This has turned out to be a little gem of a thread!
Those pictures are brilliant, those of you with old stuff under the stairs, in the attic/loft etc go and take pics of them and put them up here!!!!!
I remember my mates dad had a ZX81 with which he took off the old keypad and replaced it with one of his own! My mate still has it now somewhere, I will get him to dig it out and will post a pic.
My first computer was a C16 then an Amiga with about 500 discs for it and some amazing games. I wrote a programme in basic on that C16, still have it up at my mums somewhere, would love to find it and see what it is like!!
I got a job in computers back in '85 inputing data and printing it out for a clothes factory in Birkenhead. I remember our 'IT' guy from a company called 'Xetal' in Manchester called Rob, he came over once with a monitor for me, it was a colour Tascan and it was the bees-knees! People used to come over from all over the place to have a look at it!