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My first experience of computers was in Debenhams in Croydon between 1981-1983. I would go in there on Saturday mornings and type programs into the BBC Micro all day.
The sales assistants didn't seem to mind, I think it was because I seemed to know more than they did! I would type in simple programs that filled the screen with graphics or played simple tunes. In the summer holidays I would be there all day, every day. Once I even fainted from standing still for so long!
I had a look at the other computers they were selling, but the BBC was my favourite. I remember there was an Oric, a Spectrum, a VIC-20, a TI-99A, a Dragon and a few others that never took off.
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I'd played arcade games in the mid-1970s but my first experience with computers was probably at a friend's house in 1982. His dad had a couple of ZX81s playing a version of Breakout.
I started saving up for a ZX81 late in 1983, but while at another friend's house I saw Jetset Willy on his brother's Spectrum and realised I just had to get one of those instead. It meant waiting a little longer, but it was worth it.
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Ah... Being landed with a CPC at home, crammed into the corner of the dining room, and playing AA covertapes.
A very old PC of some kind my dad had at work that ran Wordstar (I think is the name?) and had a 5.25" floppy drive.
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I've been playing pinball and arcade machines since before I was tall enough to properly reach the controls, but my first experience with something programmable was when a member of my Boys' Brigade squad used a ZX81 to display our logo (an anchor) at our annual display.
Naturally, the program crashed (or the machine itself), and the guy had to come on the stage and manually fire the thing up. 
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| ERK got a picture now of Jason in a BB uniform little white sash, brown leather belt and the thunderbirds hat, did you get the gold target badge. back on topic at college in 1982 programming an unknown IBM and building a circuit board with LEDS to display at the college open day, then BBC micro at My sisters playing manic miner. Chris
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In all honesty i think the first computer i touched was the Atari 2600, pitfall was a quailty game don't really rember the others. After that I got a hand me down BBC 32B from my aunt which served me well until I left it on too long and I burnt out. I also seem to rember using a VIC-20 somewhere but can't quite rember.
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ah yes. it was a ZX81 with wobily ram pack. had no games just BASIC. I desmanted the pack to see what was inside. I think I was 8 or 9 and then I met my first love my spectrum+2 handed down from my dad I spent waayyy to much time on it.
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I think mine was getting a Commodore 64 for my 7th birthday. I loved that machine and look how far compies have come since then!
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