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[bassexpander]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/12/08/commodore.feedback.irpt/index.html

[bellum99]

Yup...I remember the days. Life was great back then..late nights up on the BBS scamming for software and playing the games like Trade Wars.

[Confused Canadian]

I peaked too early...my parents got me a Vic 20 (nothing like waiting 20 minutes for a crappy game to load by tape...), and no way were they going to buy me a 'new' computer when the 64 came out.

My neighbor had one though...and of course I was never jealous...

Memories...some good laughs on the CNN page.

[mrsquirrel]

Spectrum 48K ruled

Spectrum ZX80 and 81 were cooller

Dragon (can't remember what it was called ) was crap but my old man just sold it on Ebay for a few hundred quid.

[Treefarmer]

the english guys making games like jeff minter and andrew braybrook were fucking geniuses

[excitinghead]

I still have my BBC Model B 32k. It's been fixed 4 times, but still works fine, and even though some of the games take 30 mins to load, they're still very playable...amazing for a computer my parents bought in 1983!

If there weren't BBC emulators available online now, setting up a virtual-BBC on your desktop, I would still have loaded it up occasionally once I was back home.

[mrsquirrel]

My old neighbour was the lad who made - Something Nights on the Spectrum

He then went onto make Driver et al.

Minted he was.

He only used the house where we lived for his parents and his supercars

[JustJohn]

It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.

[hanguker]

mmm...the TRS-80 Radio Shack special!!! That was my baby back in the day.

screeeeeeeeeeeeee....ki.ki.ki.....screeeee....bi.bi.bi.. LETS LOAD UP THE GAMES! Loadrunner or bust!!!


Man I'm old

[butlerian]

I loved my Spectrum 48k. Mike Singleton (fantastic games like Lords of Midnight, Doomdark's Revenge, Dark Sceptre, Throne of Fire) and Julian Gollup (Chaos, Lords of Chaos) were fantastic. They then moved on to the Amiga and the PC - Gollup had much success with the XCOM series.

[Dome Vans]

I spent most of yesterday thinking about Double Dragon



Look at the graphics on that!

[Zutronius]

I love my Epson Apex 80 with 4.6 mhz processer and monochrome orangescreen/

[FXAdam]

[FistFace]

I had a Timex/Sinclair 1000 with the 16k ram expansion pack. If you bumped the expansion pack, it would screw it all up, so my dad duct-taped the expansion pack to the T/S 1000.

My father and I got the idea to buy one from a British exchange teacher our school had. His name was Stuart Churchill. He was such a great science teacher, that my family invited him over for dinner. I wonder where he is today.


Good times!


I used to dream of owning the thermal printer for that model, and one day six years ago, I saw one for sale on E-bay. I bought it for $5 plus shipping, just to say I got it.







I almost bought one of these babies, too! The TS-2068. I still remember drooling over the catologue for that thing when I was young.

[dogshed]

I had a Sinclair before they made a deal with Timex.
It was called the ZX-81 and I think it only had a half K
of memory instead of 1024.

You could
save some money by getting it as a kit, but my father went
ahead and paid the extra to get it already built.

A kid at school had a ZX-80 which was white.

I wrote a program that would do a countdown when someone
hit a key. You have to remember this was a time when most
people only saw computers in TV shows. "Go ahead. Type
something."

The computer would then say that it was going to self destruct
and at zero it would load from tape which made the screen go
freaky. I got a lot of people with that one.

My second computer was a VIC-20.