How long was your first MSX with you?

My first one was a PHC-28s ..i was about 10 years old....probably in 1985.
I sold it for an Atari 520 STF few years after.
My last MSX bought was King's Valley 2, a few month before selling all my MSX stuff.
In 2005, i bought again a PHC-28s, then some MSX2, MSX2+ and turbo-R...

My first computer was a Sony HitBit 75P. It would be around year 1984 I played a lot with it, loving Konami Games and hating the Spectravideo ports.

Reading the MSX magazines I longed for MSX2, later and MSX2+ and finally I desired Turbo-R. After some pleading I convinced my father to buy a Turbo-R and we bought it from LASP. May be it was around 1992.

After some time using the Turbo-R I symbolically sold my HitBit to a friend with old the tapes, they were useless with Turbo-R.

When I started the University I used a pentium and my videogame palying decreased (PC games were awful at that time compared to my MSX2 games, I didn't like how they looked pixelized in the VGA monitor).

Time passed and I used emulation to play with my MSX games and read MRC to follow the news. My Turbo-R was left in my parents' house, I was afraid that my children would break it (now I regret it). This summer I decided to use it again, I've bought a Carnivore 2 to be able to use files from the PC to MSX and I've started to tinker using Fusion-C, thus having the advantages of processing and file managing of a modern computer.

I have my Hotbit since 1986. 36 years now.

I started with a VG8020 with an external single sided diskdrive VY-0010, it was around 1986. And after a couple of years sold it to buy a NMS8280 which has been sold as well to buy a brand new Turbo R. I did manage to get a VG8020 with VY-0010 and NMS8280 back in my collection for nostalgic purposes I have 2 MSX-machines in use now, my Turbo R and an MSXVR.

I bought my Hit Bit in January 86. My VG 8235 in 87 or 88. I still have them. That is the reason why i still love cartridges!