Age yourself with your first computer. - ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

ellico2020bis.bsky.social•101 days ago

Cool! (Still have mine, but I fried it trying to rig a reset button to the edge connector with gator clips, probably within a year of getting it, because I'm like that)
https://bsky.app/profile/ellico2020bis.bsky.social/post/3lb23sh6awc2t

reply

guysegal.bsky.social•103 days ago

I took Logo classes on a ZX

reply

zenwork.bsky.social•103 days ago

Spectravideo SV-318, quickly followed by an Apple ][e
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SV-318?wprov=sfla1

reply

blizzardbella.bsky.social•103 days ago

reply

conortwomey.bsky.social•103 days ago

We had a ZX81 first before upgrading to a ZX Spectrum and then a Commodore 64

reply

sturobson.com•103 days ago

it wasn’t long after this (if my memory serves me correctly) we upgraded(‽) to an Acorn Electron

reply

stephenhunt.ca•102 days ago

The original Commodore PET with the cassette storage and "chicklit" keyboard. We were poor high school students and tried to keep multiple programs on one cassette tape, which led to some very precise fast-forwarding with a stop watch! It had 4 KB of memory, which we frequently exhausted.

reply

ghedley.bsky.social•102 days ago

Yes, that one was a game of chance - would you be the pupil whose perfectly crafted code would suddenly have randomly replaced characters making a mangled mess unrunnable.

reply