I need a new computer :(

Wow, the Spectrum +2 cost £150.

My dad bought me one when I was about 6 or seven. That must have been nigh on a weeks wages then!

Cheers Dad :cool:
 
Who can forget the countless hours sat typing in machine code out of a magazine only for the Spectrum to crash or you finding out that you've gone horribly wrong somewhere.
 
Malevolence said:
Who can forget the countless hours sat typing in machine code out of a magazine only for the Spectrum to crash or you finding out that you've gone horribly wrong somewhere.
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Had that many times with my BBC'B, hours of typing to result in the error message "Bad Program"

Tbh in my case, it should have read "Bad Programer" :o
 
The BBC was the power house in the day, much more grown up, superb BASIC and different league of upgrades. It was better than the Spectrum, Atari and C64
 
Any one remember these?


Acorn Archimedes

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Our school bought about 6 or so for the computer department.
 
Our school was full of these dam machines!

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Got a right rollocking trying to hack in using the teachers logon!!! :p

Cannot beat ****+Runstop on the C64 what a machine! :)

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Is shift a bad word!!!!
 
Housey said:
I had Star Raiders on my Atari 400 in 1980! I remember that Christmas and the costs of it like it was yesterday!

Atari 400 £299
Basic Cartridge £99
Tape £100

In 1980 that was a big save for my mum and dad. Think Star Raiders was £49 I think, on cartridge of course for INSTANT loads :D
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Yup, I remember buying an Atari 800XL just to play Star Raiders!

Was state of the art at the time, :)
 
For me, this started it off. Could drop it down my stairs, find loose screws in it. still worked.



Mates all had c64s.. :/ smh but they all wanted to borrow mine (win)

Than my mums work had a clearout, got 2 of these, chip fingers beware.



*Best Days Of My Life right there..

& 2 of these



Hadn't a clue how to work those.

Evenually, my mate sold this to me £200 quids.



Got the whole computer, desk, chair, games galore, cheat machine, was brill.
 
Those computers are HUGE. I remember retro microcomputer, truly a world' first.

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RM NIMBUS + NAVIGATOR!

Also I remember an old chat website people used to use in the mid-late 90's, every student was using it, ended up chatting my ex-girlfriend up very that very site lol

She was using the computer next to me haha
 
Pawnless Endgame said:
+1

I've still got my Beeb (Model B+), got it 2nd hand in 1986, but the Cub monitor went bang last year. I think it's the tripler that's gone as it shows a blurred image, almost illegible. So yeah, will have to find another Cub or Philips etc replacement. Unless anyone knows how I can hook the Beeb up to a standard VGA / DVI / HDMI monitor port?
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It had component video (RGB) - Red Green Blue, 0V (gnd) and Sync iirc. TTL so +5V iirc. There were almost no cables to be bought in those days off the shelf so had to get handy with a soldering iron. DIN plugs were incredibly fiddly to work with.

Scania said:
I think you underestimate the seriousness of the market the BBC Micro was aimed at! The C64 was a very good games machine with good graphics and very clever sound for its time, but the real nerds, believe me, opted for BBC's if they could afford one.

Yes, it was expensive for sure, but it had capabilities way beyond almost anything of its day and was incredibly expandable, everything from second processors to different languages fitted to ROM expansion boards, the BBC was a superb programmers machine, in whatever language you fancied almost...

I had one (second hand, my parents were far from rich!) after a Spectrum, Electron and C64! - I preferred it to my later Atari 520ST and 1040(!) - I sold the Atari after a few years, but finally sold my beeb in 1990 and sorely wish now I'd kept it!

When you consider the ground breaking "Elite" game, I ended up with the enhanced second processor version which was absolutely stunning - for its day, you start to see how groundbreaking the BBC was, it had a very long life too, the first Model A was launched in December 1981, the last BBC Master Series went out of production in 1987 and was then followed by further -32bit- variants.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Micro Have a read, pay attention to the expand ability and programming languages that were available...
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I agree I had an Electron at first that I think my parents bought, god it was crap. Later I got a part time job and saved every last penny I had for BBC Master 128k. Took me months to pay for it but damn it was an awesome machine.

izzop said:
Any one remember these?


Acorn Archimedes

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Our school bought about 6 or so for the computer department.
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I had the A3000 variant, all-in-one unit so cheaper. Even so couldn't afford a new one so picked up a used one. Also cost me a small fortune. Lovely machine for the day the first 32-bit processor ever and a RISC chip to boot but hardly any decent software for it. A real shame. Still it's descendents live on in in almost every mobile chip ever made.
 
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