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Due to the lads posting picks of their Spectrum's got me thinking, how did you get to where you are today?

Tandy TRS-80 (oh yeah baby!!!!)
8088 processor, 640k ram, 4 Mb HDD, CGA graphics (California Games, Kings Quest 3, SPace Quest 2, Leisure Suit Larry, Elite)
P100, 8 Mb ram, 1 MB gfx card 40 Mb HDD (Frontier: FFE, Syndicate, Cannon Fodder, Megalomania, Populous)
PII-266Mhz 32 Mb RAM, 200 Mb HDD
PIII-700Mhz forget the ram and disk space
P4 (horrible, horrible machine, mobo only had PCI in a world of AGP)
AMD 62 X2 4400, 1Gb RAM, 250GB HDD, GeForce 7900GS
E8400, 500Gb HDD 2Gb Ram, 8800GTS 512
E8400, 1.5Tb HDD, 4 Gb RAM, GTX560 Ti

I want to see some classics in here!!!!!
 

BBC micro computer 16kb RAM & 2mhz

Amiga 68000

Then started building my own

currently have a 2011 Macbook Pro 13'' with 8GB ram and 620GB HD and an i7 sandy bridge processor

and a HP 4320s with a i3 processor and a 4GB of RAM
 
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Dylan said:
Due to the lads posting picks of their Spectrum's got me thinking, how did you get to where you are today?

Tandy TRS-80 (oh yeah baby!!!!)
8088 processor, 640k ram, 4 Mb HDD, CGA graphics (California Games, Kings Quest 3, SPace Quest 2, Leisure Suit Larry, Elite)
P100, 8 Mb ram, 1 MB gfx card 40 Mb HDD (Frontier: FFE, Syndicate, Cannon Fodder, Megalomania, Populous)
PII-266Mhz 32 Mb RAM, 200 Mb HDD
PIII-700Mhz forget the ram and disk space
P4 (horrible, horrible machine, mobo only had PCI in a world of AGP)
AMD 62 X2 4400, 1Gb RAM, 250GB HDD, GeForce 7900GS
E8400, 500Gb HDD 2Gb Ram, 8800GTS 512
E8400, 1.5Tb HDD, 4 Gb RAM, GTX560 Ti

I want to see some classics in here!!!!!
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Posted while the match is on.

Defo a classic.

Everton vs the wools. 2011.

Available on DVD and jarg betamax.
 

Spectrum 128K
Gameboy
Commodore Amiga 1200
Sega Saturn
Crappy PC for uni
Sony Playstation
Sony Playstation 2
Sony Playstation 3
 
amstrad 464

then a windows 95 cost a bucket and had 1gb hdd and about a flea of ram!

then a vista (which blew up yes bang smoke the lot about 4 weeks ago)

so now begging for a turn on my daughters laptop!
 

Spectrum 48k.

Commodore 64.

Atari ST.

(gap where I renounced money, tools and electronics and lived a peaceful agrarian existence living on a diet of bark, nuts and berries)

Mac G3.

Powerbook.

Macbook

2nd Macbook.
 
My 3 best mates.....

One was a PC guy, him and his dad went through just about every processor.....286, 386 SX, 386 DX, 386 DX2, 486 SX/SX2/DX/DX2 etc etc.

One was an Amiga guy, proclaimed superiority based on the fact he had an Amiga

One was an Atari ST guy, proclaimed superiority based on the fact he had an ST.

:lol:

The Amiga and ST were basically the same hardware, the Motorola 68000 series processor (also in use in the Mega Drive/Genesis, Space Shuttle (critical systems), Neo Geo and on the Saturn for audio processing)


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If I include consoles as well, I need to add a Gameboy, Mega Drive, 32X, Playstation, Playstation 2, Xbox, Xbox 360, DS, DS Lite, PSP.
 
Dylan said:
My 3 best mates.....

One was a PC guy, him and his dad went through just about every processor.....286, 386 SX, 386 DX, 386 DX2, 486 SX/SX2/DX/DX2 etc etc.

One was an Amiga guy, proclaimed superiority based on the fact he had an Amiga

One was an Atari ST guy, proclaimed superiority based on the fact he had an ST.

:lol:

The Amiga and ST were basically the same hardware, the Motorola 68000 series processor (also in use in the Mega Drive/Genesis, Space Shuttle (critical systems), Neo Geo and on the Saturn for audio processing)


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If I include consoles as well, I need to add a Gameboy, Mega Drive, 32X, Playstation, Playstation 2, Xbox, Xbox 360, DS, DS Lite, PSP.
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The arguments these two would have as to which system was better.......:lol:

Which one ran Premier Manager 3 or Populous better.....:lol:
 
fozzy said:
amstrad 464

then a windows 95 cost a bucket and had 1gb hdd and about a flea of ram!

then a vista (which blew up yes bang smoke the lot about 4 weeks ago)

so now begging for a turn on my daughters laptop!
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:lol: Awesome!!! Be the dad and confiscate it for punishment or something.........
 
I fondly remember the great amiga / Atari St debate.

I was on the side of the Atari but I realised half way through that the amiga was the slightly superior machine (madden was much better on it for example) and was left in the crap position of having to defend it knowing it was a bunch of ****.

I think I cracked in the end and got an Amiga and hid it when my mate came round.
 

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