My Old Computer Set-Up- From Around '87/'88

and a kemston joystick

God, that photo brings back memories. I think I had the same wall paper when I was 3.

Those were the days. I had a Memotech 128

Specs

NAME RS 128
MANUFACTURER Memotech
TYPE Home Computer
ORIGIN United Kingdom
YEAR 1984
CPU Zilog Z80 A
SPEED 4 MHz
RAM 128 KB (up to 512 KB)
VRAM 16 KB
ROM 24 KB
TEXT MODES 40 x 25 / 32 x 24
GRAPHIC MODES four modes, maximum : 256 x 192
COLORS 16 maximum
SOUND 3 voices / 6 octaves
I/O PORTS RGB, Joystick (2), Cardridge, Tape, Audio, Centronics, RS232, Bus

Now that was a piece of true power.

How snappy is safari on that thing?

queshy said:

How snappy is safari on that thing?

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As snappy as a dead snapping turtle

It looked something like this, from Wikipaedia Commons:

It can play Crysis though yeah?

ahhhh, those good old times ... snief

duncyboy said:

I was always an Amiga guy but my mate had an ST. I remember the bee mouse cursor!

The only game we ever played on it was Night Hunter. Classic!

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I wasted hours on the ST when Sim City appeared. Something called Arctic Fox as well.

duncyboy said:

A ZX Spectrum 128K, Kempston joystick and tape recorder for games

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Beautiful! Amazing to think all that processing power in the photo can be emulated and stored by a nano-particle of what sits on our desktops now

i had this setup around 84-85.

my 87-88 setup was a generic 286.

Great stuff! I think by time 87/88 rolled around I ditched my Atari 800 and was playing Nintendo 24/7. Didn't get my next computer until 1992.

i also had a tiny B/W TV! do kids these days even know that existed?

About 10-15 years ago we had one of these beasts at home



The amstrad megapc! A mega drive and a rubbish 386 PC all in one!!

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/comfychair/pcgames/megapc.htm

I still got my Atari 800XL. I have 2 drives for it...one is not in the picture. I also have an an atari 1200 baud modem too

contoursvt said:

I still got my Atari 800XL. I have 2 drives for it...one is not in the picture. I also have an an atari 1200 baud modem too

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I have fond memories of my 800XL, with a single FDD and a letter quality 1027 printer. An LQ printer at that price was unheard of in 1983 although the letters didn't always line up perfectly.
I remember dos 2.5 was actually better than dos 3.0 and was in demand.

Ah yes I remember that printer. I think I had a Panasonic 1080i or something like that. It was a 9-pin. I ended up with something called SpartaDOS. That was wicked

jodelli said:

I have fond memories of my 800XL, with a single FDD and a letter quality 1027 printer. An LQ printer at that price was unheard of in 1983 although the letters didn't always line up perfectly.
I remember dos 2.5 was actually better than dos 3.0 and was in demand.

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rychencop said:

i had this setup around 84-85.

my 87-88 setup was a generic 286.

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that gives me horrible flashbacks of highschool.... and loderunner

contoursvt said:

I still got my Atari 800XL. I have 2 drives for it...one is not in the picture. I also have an an atari 1200 baud modem too

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I had a 600XL. All my mates had Spectrums and C64s but I got the Atari because... it looked nicer! I was forking out £30 for cartridges when my mates were paying pennies for their tapes - but it looked nicer. Atari were the Apple of their day in that respect...