Your Earliest Memory of the CPC?

[Bryce]

@erwin: Sounds like you had a great childhood

@CP/M User: Yes it was the wood grain VCS.....Bastard.

Bryce.

[ervin]

@erwin: Sounds like you had a great childhood

Indeed I did Bryce... indeed I did...

It's probably the reason why I visit this wonderful website and forum so often - I just don't want to let go of those happy memories.

[AMSDOS]

@CP/M User: Yes it was the wood grain VCS.....Bastard.

Bryce.

Wha??    What did I do? I couldn't care too hoots about the Wood grain VCS model, after a while it smells all funny little a book which smells like poopies.    At least my revised model smells as fresh as the day I got it! 

[Bryce]

The "Bastard" wasn't meant for you, it was just me still being annoyed about my rich friend (who really didn't have a clue or interest in the device)

I still think the wood version was the nicest looking version of them all.

Bryce.

[Zetr0]

I have to admit the original Atari 2600 (VCS) "woody" still looks delicious!

Personally I prefer the original 6 switch release



Spent a lot of time beating my younger brother on that machine, and it was a lot of fun to play, especially battle tanks with the ricochet bullets!!!

I did notice this nice replica some one has made

[Bryce]

Drool, RetroPr0n... Do you have a picture with the top taken off?

Bryce.

[Gryzor]

Got a heavy-sixer myself, I can take some for you if you're interested...

[AMSDOS]

The "Bastard" wasn't meant for you, it was just me still being annoyed about my rich friend (who really didn't have a clue or interest in the device)

"The B******", surely investing in technologies like those has made them poor! 

[DPG]

Earliest memory of the CPC is playing the nursery rhyme game my parents got for it, always loved that game.

[Gryzor]

Hey, anyone remembers a strange case that appeared on the Zone a few years back, when a guy came up and said his parents bought him a CPC as his computer - right then? I wonder how that went...

[Bryce]

What's a hist computer?

Bryce.

[Gryzor]

 Pedantic guy... "his".

[Bryce]

Hmm, wasn't being pedantic, just didn't understand your post. But with "his" I still don't understand your post?? Am i missing something... I'll read it again.... Nope, still don't understand it 

Bryce.

[Gryzor]

Ok.
Guy comes on the Zone about five years ago. Starts asking questions about the CPC. Says his parents had just given him one. As his first computer.

[Bryce]

I don't see the problem, my sons first computer will be something 8-bit too. If you start with a PC, then you'll never learn how a computer really works or how to program. If we had started on a PC, how many of us would be able to program or develop hardware today? We'd just be Facebook/twitter zombies like todays kids (God I sound like my father). I read lately that this is one of the reasons why the current generation of IT students are so much worse than a few generations back.

Bryce.

[TFM]

Of course!

[Gryzor]

Oh, don't get me wrong, as I've said before my daughter (crossing fingers) will get something like a Pong first, then a 2600, then a CPC and then a PC.
But we're talking about toddlers here, not grown-up teenagers

[khisanth]

earliest memory was reading about it in the papers and my dad getting the first issues of Amstrad User for me to lust over. Read so much about it in the run up to Christmas when i got it

[Gryzor]

Bestest Xmas ever?

[AMSDOS]

Ok.
Guy comes on the Zone about five years ago. Starts asking questions about the CPC. Says his parents had just given him one. As his first computer.

Probably because they were an only child - so everything their parents got them was soldly for them!    The Parents probably also had money - the mansion, porche/ferrari, tennis court, swimming pool, power boat, etc, etc, etc to splash around, at least that's the picture I'm getting, kid wants a CPC - kid gets their CPC!   

It bugs me I work my butt off for so little only to see some Jerk in a Merk come to make sure I'm not ripping anybody off!    Even my body is starting to tell me sob stories.

[protek]

Reviving this topic. 

My first memory of the CPC is from 1985. I had bought my first ever computer magazine called MikroBitti. It had an ad of the CPC464 and 664. However it took me almost 27 years to actually get a look and feel on real live CPC and that was the CPC6128 that I bought earlier this year. The CPC was pretty marginal compared to the C64 here back in the 80's. Nevertheless, you can still find CPCs locally.

[Dave300]

Reviving also...My earliest memory was with the 6128+ My parents got it off another family back in 1992 (I think then) and they gave me 2 disc capcom collection and a few other discs (Bart Simpson vs Space Mutants, Terminator 2, Starglider 2, Gremlins 2 the new Batch, Mini Office II and a few others) and loved playing the games, Burnin' Rubber (trying hard to complete it but not getting past lap 3) and programming the BASIC to play sounds.


Then I was given another Amstrad from the office where my dad worked and I can't remember which model it was but it had a big beige CRT and two floppy drives and came with a daisy wheel printer. Had fun with that trying to boot it (or use it) with two floppy drives but after a while, it packed in. Finally my last one was one with the CRT green screen and the floppy drive up the side of it. Belonged to a friend of my grans (Came with database and word processing software on a floppy. I was only 7 at the time and used to amuse myself by writing short stories on it, using the spell checker and it misspelling words often and then printing them on the daisy wheel printer and reading what the spell checker did. I still had the 6128+ for quite a number of years after but gave it away, sometimes wish I still had it. Good times.

[MacDeath]

Then I was given another Amstrad from the office where my dad worked and I can't remember which model it was but it had a big beige CRT and two floppy drives and came with a daisy wheel printer.

must be a PCW I guess...

[EgoTrip]

It was probably around 1984-5 and I remember being allowed to play Timeman One, and Oh Mummy. We had a CPC464 green screen and the keyboard had big deep keys, but I think my mum's husband at the time sold it and we ended up with a normal key 464. He spent all his time playing games on it and had a crap load of pirates, I remember him getting C-90's off his mates then going through all the games on them.

[Gryzor]

and I remember being allowed to play Timeman One

What were you being punished for?