RE: The Speccy - 25 yours on

["Jonathan Hall" <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I=92ll second that I got a BBC Model b for my fifteenth birthday in
83.
Acornsoft=92s Defender, was it called Planetoid, was one of my favs until
Elite came out.  My Dad has still got it, it was great that my Dad got
interested in it cos he had the dosh so he bought a Microvitec colour
monitor for it. We had a  singled sided 40 track floppy when Viglen brought
one out for =A3200 and then got a 40/80 double sided when the prices
crashe=
d.
First printer was a Mannesmann tally 9 pin dot matrix.=20=20

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Jonathan

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From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Steve Morgan
Sent: 26 April 2007 09:23
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] The Speccy - 25 yours on

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Don't take this the wrong way, but what b*ll*cks! ;-)

The very best computer of the 80's home computer revolution was the BBC
Micro. No question.=20

I have two in the loft including a Z80 second processor that connects via
the Tube interface and allows it to run CPM (along with dual floppies, FM
synth and 1MB RAMDISK). One of mine (a Master) was previously owned by the
BBC.

Steve

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f
Of
Wayne
Sent: 25 April 2007 21:02
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx <mailto:ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>=20
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] The Speccy - 25 yours on

<tongue in cheek>

no no no no....
the BEST computer was the Commodore 64! beats the 'speccy' hands down :)
Sound Chips, Video processors all on board and with 64k ram!, none of=20
these wobbly ram packs! or Kingston joystick interfaces - all built in=20
to the C64 :)

I still have mine with the 5 1/4" single sided floppy drive and
synth=20
module etc...
ah those were the days :)

</tongue in cheek :))>

Wayne.

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