Just wondered where it all started for everyone and when

various consoles strting with the old pong type back in 1977 then.......

i got a Sinclair ZX81 with a 16k ram pack (all that memory!) around 1987 then............
Sinclair Spectrum
Spectrum 128k (it had a built in tape player and 128k of ram!!)
Commodore 64
Commodore Amiga (fantastic piece of kit)

Lost in console land starting with the Megadrive the playstation 1 then PS2

got back into pc's in a serious way in 2000 when i bought one from the dreaded PC World (how was i to know i knew nothing of pc's )

then i built my first PC in 2001 and never looked back

My first PC was a Pentium 4 2.4Ghz with an Nvidia 32Mb graphics card with 256mb of ram and a 40gb harddrive, I built it from scratch when I was 12, using nothing more than the motherboard manual, took me 12 hours to do, but when your building something you have never built before and you spent $1500 (AUD) you dont want to screw it up. installed XP from my stolen XP cd (my poor uncle) and never experienced a problem until my older sister got ahold of it 2 years ago. I couldnt be bothered fixing it, so I made my next computer, the one I have now.

My first experience with even seeing a computer was in the 70's when my Mother ran a "terminal" to keep up with their yarn inventory for a huge carpet mill. In the early 90's I had a web t.v. We all thought that was really something! I have had several computers since then I now have a Gateway 8GB/640 mb. What an amazing difference!

Originally Posted by z3r010

/rave break at the hacienda and bowlers for a few years

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ahhhhhhhh i didnt mention my twilight years 89-94 After Dark club (Orbit) at morley near leeds , warehouse Doncaster all the big 12 hour raves in the area Galactica etc clubbing in and around Leeds and Manchester i even frquented Bowlers a few times we may even have crossed paths..............id never remmeber though

Commodore 64
Commodore 128 (Personal Computer - This was the large case version)
Nintendo 64
Gameboy (The Donkey Kong Yellow Version)
Compaq Pentium 1 (Not sure of the rest)
PSOne (The small one)
PS2 (Slimline)
Dell Dimension 8200 P4 2.2ghz - 728mb RAMBUS Ram - Nvidia 32mb (upgraded to a ATI Radeon Sapphire 256mb, then realised how crap ATI was)

My first build was a

CORE 2 QUAD Q9300 2.5ghz - Kingston Hyper-x 800mhz 8gb - XFX 780i SLI - 2x Nvidia 8800 Ultra in an Antec Three hundred

Upgraded to Striker II Extreme - OCZ Reaper-X 8gb 1333mhz

Next upgrade to include CORE 2 QUAD Q9650 3.0Ghz - Nvidia 300 Series (when released)