AndyF

I am a bit of old movies buff. My most favorite movies are: Gone with the Wind and Casablanca. 
 

I've had 2+ screens for over 6 years. 3 screens is amazing. With the curved monitors and all I'm basically surrounded by monitors. It makes my life easier for at a glance views and whatnot. I actually don't use my multiple screens for gaming. Only work and hobby's.

Thanks @Matt ?
@MMXII As you asked earlier in your reply, the said 'A look back' screenshots still exist, although I do not currently have them hosted anywhere they are merely sat in neatly split zips per each major version. ?

I did say "older" ;) hehe.

A little old @AndyF I can swear you sent that picture to me like 5 years ago. ?

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I don't like current behaviour of highlighting because it works for every posts, does not matter if this post important or not (i.e. "official staff answer" or "staff member's comment on kittens photo"). I'd prefer to have an option below editor. Posted this also as suggestion in feedback and ideas section. Please support(reaction/comment - any activity) this topic if you need it too.

Would it be gauche of me to remember out loud that I liked Blue Max even though I sucked at it, and that I played a lot more of Zaxxon on my Colecovision?
 

COMTRAN & COBOL

Mine was also a ZX81 at home and some weekly lessons at school which involved punching cards and reading paper-tape but for the life of me I can’t remember what we were trying to make the thing do!
After that I have recollections of an RML380Z at secondary school: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_Machines_380Z

ZX Spectrum** in 1984, see I'm showing my age now *sigh*
**This was sold as a  'Timex' for those 'across the pond', well it was almost the same machine anyway.
Later on, a BBC Micro. I still code a little bit to this day for the Spectrum too, being involved in the 'retro' scene as such, and we have released a few new games over the past couple of years although they are based on a core engine of an existing game, extensively modified however in nearly every way.
I do not have much of a 'collection' these days although I have somehow managed to hang on to about 60% of the tape based software I purchased 'back then' although I do own a couple of Spectrums and a few BBC Micro's  as well as an Amstrad 464 and an Oric Atmos, all were very good machines in their day in their own ways.
I did have a slightly similar thing happen to me as happened to Matt regarding 'teacher incorrectly assuming' things, most annoying at the time. this too on the BBC Micro as that was used in about 95% of schools "back then" given its general ruggedness and ease of expansion.
 
 
A school friend had one , complete with the plus3 and plus 1 'expansions' IIRC. They had the ADFS "L shaped" addon drive for sure. It was a decent machine, my only real caveat about it was the lack of Mode7 really as the other modes ate a bit too much precious ram...

I don't know man.. my dad had all kind of devices and boxy machinery, I can only remember this.
 

My first personal computing experiences (as opposed to coding) were playing the Zork text adventures on my brother's old Commodore 64 (one of the first thousand made apparently) and listening to Queen's Greatest Hits and Rush's 2112 over and over again.
My first coding experience was writing a multiple-choice quiz program in BASIC on my IBM PCjr.
Yes, you heard right - IBM PCjr.  Yes, I did buy one of those....

Wow, that brings back good memories.
Mine was a ZX81 (1K RAM) ... can you imagine that 1K, yet it worked fine, was a friends that he showed me when I visited him.
I was so impressed that I ordered a ZX Spectrum 48 (this was 48K memory) a few weeks later then had to purchase a cassette recorder to connect to it to load the games, I remember getting that on credit and was so pleased when I got it, eventually started to try and write my own games (in Basic as it was called then)
I used to play games on that but got fed up losing all my lives (usually 3 or 5) and having to start game again so started to learn to 'hack' into the game and changing the code to get endless lives.
Then progressed to Spectrum 128+ (128K ... ok you already guessed that I suppose) with disc drive and managed to convert all my games (which were on cassette tape) to the discs and carried playing games and still practise Basic code and then the Z80 code which was fairly simple at the time for me. Bought books and magazines to help me. I still have some of the old discs lying around (some still with the games on and some unused as well) but sadly no Spectrum
Had that one for years and still had it when got married and got the wife playing some games as well, some nights up until 4am (no idea where the time went as ... 'just one more game then go to bed' and before we knew it we found it was 4am)
Good times had with those, but ask me about the code of nowadays ... forget it .... wouldn't even know where to even start.
 

Mine was a commodore 64 that i got in '86 for my bday (i'm still angry DAD, i had asked for a NES! got that for xmas tho lol) but i'm glad he did, i learned a lot about computers from it (oddly enough not a whole lot about programming lol). I had scratched my initials into the back of it, with an infinity symbol (cause i was obsessed with the concept of infinity when i was a kid). sold it at a garage sale in 92 when my dad had gotten me a second hand macintosh. then years later, around 2012 i was at a salvation army thrift store with my sister, looking around. saw a shelf filled with old computer parts, and found a few commodore 64's and when i flipped the one over i found my initials and the infinity symbol. it made me smile that it was still out there. I didn't buy it, it needed another master .

ZX Spectrum** in 1984, see I'm showing my age now *sigh*
**This was sold as a  'Timex' for those 'across the pond', well it was almost the same machine anyway.
Later on, a BBC Micro. I still code a little bit to this day for the Spectrum too, being involved in the 'retro' scene as such, and we have released a few new games over the past couple of years although they are based on a core engine of an existing game, extensively modified however in nearly every way.
I do not have much of a 'collection' these days although I have somehow managed to hang on to about 60% of the tape based software I purchased 'back then' although I do own a couple of Spectrums and a few BBC Micro's  as well as an Amstrad 464 and an Oric Atmos, all were very good machines in their day in their own ways.
I did have a slightly similar thing happen to me as happened to Matt regarding 'teacher incorrectly assuming' things, most annoying at the time. this too on the BBC Micro as that was used in about 95% of schools "back then" given its general ruggedness and ease of expansion.
 
 
A school friend had one , complete with the plus3 and plus 1 'expansions' IIRC. They had the ADFS "L shaped" addon drive for sure. It was a decent machine, my only real caveat about it was the lack of Mode7 really as the other modes ate a bit too much precious ram...

What, nobody first used the Acorn Electron?
So many memories. 

My experience was:
Apple at school (Hyper Turtle yeah!) C64 at a friend Schneider CPC 464 (first own computer) Amiga 600 / 1200 And finally, here's a song for you.
 

For the curious: I do not watch that much TV these days in general, with exceptions being various documentaries.
Currently however I'm watching the late 60's sci-fi series 'The Invaders' as and when it is showing on TV and my PVR decides to actually behave and record it. I do have an interest in 60's and 70's sci-Fi series's generally however although I have not seen that many apart from the odd episode here and there.

For those old enough Gunsmoke. 

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