{"id":126,"date":"2005-07-01T16:55:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-01T16:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwilson.me.uk\/blog\/2005\/07\/reminiscing-about-my-first-computers.htm"},"modified":"2007-07-17T00:06:55","modified_gmt":"2007-07-16T23:06:55","slug":"reminiscing-about-my-first-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/07\/reminiscing-about-my-first-computers.htm","title":{"rendered":"Reminiscing about my first computers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--112023669980933023--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alexcoles.com\/\">Alex<\/a>&#8216;s post about his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alexcoles.com\/2005\/06\/17\/first-home-computer\">first home computer<\/a> got me reminiscing about mine &#8211; a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.old-computers.com\/museum\/computer.asp?st=1&#038;c=480\">Sinclair ZX Spectrum+<\/a>. Then I remembered having an emulator for one a few years ago but couldn&#8217;t find it anywhere until I stumbled across <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldofspectrum.org\/\">World of Spectrum<\/a>, which features Spectrum emulators for a variety of platforms along with a stack of games and other resources. I downloaded SPIN, which seems great, and a few games that I haven&#8217;t seen for years like Manic Miner, Horace Goes Skiing and Jet Set Willy (unfortunately the copyright owners have denied distribution for my old favourite &#8211; JetPac). There are other emulators around on the &#8216;net (e.g. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spectaculator.com\/\">Speculator<\/a>), but SPIN was free and seems pretty good to me.<\/p>\n<p>I know exactly what Alex meant when he talked about playing on his Texas Instruments TI99\/4A emulator &#8220;Whilst grinning like an idiot. And chuckling. Out loud. On my own&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>There are also emulators for the Spectrum which run on Windows CE and Symbian Series 60, so I could soon be having 1980s fun on my mobile devices too!<\/p>\n<p>The Spectrum+ wasn&#8217;t my first computer though. We had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.old-computers.com\/museum\/computer.asp?c=29&amp;st=1\">Acorn\/BBC Bs<\/a>, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.old-computers.com\/museum\/computer.asp?c=103&#038;st=1\">Commadore PET<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.old-computers.com\/museum\/computer.asp?c=263&amp;st=1\">Sinclair ZX81s<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.old-computers.com\/museum\/computer.asp?c=223&#038;st=1\">ZX Spectrums<\/a> at my middle school and then I did most of my GCSE\/A Level stuff (and early hacking) on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.old-computers.com\/museum\/computer.asp?c=223&amp;st=1\">Research Machines Nimbus PCs<\/a> (the only PCs I&#8217;ve ever come across that used the Intel 80186 CPU rather than the 8086 or 80286 of the time).<\/p>\n<p>As for my first laptop &#8211; I still have an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.old-computers.com\/museum\/computer.asp?c=195&amp;st=1\">Amstrad PPC 640<\/a> in the attic!<\/p>\n<p>Oh, those were the days&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex&#8216;s post about his first home computer got me reminiscing about mine &#8211; a Sinclair ZX Spectrum+. 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