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Trooper

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Well, Hi there everyone.

I stumbled upon this site by "accident" when googling for information on some old computer and it seems like a nice place so I thought I'd join up :)

I'm a 34 year old retromaniac from Sweden with a particular soft spot for Atari's 8-bit computerline. My first computer was a ZX81 that I got from a relative in 1981 on which I took my first stumbling steps in the world of BASIC programming. I figured out that you could fit about 40 lines of BASIC code in the ZX81's 1KB of RAM, this led to a need to program efficiantly if you wanted the computer to do something remotely useful or funny :)

Some years later I finally retired the ZX81 and bought an Atari 130XE, I had initially tought of getting a Commodore 64 but since you got a 128KB Atari for less than the price of the C64 I settled on the Atari and never looked back! I really loved that machine and had it for many years. My next computer was an Atari 520ST and after that a PC which is to boring to talk about :)

I guess you could say I've been collecting since 1981 since I've never thrown out any of my old computers but kept them all when upgrading. I now have a small collection of computers and videogames that I quite enjoy looking at, I never have the time to actually use the old machines so looking is as far as it'll get most of the time :)

Well, hope to have fun here!

/T
 
Me too

Me too

Glad to hear of more folks that never throw anything away. ;) I have all of my original equipment from when I was young along with friends' and family's old hand-me-downs, too. Seeing as how I have been playing with this stuff since the early 80s (starting with an Apple ][+), it amounts to quite a number of different machines. Welcome!
 
Thanks everyone! Seems like a very interesting place this forum :)

Hey Zeela, I saw that both you and carlsson were registered here so I thought it must be a good place to hang out :) Isn't it funny, you never seem to able to shake me, everytime you think I'm gone you turn another corner and there I am bidding low on everything you want to sell ;) :)

/T
 
Welcome! On the other hand, the more forums frequented by the same visitors, the harder it is to sneak a bargain from another collector. :p
 
Hiya Trooper,

Trooper said:
My first computer was a ZX81 that I got from a relative in 1981 on which I took my first stumbling steps in the world of BASIC programming.
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Yes they were a common first system here too. Boy that multifunction keyboard takes a bit of getting used to though! :)

Welcome to the forums!
 
Welcome! Yet another ZX-81 user....

I've never had one of those(or anything similar) yet. My first computer was an AT&T 6300 back in 1994(I was 2, still have it), and in 2006 I bought my first computer with my own money, an Apple IIc. But I hope to soon get something like a Commodore, or perhaps an Atari....

--Ryan
 
Yeah I was about to say the same thing, the ZX-81 seems to be the common theme for a first computer for many of the new "recruits". I actually own a couple of the Timex/Sinclair 1000's with the 16K expansion packs -- the funny thing is that my first exposure to that computer was oddly enough, the public library. I was actually able to check out the computer via my library card, and take it home for a week. Unfortunately they didn't allow unlimited renewals, though.

Welcome aboard Trooper!
 
Thanks for the warm welcome everyone!

I don't know how common the ZX81 was here in Sweden, I never met anyone else who'd had one until just a couple of years ago.
 
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