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<<Geek Warning>> C64's Birthday
Disco Matt:
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!
Thrasher:
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!)
My pet favourite (sic) is the Commodore PET 2000, which I learned to program on, when I was 8 :roll: Was coding in BASIC and Assembly by the time I was 9 ....
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!
ben_haynes:
Oh dont you lot feel old i dont have a clue what you are on about far too young :lol: :lol: :lol:
Evilgoat:
--- 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!
--- End quote ---
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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