First computers or pre PC computer history

[Stottie Girl]

Well this thread is making me feel young! I have never heard of a lot of these. Were some of them steam powered lol?!

Seriously though, I'm glad to see there are a lot of fellow Vic-20 users out there. We are a rare breed in the UK.

[Charlotte Kitty ✅]

I was too young to have any of those computers at the time! We used BBC micros at primary school and then Acorn Archimedes at high school. It was Acorn computers that then created ARM which is behind basically every RISC mobile phone processor and modern microcontroller. So at least something big from the UK that still exists.

Charlotte 😻

[davina61]

XP21 with an Xpander memory card/unit. Still have it somewhere in the ex's loft. I got it to learn a bit about how they worked and wrote a simple game called guess the depth of oil, if you got it right the oil rig gushed and filled the screen. Commodore C64 Terminator game set with floppy disc ,cassette reader and some how to books. Then got a tower in which I fitted a gaming card, we spent hours playing Worms!!!

[Stottie Girl]

I was too young to have any of those computers at the time! We used BBC micros at primary school and then Acorn Archimedes at high school. It was Acorn computers that then created ARM which is behind basically every RISC mobile phone processor and modern microcontroller. So at least something big from the UK that still exists.

Charlotte 😻

Acorn Archimedes! That was the one I couldn't remeber! Thanks Charlotte. I knew I had used an Acorn but couldn't remember the model.

[Stottie Girl]

XP21 with an Xpander memory card/unit. Still have it somewhere in the ex's loft. I got it to learn a bit about how they worked and wrote a simple game called guess the depth of oil, if you got it right the oil rig gushed and filled the screen. Commodore C64 Terminator game set with floppy disc ,cassette reader and some how to books. Then got a tower in which I fitted a gaming card, we spent hours playing Worms!!!

Worms and Lemmings were class games!

[Jessica_Rose ✅]

The first computer I ever used belonged to a neighbor. It was late 1978, and a Heathkit H8 with a cassette and 48k of memory had me hooked. I think the first computer game I ever played was 'Adventure', and then 'Star Trek'. There were no graphics back then, the games were text-only. I spent many hours at his house.

Love always -- Jessica Rose

[KathyLauren]

Heathkit H8

Yay!  Another Heathkit user, from the age of dinosaurs.

the first computer game I ever played was 'Adventure',

I didn't know that they ported Adventure to the H8.  It was a staple in the PDP-11 world, and I had it on my H11.  I even remember the opening: "You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike." 

For all you younguns, Adventure was the very first role-playing game ever.  No graphics, just text.

[KathyLauren]

It was around long before JAVA

I knew the guy who invented Java, James Gosling.  He went to my high school and was a year behind me at university.