A ZX81... My father wrote a little "etch-a-sketch" Program for it... that kept me amused for hours... This was when I was about 3 or 4... when I was about 6 or 7 I found the ZX81 Basic Manual and wrote loads of programs most of while I pain-stakingly saved to cassette, only to find most would never load again...
You had to be really careful too if you wobbled the power jack the machine would reset.
In '88, I was in acomputer class at school and my teacher was really impressed as I was far in advace of the rest of the class... he asked me if I had a BBC at home, I told him I had a ZX81... he got really excited and dissappeared for about 10min, only to return with a 16K ram pack!! Which he have to me. THat was nice, I could then load up a chess game that needed 16k...
Then in 1989, it was decided to get me a new computer... I wanted an 286 like my mate had... or maybe an ST like another friend... then in the back of the shop there was an A500, which after about 10mins of playing with I decided I wanted.
