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<<Geek Warning>> C64's Birthday
« on: December 12, 2007, 09:58:59 »
I know theres a few of you on here that used to play with the old boxes like the Speccys and C64s, so I thought i'd point out that the C64 was 25 years old yesterday.

So which did you use? Remeber all the Speccy VS C64 arguments, followed by Amiga VS Atari ST?
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« Reply #1 on: December 12, 2007, 10:16:33 »
I had a "Dragon 32"
What a mistake! :lol:

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« Reply #2 on: December 12, 2007, 10:21:50 »
speccy for me.....48k then went to the massive 128k  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:
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« Reply #3 on: December 12, 2007, 10:22:35 »
Shouldn't the poll have a "[Edited] are they, I'm too young to remember" option?
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« Reply #4 on: December 12, 2007, 10:24:31 »
still used my old C64 and C64+4 up untill recently :oops: .....

remember the loading times ......could go and get a take-away eat it and drink a couple of beers whilst waiting :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:
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« Reply #5 on: December 12, 2007, 10:29:45 »
i never had anything like that :lol: muddys had it all though :shock:

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« Reply #6 on: December 12, 2007, 10:45:47 »
I played with BBCs on a few occasions, but we had an Amstrad at home closely followed by a 386 (both being what we'd now recognise as PCs). I have a BBC B here that I was given by a family friend during a loft clear-out along with a pile of 5.1/4in disks (remember them?) and matching disk drive.

Rescued an Acorn Electron from a skip while doing some recycling recently, unfortunately I didn't know enough about them to realise that the other things in there (that I didn't rescue) were the tape drive and the mains adaptor. Interestingly my modern laptop adaptor will power it up and it does work, but it can't save anything...
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« Reply #7 on: December 12, 2007, 10:48:58 »
I still have my Commodore Plus 4 in the loft.  :shock:



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« Reply #8 on: December 12, 2007, 10:57:45 »
Quote from: "landraver"
I had a "Dragon 32"
What a mistake! :lol:

Jeff


We have just spent ages trying to remeber what the other 'common' 8 bit was, remeber it now :)

My 64 is still about, as is my A4000
Also have two brand new VIC20 mainboards kicking about in anti-stat bags and loads of loose stuff. Had one of the 'ugy ducklings' at one point, C65, didnt work and sold it on, didnt know what it was and they are worth a mint, GRRRRR

Cant edit the poll, sorry :(
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« Reply #9 on: December 12, 2007, 11:04:23 »
I had a early version of a  PDA,









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« Reply #10 on: December 12, 2007, 11:12:03 »
I had the C64, I used to love the squeeling noise whilst it loads, sounds like a modem dialling up, if anyone can remember a thing called dial up.  I certainly do :twisted: Im still on it!!
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« Reply #11 on: December 12, 2007, 11:18:28 »
WinVICE : http://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/crossplatform/emulators/VICE/WinVICE-1.22.zip

I can still remeber how to program the thing too!



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« Reply #12 on: December 12, 2007, 13:21:45 »
Mum & Dad got me a TRS80 from Tandy.
It was flippin' useless but I didn't have the heart to tell them  :(


Not my pic, found on 'tinterweb

You could make brilliant random flashing coloured screens with it though  :shock:

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« Reply #13 on: December 12, 2007, 13:41:17 »
Quote from: "zacspeed"
Mum & Dad got me a TRS80 from Tandy.
It was flippin' useless but I didn't have the heart to tell them  :(


Not my pic, found on 'tinterweb

You could make brilliant random flashing coloured screens with it though  :shock:


Import one too, unbalanced aerial inputs, an American thing that Europe stopped doing yonks ago.
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« Reply #14 on: December 12, 2007, 13:49:15 »
I've still got my home-built ZX-80 in the loft and a BBC-B with the Microvitec monitor.

Moved through ZX80, Zx80, Spectrum and then Amiga which was superb for its time.  My last Amiga was an A2000 for which I bought a 20Mb Hard Disk on a full length card which cost nearly £500!
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« Reply #15 on: December 12, 2007, 14:48:21 »
I had a spectrum 128k!    
30 mins for the game to load then it would crash 5 mins into playing it :evil:  :evil:  I hated that thing, but it was THE thing to have!
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« Reply #16 on: December 12, 2007, 14:51:30 »
Quote from: "DarrenG"
My last Amiga was an A2000 for which I bought a 20Mb Hard Disk on a full length card which cost nearly £500!


We had something like that in the Amstrad - I can remember Dad driving to Evesham Micros (as they were then) and returning with an enormous box, then spending the evening fitting it.
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« Reply #17 on: December 12, 2007, 19:34:07 »
In a cupboard I've got two C64 and a boxed ZX81 (with 16K RAM pack)
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« Reply #18 on: December 12, 2007, 20:13:56 »
we had a C64, and my mum it would be nice to bet a book of games that you had to write into the machine, instead of "cheating" by "up-loading" a game via the tape thing

so i spent weeks typing in a game form the book

when i finnaly typed "run"

what do you think happened.......







......thats right....


"syntax error"

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« Reply #19 on: December 12, 2007, 20:20:05 »
i had a c64 too, and remember spending hours waiting for the tape player shaped like a tablet to load anything in.  I used to like the Tony crowther games like loco, son of blagger as well as the US gold stuff.

got a 1541 disk drive in the end , and that was better but still slow!

....then got an amiga a500
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« Reply #20 on: December 12, 2007, 20:45:20 »
HA! Mere amateurs the lot of you ... you haven't lived until you've owned a Sinclair QL  :shock:
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« Reply #21 on: December 12, 2007, 21:01:45 »
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we had a C64, and my mum it would be nice to bet a book of games that you had to write into the machine, instead of "cheating" by "up-loading" a game via the tape thing

so i spent weeks typing in a game form the book

when i finnaly typed "run"

what do you think happened.......







......thats right....


"syntax error"

 :evil:  :evil:  :evil:  :evil:


It could be worse. A friend of mine once jammed the Uni central filestore solid after missing a bit of punctuation from a backup command. The resulting process apparently made backup copies of itself, which in turn made backup copies of themselves, and had grown to a staggering size in the minute or so it took him to sprint to the server room and inform the technicians of what he'd just done!  :lol:
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« Reply #22 on: December 12, 2007, 21:40:13 »
OK, My dad used to build robaots for a living so I had a lot of stuff oveer the years.

ZX81 home build
Dragon 32
BBC B
Amstrad 1512
Amstrad 1640
Amiga 500
Then about 7 years with nothing at home as I worked on the sodding things all day!
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« Reply #23 on: December 12, 2007, 21:42:24 »
..and the QL gave us .... believe it or not LINUX!!!! Odd but true  :shock:
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« Reply #24 on: December 12, 2007, 21:46:46 »
I had one of these it used to over heat before the tapes would load :lol:  :lol:
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« Reply #25 on: December 12, 2007, 22:25:52 »
A lot of this old kit is now becoming valuable - I was lucky to be given a BBC B with an interesting selection of upgrades and spares, I've seen standard ones go for £40+ on ebay.

No mine is not for sale. It took me about ten years to get hold of one of my own!
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« Reply #26 on: December 12, 2007, 22:37:24 »
I have sooooooooooooo much Commodore stuff it's scary  :shock:

..and some Atari stuff, Sinclair ..... and some rather obscure 8 bit stuff (Acorn Atom, and Oric somewhere and some others I'd have to dig out to recall!)

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« Reply #27 on: December 12, 2007, 22:40:11 »
I think that some C64s were built in northants in Corby - when the Factory in Hunters Road shut it then became a distribution centre for Sainsburys.

and what was that japanese standard machine called...MSX remember those - I thought that they would wipe up, but didnt.

and there was the amstrad with a monitor!
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« Reply #28 on: December 12, 2007, 22:52:17 »
Oh dont you lot feel old i dont have a clue what you are on about far too young :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

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« Reply #29 on: December 13, 2007, 09:40:29 »
Quote from: "davidlandy"
I think that some C64s were built in northants in Corby - when the Factory in Hunters Road shut it then became a distribution centre for Sainsburys.

and what was that japanese standard machine called...MSX remember those - I thought that they would wipe up, but didnt.

and there was the amstrad with a monitor!


MSX lived on for a while in Asia, got revised into the MSX2 as well. Ironically Microsoft were into MSX in a big way.

Corby was one of the locations that CBM UK used, Scotland someplace was another. As it all went pear shaped later on there were some serious differences between UK and EU built machines. For example, the german A2000 and UK/US A2000 are totally different machines.
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