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| I had my parent's old Grey Speccy +2 in 1996, used to go on their Amiga A1200 and play Lotus Turbo Challenge 2 In 1999 I was given an amiga A600. Then parents bought me an amiga A1200 with memory upgrade and HD in 1999 (You see I was only 9) and had that one set up until I started my GCSE's of which then I need something that was easily compatible with the school system. I still have all of the retro computers that I initally used bar the Speccy but I started getting into collecting them when I was 12 when me and some friend found a stash of BBC B's in a rather large cupboard!!
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| My first computer was an Acorn Electron was my christmas present in 1982.........cost £299.99 i spent a lot of time on that computer and i still have it now up in my loft ,works perfectly. the one thing i do remember about them was the power supply was not very robust it supplys something like 19v and if it broke you had a hard time getting a replacement
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For me it all started with using a BBC computer at school when I was ~5.
I continued using various BBCs and later Acorns (right up to an awesome A3020  )
In ~1998/99 we bought all of the redundant Acorns / BBCs off the School.
We also aquired two Acorn Archemides (sp?) machines from the same source.
We've also (still got) a 486 machine which we aquired in 2000/1 (I think)
Finally in 2002 we moved onto a P2 266 then a P3 450 and now a P3 1GHz.
....Does anybody know where I can find 'Tanks' anywhere? I wondered if someone had ported it to DOS etc?
Rig#1 (Mine) - Intel C2D E2140||ASRock 4CoreDual-VSTA||1GB(2x512MB) OCZ Performance PC3500||ATi Rage...PCI (I killed the 6800GT  )||Excelstor 80GB IDE; 2x 250GB Maxtor IDE; 320GB Maxtor SATA||NEC ND-3540A||Windows XP
Rig#2 (Family) - Intel P3 1GHz||Compaq mobo/384(3x128)MB RAM||HIS Radeon 9250||Seagate 20GB IDE||Lite-On CD-RW||Windows XP Pro
Rig#3 (acting as a router ) - Intel P3 450MHz||MSI mobo||128MB RAM||20GB IDE||Windows XP-mini
Brother's: AMD Sempron 2800+ // ECS Nforce3-A // PNY Geforce 6600GT // 1GB (2x 512MB) RAM // 80GB HDD
Still under constuction....
Rig#4 - (Folding#1) - P3 450MHz||128MB (2x64MB) RAM||Windows XP-mini
Rigs#5&6 - (Folding#2&3) - P2 350MHz||128MB (2x64MB) RAM||Windows XP-mini
Rig#7 - (Folding#4) - Celeron 366MHz||128MB (2x64MB) RAM||Windows XP-mini
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| Got to be type in listings for me old ZX81 and 48k Speccy. First ever computer used was PET at school, sceond being a ZX80.
Three more days till Halloween, Halloween, Halloween,
Three more days till Halloween
Silver Shamrock.
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