My dad brought home a BBC micro, and had elite, brilliant, had no idea what do with it, couldn’t fly, all wireframe, crashed it all the time, kept on going
Got me hooked
In 1983 my parents bought us kids a 48k zx spectrum, with 3 games on tape
Space raiders, zipzap and minedout
Space invaders speccy style, zip zap, have to see to explain
But minedout got me interested in programming
Because it was made in back then zx basic, and I accidently pressed the “break” key on the speccy kb, which was also the space key
Up came the games listing, when I pressed “enter” key, speccy owners know what I mean
So I just needed to know how it all worked
The basic manual that came with it just didn’t show much, but I would spend days programming that little thing
Oh and manic minor, now that was brilliant
Then got a c64 and oh my word……colours!!!! And an automatic tape deck (c64 users know what I mean)
Few years later I got an A500 amiga……4096 colours, AMOS!!!! 4megs ram, 1 meg chip ram, upgraded it to a hardrive, 138 megs!!
The Amiga to me is still the best computer I ever had
my early years best spent was my speccy and amiga
theres an ELO song called ticket to the moon
the 1st verse is this
“Remember the good old 1980's
When things were so uncomplicated
I wish I could go back there again
And everything could be the same”