What was your 1st computer?

[Scouser]

Remember your first computer?

I do. It was a Spectrum ZX81. It had 1K of memory and a touch-sensitive keyboard. I also had a 16K RAM Expansion Pack which I had to plug into the back. I think I must have about 5 years old and it must have cost my parents a lot of money at the time.

It was brand new, boxed with all the manuals, leads etc. – everything you needed to join the new home computer revolution.

All I knew was that I had to set it up, which I did.

It blew me away. Give that to a kid now and watch them scoff in disgust and confusion. Me, I was captivated by it. I can still remember playing a text-based pacman on it. Then there was BASIC…

10 PRINT “DAVID THORNE WAS HERE”
20 GOTO 10

DAVID THORNE WAS HERE
DAVID THORNE WAS HERE
DAVID THORNE WAS HERE
DAVID THORNE WAS HERE
DAVID THORNE WAS HERE
DAVID THORNE WAS HERE
DAVID THORNE WAS HERE
DAVID THORNE WAS HERE
DAVID THORNE WAS HERE
DAVID THORNE WAS HERE
…………

Mind-Blowing! (Well, I was 5)

I was hooked. Have been ever since. That computer and every one I’ve ever had since then hold’s special memories for me (I’m have a ROM memory! Sometimes it’s RAM!)

I could go on and on…..

I just wish I had kept them all. They’re like little babies that you don’t want to grow up…..I know I haven’t!