My first personal computer... Timex Sinclair 1000

Programs were loaded/saved via cassette tape. I learned how to write programs in BASIC.

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Um modelo PC1512, sim é um XT

Red Balloon

My first big digital love affair... *sigh*

The IBM 5100 portable PC was released in 1975 for $20,000 ( oldcomputers.net/ibm5100.html . The 5100 is the grandfather of the 5150 ( oldcomputers.net/ibm5150.htm )

We had one of these.

Havia um Apple II no evento, aliás era o único!

MacBook (A1181) and 1st-generation iPhone (A1203).

It still works! Now to try and remember how you load files off Microdrive... there's also a mod my eldest brother did for me to get composite video out. That's the cable snaking off at the top. Note the Psion software starter pack - whatever happened to them?!

Arguably the most important part of the ZX Spectrum was the BASIC programming manual which taught a generation of schoolkids something of the fundamentals of coding.

NOW WHERE THE FRICK IS MY RASPBERRY PI!?

Not the first computer I ever used (I think that would be my brother's KIM1), but this was the first computer we had in the house (see below).

The time has gone

This is all what I have

See the time pass in front of me

And know, that I'll never live again

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[CCEN - UFPB]

Old Machine interfaces found at The Black Hole, an amazing industrial surplus store.

Old Machine interfaces found at The Black Hole, an amazing industrial surplus store.

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Old Machine interfaces found at The Black Hole, an amazing industrial surplus store.

It's so old that it's an event when it's on. So much of an event that I had to put spinning warning lights beside it to show how important it truly was.

You can see that the printer closes up nicely, but the paper roll has to be detached.

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Old Machine interfaces found at The Black Hole, an amazing industrial surplus store.

Old Machine interfaces found at The Black Hole, an amazing industrial surplus store.

Goodbye, Netscape.

Macintosh IIsi (M0360) with Macintosh Color Display (M1212), AppleDesign Keyboard (M2980) and MacAlly mouse.

Old Machine interfaces found at The Black Hole, an amazing industrial surplus store.

A view across the keyboard of the Duo 230 to the keyboard of the Powerbook G4.

Optimus-branded Pentium-class PC, 300 MHz, 128 MB RAM, Soundblaster sound card, DOS 6.22, Duke Nukem 3D + Philips monitor, PS/2 keyboard and mouse

Home-made computer Top Trump-style cards from... oooh guess the year... this is pre-ZX Spectrum and the Apple /// should be a clue.

The only one of these I ever used was the PET, though I think my brother-in-law had a Nascom and I have vague recollections of someone having a UK101. I remember I really wanted an Acorn System 1 for some mad reason.