V-Flyer

For those of us old enough to have started our computer lives on the school adding up machines (laughingly called "computer class") and then on to the heady heights of the Sinclair Spectrum,
Look at this fantastic piece of hi tech kit!
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/2006/07/oldharddrive.html

Young of today, they don't know they are born! [:o)][:o)]

It's a snip! And for a whole 15 meg!

God, I loved my speccy. Many happy hours (mostly spent waiting for games to load from cassette - remember that spangly blue and yellow screen whilst they decided whether to crash at the 11th hour or not?).

Wonder if you can still get your hands on one. Or a BBC? Oh yes. We could play Elite...

I've still got my Spectrum in the loft, with its cool rubber buttons and jazzy decals.
Remember writing your own code for them? never worked the first time!

I remember the bbc computers at school and inserting that huge floppy disc into the drive and the way it made that noise as if it was reading all the info!

Can you still get a bbc computer?

I also remember my best friend who had an Amstrad computer and my other friend who had a commodore.We were too poor to have a computer but later on in years my dad thought it would be a great idea to buy that console which you plug into your tv and it plays that ping pong thingy game![ii]

Originally posted by AlanA
I've still got my Spectrum in the loft, with its cool rubber buttons and jazzy decals.
Remember writing your own code for them? never worked the first time!

Snap....well my mum and dads loft ... with a Microdrive!

10 PRINT "**** off"
20 GO TO 10

What fun we had

You may have already seen this, but if not, you're going to LOVE it...

http://www2.b3ta.com/heyhey16k/

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Originally posted by mdvipond
It's a snip! And for a whole 15 meg!

God, I loved my speccy. Many happy hours (mostly spent waiting for games to load from cassette - remember that spangly blue and yellow screen whilst they decided whether to crash at the 11th hour or not?).

Wonder if you can still get your hands on one. Or a BBC? Oh yes. We could play Elite...

Our first was a Commodore 64 - god, we had a Lord of the Rings Game. Load, go off to make a 7 course feast, come back 3 hours later and it had crashed...... as with mvdi's experience. No hard drive, we only had a cassette. £200 for the Commodore, as I remember..... and we didn't have a printer either - who needed one of those?![:p]

Originally posted by McCoy

You may have already seen this, but if not, you're going to LOVE it...

http://www2.b3ta.com/heyhey16k/

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Brilliant - remember seeing a link to it on here a while back.

The one thing that strikes me when you look at the games footage playing in the background of that clip is: were the graphics really that crap? Well, yes, of course they were, but they were the dog's dangly bits back in their day. My, how we forget. And my, where do all the years go? Oh god getting maudlin, hide the gin!

Originally posted by mdvipond
It's a snip! And for a whole 15 meg!

We could play Elite...

I used to spend hours playing that game on my Amstrad.

I don't know if you know about this..but you can still play the game here

BTW did anyone know that the commodore 64 is about to be re-released..I will try and hunt down a link for the info on it.

The early 80s computers - that's [url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekpub.cgi?regexp=^Peter+Shaw$&loadpics=on]my history[/url] you're talking about there

remember your first proper programmes?
For me it was Lotus 123, manual colum widths, strange colouring, Windows 3.1 a GUI! I went then down the Lotus smart suite route (40 odd floppy disks) before the darkness of MS got hold of me..

I think the first proper program I had for a computer was for my TRS-80, it was of course a game, no idea of the name of it now..but it was made by this small software publishing company called Microsoft

Found the link for the 64 link