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PCs & Mobiles Forum - RE: Nostalga - Trying to remember old 8 bit computers - Page 2
posted by Jimbo :oÞ on Monday, 1st March 2010, 14:00
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ZX81 with 16K RAM (and a memotech 16K RAM pack that's knacked)
ZX Spectrum 128K
ZX Spectrum128K+ (I think)
Atari 2600 Junior (x1)
Atari 2600 "Vader" (x1)
Atari 2600 "Woody" (x5 poss 6)
Atari 7800 (x2 one boxed almost mint)
Amiga 500 (x2)
Intellivision Console (x1)
That's my crop of my school days computers and consoles I've managed to rebuy. All the above I have here and ALL working 100%.
Spectrum is a plastic cased one, after the rubber membrane version and has slight dimpling where someone has used the wrong screws to titghten it up.
Almost everything else is in great condition. Got so many Atari games it'd take me a week to list them all!
Just gone trying to remember the ZAP command cos I had one of those too and I think it might be....
Texas TI TRS80!
Forgot about that one... thats gonna cost me on fleabay! 
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posted by Rob Shepherd on Monday, 1st March 2010, 14:14
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Hmm maybe the other one I was thinking of was a Texas Instruments something or other, though they seem to have done lots, none of which look like the sort of computer I had in mind.
It was definitely similar in size to a Spectrum or Oric 1...
Cheers for the suggestions though, reminded me of much I have in my loft. 
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posted by MADTheOgster on Monday, 1st March 2010, 15:17
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it wasnt a spectrum "kit" was it ? iirc, quite a few companies did a kit to give a speccy a "proper" keyboard, & some of these made it as far as the big electrical retailers (pre-built)
a mate of mine had one... it was crap tho 
& i was definately in the "vic20 FTW) camp
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posted by bytemaster on Monday, 1st March 2010, 15:33
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It was definitely similar in size to a Spectrum or Oric 1...
Jupiter Ace?
posted by Rob Shepherd on Monday, 1st March 2010, 16:28
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It might have been that actually! It definitely wasn't a repackaged spectrum. I can't tell now if my memory is playing tricks on me or not.
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posted by Mark Oates on Tuesday, 2nd March 2010, 18:49
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It took me until 1997 to lose my online virginity (I had to get my own online connection because Central Lancashire University was really weird about what content you could browse on their systems, and I was doing a dissertation on the www interpreted as a lawless physical destination. Went over the heads of everybody there, so I wound up with a PGDip instead.)
ISTR forking out nearly £400 for a 128Mb SCSI hard drive for my Atari 1040 (upgraded by a kit from the 520). I also had an ABS keyboard case for my Speccy which worked much better than the membrane one.
The weirdest bit of kit I had was the Sinclair QL with its designer keyboard, "microdrive" miniature tape streamer storage, and hooked up to a Silver Reed electric typewriter as a printer. Printing out one A4 page at a time, with a noise like a Thompson submachine gun going off.
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posted by Rassilon on Wednesday, 3rd March 2010, 00:52
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Don't suppose you were on Micronet back then were you?
At that time I was working for Modem House in Exeter, fixing Voyager 7 & 11's, Prism 1000's AKA Telemod 2, Prism 2000 (Made by Thorn) & the VTX 5000 for the Spectrum for use on Micronet.
We used to go to attend trade shows for the 8 bit micros of the day & played the Micronet "Another boring day in front of my computer............you need MMMMMMMMMicronet" played continually for 3 days (10am - 6pm) & for 6 days at the Earls Court (Hammersmith) during the PCW show (with Space Harrier being played on about 8 machines underneath our stand with people dying every 20 seconds).
Vague memories of (drunkenly) hanging out of a taxi window once, as we went around Hyde Park Corner, chatting up some oriental ladies in a convertable, alas the taxi went one way & the girls went another.
(BBC Model B's & Masters still in unopened boxes had been seen to turn up for disposal in 2007\2008 at Somerset County Council).
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This item was edited on Wednesday, 3rd March 2010, 00:58
