane with rectangles printed on it. It was a most peculiar sensation.
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- KVRAF
- 7540 posts since 7 Aug, 2003 from San Francisco Bay Area
It was the TRS-80. But everyone called it the Trash-80, especially all of us Apple ][ snobs who wouldn't be caught dead with a Tandy computer.Sendy wrote:They actually called it the Trash-80? That's pretty punk
Incomplete list of my gear: 1/8" audio input jack.
- KVRian
- 1051 posts since 31 Mar, 2012
I had a TRS-80. There were two models available when I got it: one with 4k RAM and one with 16k. I opened it up for Christmas and was excited I got the 16k one. To which my father said, "Yeah...that's all you'll ever need."
- KVRAF
- 10258 posts since 7 Sep, 2006 from Roseville, CA
Ditto.do_androids_dream wrote:Commodore 64 for me
Logic Pro | PolyBrute | MatrixBrute | MiniFreak | Prophet 6 | Trigon 6 | OB-6 | Rev2 | Pro 3 | SE-1X | Polar TI2 | Blofeld | RYTMmk2 | Digitone | Syntakt | Digitakt | Integra-7
- KVRAF
- 6325 posts since 18 Jul, 2008 from New York
I was a Commodore kid. Vic 20 -> C= 64 -> Amiga 500.
- KVRian
- 541 posts since 15 Jun, 2011 from Betwixt or between
Tombstone City was a strange yet addictive game.
Music can no longer soothe the worried thoughts of monarchs; it can only tell you when it's time to buy margarine or copulate. -xoxos
Discontinue use if rash or irritation develops.
Discontinue use if rash or irritation develops.
- KVRAF
- 6325 posts since 18 Jul, 2008 from New York
I never owned one but have fond memories of using the Trash 80.
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- KVRAF
- 2505 posts since 13 Jun, 2008 from Napier,New Zealand
Sega Master System 2... with Alex Kidd in Miracle World built in!
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el-bo (formerly ebow) el-bo (formerly ebow) https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=208007
- KVRAF
- 16369 posts since 24 May, 2009 from A galaxy, far far away
could it run manic miner ??trimph1 wrote:
This thing...the Altair 8800...