Nostalgia

I startet 1982 with a Dragon 64 - bougth it in the UK (a huge problem that days) and it had fantastic 32 KILObyte of RAM.

Costs me nearly 2K.
After that one i also had different ATARI (never a COMMODORE) up to the 1040ST.

Z80 and AMSTRAD also (i am sure i had others, too, but over 40 years to remember is hard.)
BUT: i still know all DOS Commands 😂

The different coding languages like DBase3 (and up), Borland Turbo Pascal, Forth and Fortran, GFA Basic and how the all are named - gone in my mind
 
In my case, it all started with the little Timex Sinclair TS-1000 (Sinclair ZX-81 for America), featuring 2KB of RAM plus a 16KB memory module. I recently found a TS-1000 on Facebook Marketplace, it was practically like new. What wonderful times!

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Nearby is the worldest largest Computermuseum at NIXDORF Computer, where i had a part of my education in 1981:NIXDORF MUSEUM
 
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