Charlie StrossMar 28, 2025

Toot a photo of a computer that first arrived in the year of your birth!

(Here's mine: the IBM System/360)

Show threadJohnMar 28, 2025
@cstross Mine being the Sinclair ZX80 might make you feel old, but when the kids start posting pictures of iMacs or iPads or whatever, we can all just crumble into dust together.
Show threadHugo MillsMar 28, 2025
@semanticist @cstross I started learning to write software on one of those. (I'm still learning).
Show threadJohn
@darkling @cstross My first computer was a hand-me-down 48k Spectrum, related to but not the same as the one from my birth year!
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Show threadHugo MillsMar 28, 2025

@semanticist @cstross

The '80 was borrowed from a cow-orker of my dad's. They had it back and upgraded it to an '81 the next year, and we borrowed that, too.

My dad made the mistake of leaving me alone with the manual for half an hour, and spent the next 30 years trying to catch up.

I still have the 48k model 2 Spectrum that I bought the year after that.

Show threadJohnMar 28, 2025
@darkling @cstross I kept both of my Spectrums (the 48k and one of the Amstrad-era +2As), but I did sell my Amstrad CPC 6128+, from when Amstrad thought a Z80 would be a good way to compete with the SNES in the console market…