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Discussion on: What was your first computer?

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Christopher Miller

mine was the ZX Spectrum 48K, but I later owned the ZX80 and ZX81. Those were the days, when we counted programs in literal BITS of code! It taught me some amazing stuff about management of ram, and making the most of the available usage. I actually had some of my programs etc published in some of the spectrum magazines. back when you would buy a magazine and literally type in the source code from the pages.

Oh, how i reminisce over the tape loading! 30 minutes of ADAC loading (Analogue to Digital Audio Conversion) for a game like paperboy!

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Adam Piechocki-Brown

Typing in code with hieroglyphic REM statements was always a joy...