Fw: The Speccy - 25 yours on

[Gareth Cook <g@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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I had:

ZX-81 + 16k RAM + "bogroll" printer.

Texas TI-99/4A + Speech Synthesizer.

Acorn Electron + "Plus3" 3.5" disc drive.

BBC Master 128 + Dual 40/80 5.25" floppies + Citizen dot matrix
printer +
Music 500 synthesizer.

Comodore Amiga A500 + 20Mb Hard Disc

Comodore Amiga A2000 + 173Mb Hard Disc (that was the biggest drive out and=
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Then life got boring and I went to PCs... :-(

Phil

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> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx]=20
> On Behalf Of Jonathan Hall
> Sent: 26 April 2007 11:12
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] The Speccy - 25 yours on
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> I?ll second that I got a BBC Model b for my fifteenth birthday in 83.
> Acornsoft?s Defender, was it called Planetoid, was one of my=20
> favs until Elite came out.  My Dad has still got it, it was=20
> great that my Dad got interested in it cos he had the dosh so=20
> he bought a Microvitec colour monitor for it. We had a=20
> singled sided 40 track floppy when Viglen brought one out for=20
> =A3200 and then got a 40/80 double sided when the prices crashed.
> First printer was a Mannesmann tally 9 pin dot matrix.=20
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> Jonathan
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> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx]=20
> 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! ;-)
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> The very best computer of the 80's home computer revolution=20
> was the BBC Micro. No question.=20
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> I have two in the loft including a Z80 second processor that=20
> connects via the Tube interface and allows it to run CPM=20
> (along with dual floppies, FM synth and 1MB RAMDISK). One of=20
> mine (a Master) was previously owned by the BBC.
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> Steve
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> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx=20
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] On Behalf Of Wayne
> Sent: 25 April 2007 21:02
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx <mailto:ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] The Speccy - 25 yours on
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> <tongue in cheek>
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> no no no no....
> the BEST computer was the Commodore 64! beats the 'speccy'=20
> hands down :) Sound Chips, Video processors all on board and=20
> with 64k ram!, none of these wobbly ram packs! or Kingston=20
> joystick interfaces - all built in to the C64 :)
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> I still have mine with the 5 1/4" single sided floppy drive=20
> and synth module etc...
> ah those were the days :)
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> </tongue in cheek :))>
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> Wayne.
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