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Commodore Vic 20 in 1982, then a Spectrum zx81

We had a commodore 64 in about 1981, son used to make money when he was 14/15 writing games for it and sending to one of the computer magazines. I used to use it as a word processor writing letters and shopping lists.

Started with ZX81 way back in 1982, then a Spectrum, things have progressed a little since then to what they are now lol x

got a commodore 64 about 1982/3.
Still have it in original case in fairly new condition, complete with loads of games also a datassette unit modelC2N, an Oceanic OC-118 disk drive.

The rubbish we keep....lol

Sometime in the 1980s ?
We had a ZX81.
I've no idea what it could or couldn't do as it was a 'foreign' world to me.
OH later got an Amstrad and still I had no interest, but when he broke his leg and couldn't use the stairs easily to access the computer, I started to use it to read off information for him.
Now he rarely uses this one.

Gwyn.

The 1st time i used one was in 1989

Hayley..sounds like the same deal we had....im sure the scanner is still in the box in the loft lolol

First hubby had an Amstrad (does that count?. lol) in the early/mid 1980's. I showed no interest in it at all apart from using it as a word processor. His Dad built his own in the late 1970's.

We got a proper PC in 1991 but I only started using it in 2002. As someone has said I didn't even know how to switch it on.

All three of my children have been brought up with them. My eldest (28) works in IT and my youngest (16) seems to be stuck to hers, she wants to be a Games Developer.

Dunno, but it had Windows 3.1

we got ours in 1999/2000 and paid £1000 for it with a camera and scanner and printer, we got it our eldest, I never bothered it with it for about 6 years...lol dint even know how to switch it on.

1983/4 ish, as soon as it was released. It was an Acorn Electron, and OH's pride and joy, using an old small b&w TV as the monitor. We had to buy a seperate small cassette player to load or save programmes.

I think the Electron is still in the loft, somewhere. Tomorrow's antiques??

About 1993 I think ( working it back how old the children were at the time ).
Hubby got into it in a big way and began building his own, the one I am using now he built and he's done many for friends and friends of friends over the yrs. He and dau have laptops , she's on her 2nd so he's using her old one to get to grips with the insides of that, then he'll be doing those no doubt ,as long as it's cost effective, but if not he will know how to repair them :)

1985. Actualy, we got a secretary who came with her own computer. ;) She was a student and friend of my law partner, and we hired her to help in our office part-time and give her a place to work on her own research when she wasn't working for us, since we didn't have full-time work for her. She's now a professor in Japan!

Oh yes ... we kept all our standard forms on a 4.5" floppy. When I got a new assistant after that one, she put it in the drive upside down and wiped it out. So I gave her the back-up one we fortunately had. She wiped that one out too.

I got mine the next year, for working at home. A Tandy (Radio Shack). With a great big giant dot-matrix printer. Then I got one more of each to have at the office, when our assistant left and took hers with her.

After that it was an early-model laptop in the early 90s, still with no hard drive, if you can remember that! When I was doing a lot of work in WordPerfect, the computer would frequently get amnesia, and I would have to put the WP disk (a real floopy, the 4.5" ones) back in the drive so it could get its bearings.

Ah, weren't those the days. Way before the internet!

1983...lol

An Aquarius with a soft touch keyboard...aaaargh. All games on cassette, that's what sparked my then 4/5 year old son to have his fascination with all things electronic.

Sue

When did buy your 1st one

I was just thinking about when we got our 1st one......We got ours in 1998