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| Trying to build the equivalent of a Halda "Speed Pilot" from electronics rather than gears. As operational amplifiers were not available cheaply at the time ( '62 ish) I failed. Next thing many years later, build a calculator. (It worked) Then I had a brilliant idea - I bought an Atari 2600, spent days trying to outfox it at pontoon - failed there too.
Oldphart: The original grumpy pedant!
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The La-li-lu-le-lo! How’s that possible!?
woo hoo! winner of caption compo 923
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Mine would be using a BBC (not sure which one) back in 1988 - 89?? Cant remember really. I remember it having two 5 1/2 inch floppy drives and a tape drive, and playing games like Citadel, chuckie egg etc on it. Not too long after I had an Acorn A1000, then an A4000. Then after that my first desktop PC, some 100MHz thing.
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Core 2 Duo E4400, Gigabyte GA 965P-S3, 580W Hiper TypeR,
4GB Patriot PC6400, 512MB Sapphire X1950Pro, WinXP SP3, Dell 2007WFP
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When I were a lad of 16 (in 1981), a colleague in my first job lent me his Sinclair ZX80 to play with for a week and I was hooked! 
A few weeks later when the Sinclair assembly staff went out on strike, Sir Clive started selling the ZX81 in kit form for £50. Sinclair User magazine had a £20 discount voucher which put the kit just within my financial reach.
They weren't kidding about it being a kit either. The was a bare circuit board and a bag of components along with a circuit diagram. Four hours later, I switched it on and it worked. Woohoo!
Much fun was had building my own peripherals over the next year or so until the launch of the rubber-keyed 48K ZX Spectrum. I sold my ZX81 along with all of the custom bits and pieces and bought one.
A BBC Model-B motherboard and keyboard (minus case and power supply) came my way shortly after and the building frenzy started all over again. LOL
My first PC was a secondhand 4.77MHz Philips-badged 8086 with a MASSIVE 640KB of RAM and a 20MB (yes, MegaByte) MFM hard drive in 1986(?).
Etc, etc... 
Happy days!
Cheers, Slipstreem. 
System specs:
"Phoenix" / "The '43' Special" - 1.8GHz Intel C2D E4300 overclocked to 2.83GHz with ACF7Pro HSF on Volt-modded ASRock 775Dual-VSTA mobo (modded BIOS rev 3.10A, VNB=1.65, Vagp=1.8), 1GB Vitesta DDR500 RAM (2.5,3,3,7,1T @ DDR472MHz), Jetway ATI X1950Pro 256MB GDDR3 PCIe graphics card with modded AC Accelero X2 cooler dynamically overclocked to 650MHz GPU & 1.5GHz RAM. Powered by Hiper Type-M 580W PSU. Guess who likes overclocking on a budget. 
MP3 Encoding for Audiophiles
Fun MPEG-4 Encoding Race
MPEG-4 Playback Enhancement Using FFDShow
How good is the Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro HSF really?
Boosting ATI Framerates with CCC (X700 on)
Optimise ATI Image Quality And Framerates With ATT (X1XXX Series under WinXP)
   
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| Owned almost main computers at one time or another,here goes... first EVER> commadore16...the true definition of pain.That comment applies to EVERY tape-based machine!!! Then in no order:bbc-electron,commadoreVIC-20,spectrum48k,commadore64,atari64,atariST,commadoreAmiga500,amd k-600 PC,AmdAthelon700mhz,intelCeleron700mhz,IntelPentinum3-1000mhz,AmdAthelon1.2mhz.And then to skt939 then onto core2 as in sig...no mention is made of BASTRODEISED pc hybrids(amigaCD32,c64console ect...). Or the many dozens of consoles and add-ons which must run into the thousands The best machine? the PC for its pure adaptibility!
"One mans piracy is another mans dead parrot"
Main:Abitab9Pro,c2d-e6300@2.800,1024A-data extreme ed-ddr800,asus8800gts,1xsamsung spinpoint250HD,xi-fi,logitech5500-5.1spkrs,logitechG7,saitekk/b.
Backup:pentinum3 1ghz,256mb-pc100,20gb-hdd,4xDVD-rom.
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Pentium
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Went to PC Weird....need i say more? 
Intel e7200 @ 4.0GHz (4.16GHz SP) Lapped Asus P5E-VM 4Gb Patriot Pc6400 4-4-4-12 250Gb Samsung Spinpoint Sapphire ATI 3870/Akasa Vortexx Neo Enermax 600 Watt PSU Ubuntu/Win XP All in a Thermaltake Handbag... Try some MM Super Pi(e) here!
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First used Acorn Electrons - We were taught BASIC programming in the top class of primary school, so glad we did!
ZX81 was the first I owned - I thought it was one of those computer-style pencil cases at first - then I saw the PSU... £5 in a charity shop in about 1989, soon upgraded to a BBC B which was a great machine, got some cheap speccys for gaming... (needed a few because the keyboards kept failing). Then Amigas lasted me until 1999.
Simon
ZX81, Spectrum, HX20, BBC Micro, A500, A1200(25Mhz '030, 2GB HD), RiscPC (SA), Mac Mini G4, Athlon XP2500 (ATI X800)
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| Not a lot of peeps know this (but you do now). British Airways were going to fit their aircraft out with Beebs - the company I then worked for did the metalwork for the prototype, but rate of change killed it.
Oldphart: The original grumpy pedant!
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