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« on: August 12, 2006, 10:05:54 »
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« Reply #1 on: August 12, 2006, 10:15:46 »
i used to have the sinclair spectrum 128 k with built in tape player ,having to rewind the tape everytime you wanted to load a game was a nause  :D
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« Reply #2 on: August 12, 2006, 10:21:24 »
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i used to have the sinclair spectrum 128 k with built in tape player ,having to rewind the tape everytime you wanted to load a game was a nause  :D



i just got my old spectum 48k out the other week the one with the rubber keys
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« Reply #3 on: August 12, 2006, 10:27:47 »
cool a blast from the past :D
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« Reply #4 on: August 12, 2006, 10:28:53 »
How old did you say you were Matt  :?:  :wink: ,




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« Reply #5 on: August 12, 2006, 10:48:54 »
im 40 in november :D  :D  i know i only look 21 :D
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« Reply #6 on: August 12, 2006, 11:42:08 »
Remember typing the code in for a game from one of the magazines? And then spending hours trying to find the mistake.........
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« Reply #7 on: August 12, 2006, 11:58:08 »
Hmm...you'd have thought they could have found a picture of the correct PC  :?

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PC

The first PC I worked on, in 1980,  was a Tandy Model II - which used huge 8" floppy discs, BASIC, and CP/M as the O/S. There were loads of different PC's around before IBM & Microsoft dominated the market in the early '80s. In 1977 there were the Tandy TRS-80 Model I, the Commodore PET and the Apple II.
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« Reply #8 on: August 12, 2006, 11:58:17 »
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Remember typing the code in for a game from one of the magazines? And then spending hours trying to find the mistake.........


 :lol:  :lol:  yep and I remember writing pointless little programs in 'basic' that made some dot move about the screen and finding it fascinating (oh the joys of childhood).

Still got a Commodore 64 plus tape and disk drive and thousands of games up in an attic somewhere  :)
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« Reply #9 on: August 12, 2006, 12:39:57 »
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You would have thought you would have updated it by now then!
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« Reply #10 on: August 12, 2006, 13:49:41 »
I still have a ZX81 in the loft, 1k of memory with no expansion pack MEGA FAST NOT  :lol:  :lol:
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« Reply #11 on: August 12, 2006, 16:20:10 »
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im 40 in november :D  :D  i know i only look 21 :D

hahaha beat ya.. 40 in just under 2 weeks ;)
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« Reply #12 on: August 12, 2006, 16:21:30 »
my school used to have TRS80's and when i left school i workd on DEC PDP 11-44's.. with the disk spools and about the size of a 110.. all for about 5 meg of memory!!!
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