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Chopper · Post by **Chopper** » Sun Feb 01, 2015 10:30 pm

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...

piel · Post by **piel** » Sun Feb 01, 2015 10:42 pm

Sendy wrote:
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.
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.

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.

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.

hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Sun Feb 01, 2015 11:02 pm

A mac. WAY back when macs were good.

beauchamp · Post by **beauchamp** » Sun Feb 01, 2015 11:17 pm

2 floppies. Bleedin' edge.

beauchamp

deastman · Post by **deastman** » Sun Feb 01, 2015 11:31 pm

Sendy wrote:They actually called it the Trash-80? That's pretty punk

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.

audientronic · Post by **audientronic** » Mon Feb 02, 2015 4:09 am

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."

fedexnman · Post by **fedexnman** » Mon Feb 02, 2015 4:10 am

Dell Pentium3 with 512 mb of ram ...lol z

hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Mon Feb 02, 2015 4:26 am

Lolz........allow me to be more specific about my mac.........

I paid 300 bucks to upgrade the ram to 16mb's

Yep, I'm older than dirt.

cryophonik · Post by **cryophonik** » Mon Feb 02, 2015 4:48 am

do_androids_dream wrote:Commodore 64 for me

Ditto.

Frantz · Post by **Frantz** » Mon Feb 02, 2015 4:50 am

I was a Commodore kid. Vic 20 -> C= 64 -> Amiga 500.

ccDuckett · Post by **ccDuckett** » Mon Feb 02, 2015 5:38 am

Tombstone City was a strange yet addictive game.

Frantz · Post by **Frantz** » Mon Feb 02, 2015 5:52 am

I never owned one but have fond memories of using the Trash 80.

Chapelle · Post by **Chapelle** » Mon Feb 02, 2015 6:33 am

an-electric-heart · Post by **an-electric-heart** » Mon Feb 02, 2015 7:39 am

Sega Master System 2... with Alex Kidd in Miracle World built in!

el-bo (formerly ebow) · Mon Feb 02, 2015 8:10 am

trimph1 wrote:

This thing...the Altair 8800...

could it run manic miner ??

What was the first computer you owned?