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I had the pleasure of coming across some of my old systems in the garage today, including my first game console the Videomaster Superscore (1976) and my first computer the ZX Spectrum 48k (1982). I had to take some pics of them all together, a kind of family reunion of my favourite tech items. It's amazing to think how far technology has advanced since I was in short trousers I thought I would post them for others who like to dwell in nostalgia as much as I do

Apologies for the quality of the pics, my N95 had a dose of the blurrycams..









I wrote my first program on the spectrum 48k as a child, it was hangman. I can honestly say that computer shaped my life and is the reason I am the professional programmer I am today. Good job mom and dad! The N900 has introduced me to Linux, Qt, and MeeGo.. will it shape my future.. who knows!??
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This brings back memories. I kind of wish I still had some of my old computers. My family had a Spectrum like that (I can't remember if it was a 16k or 48k) when I was little, and then a Spectrum+ (the one with the plastic keyboard, then a Spectrum+2 with the built-in tape loader and a better keyboard. It definitely played a significant part in my childhood and introduced me to programming, although I never achieved much in the way of programs, aside from some that just did basic input and output.
 

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ZX Spectrum 48K ... I had it too, but my first Mini PC was a Sinclair ZX80 ... We are in pre-history!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_ZX80
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mine was the C64
 

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It's incredible isn't it? Although we don't have hover cars, silver tracksuits or robot butlers, the amount of science fiction that has become science fact is crazy...

A while back i spotted something interesting peeping out of a rubbish bag out on the street. On further investigation i found the bag contained pretty much every iteration of sinclair computer starting from the zx81 right up to the 128k+

Incidentally, you can still buy zx81s in kit form...
 

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i started with 3kb internal mem back in teh stoneage
 

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10 PRINT "Nice"
20 PRINT "pics"
30 PRINT "kojacker"
40 PRINT ""
50 GOTO 10
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Originally Posted by marxian View Post
10 PRINT "Nice"
20 PRINT "pics"
30 PRINT "kojacker"
40 PRINT ""
50 GOTO 10
if you have C64 version of basic, I think you can put a ";" at the end of line 10, 20, 30 to put the words in one line for better readability
 
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You forgot

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It's incredible to think that a screenshot these days is much larger than the entire RAM that those old computers had.
 

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