While clearing out the eaves in our new bungalow I've found a boxed Acorn Electron with a full 32k RAM and 32k ROM

If I get chance the pics on the box are great for showing how multi use it really was

What a blast from the past

Ahhh the days

I had a BBC micro model B

A shocking £335 in 1981!

Ha!!! I programmed "Carrier Landing" on a ZX80 !!

(Industrial version of ZX81, but released a year earlier)

I have 2x Acorn A7000s in the garage

I've not long sold my Electron and Plus1 and Plus 3 modules.

They were an incredibly uncool computer to have at the time though - bought by beardy sandal wearing parents who thought their child should have an educational computer, when all they really wanted was to play games.

Sad person that I am, I have 2 BBC's and 2 Acorn Archimedes in the loft......

Edited 3 October, 201015 yr by cvennall

Had a few computers over the years, ah the memories.

1) Tandy TRS-80 Color computer with 8K ram.

2) BBC Micro with various additions including external CPU and Teletext module. Also had twin 5 1/4" floppy drives and Solidisk eeprom programmer.

3) Sinclair PC, cant remember much about this. Was 8086 CPU, looked kind of like an Amiga/Atari ST. Additional 20MB HDD was added at some point.

Various PCs including a 286, 486.

Spectrum 128K, +2 and +3.

4) Amiga 500

5) Amiga 500+ with external HDD

6) Amiga 1200 with 100MB internal HDD.

Then back to PC's and where I am today with a Quad core intel desktop and Macbook Pro Apple.

I've not long sold my Electron and Plus1 and Plus 3 modules.

They were an incredibly uncool computer to have at the time though...........

I lived with that shame, can clearly remember feigning happiness unwrapping it at Christmas,

wanting it so much to be a ZX Spectrum, Father Christmas died for me that year

Sad person that I am, I have 2 BBC's and 2 Acorn Archimedes in the loft......

I've thinned out the herd recently and sold a TRS80, Videopac 8000, an Acorn, a Speccy and several duplicate consoles, Oh and a 520ST, 2600 Junior, 7200 and so on.

I've still got a 48k rubber keyed spectrum, both styles of C64 , a C128 and 1541 , an A500, 500+ , 600HD, 1200, Atari 2600 Woody, Dragon 32, NES, SNES, N64, GC, Master System, Megadrive I and II, Saturn, Dreamcast, Game Gear, all of which are boxed good examples, and a mountain of software for all of them (plus some others I'm sure to have forgotten).

Edited 3 October, 201015 yr by Dr Zoidberg

I lived with that shame, can clearly remember feigning happiness unwrapping it at Christmas,

wanting it so much to be a ZX Spectrum, Father Christmas died for me that year

You have my deepest sympathies.

I had a Dragon 32 before my C64 and while it wasn't mainstream it did have some surprisingly good games, unlike the Beebs which had Elite, Chuckie Egg, Boulderdash , Frak! and, erm...... bugger all, really

I also had a spectrum 128k +2a. It was black like the +3 but had a tape deck.

You have my deepest sympathies.

I had a Dragon 32 before my C64 and while it wasn't mainstream it did have some surprisingly good games, unlike the Beebs which had Elite, Chuckie Egg, Boulderdash , Frak! and, erm...... bugger all, really

Ahhh, the memories. Dragon 32 was a console I was trying to remember earlier, the two games I remember for the Acorn were 'Repton', which

I seem to remember being quite good, and 'Geoff Capes Strongman', which involved hammering the key pad to near destruction.

I ahd a Sharp MZ-80k with a green film over the screen so it wasn't black and white...

I have a boxed Amiga 'Batman edition' in the garage.

The games will be knocking about somewhere. The plastics typical 90's stuff thats gone from grey to yellow.

A friend of mine was a real Tech. hero, he has in his loft a ZX 80, ZX81, BBC computer. Acorn Electron. Sinclair spectrons of differnt spec. Atari whatever?, Nintendo 64. Dragon 32 and a couple of others I can't remember. He is convinced they are worth a few pounds now, but are they?

All I had was a Dragon 32, I can rember typing in 100's of lines of "Basic" and sometimes loading cassette recorded games, then, because of a simple typo spendo many hours fixing the programme. My highlight was writing & programming my own maths. exercises for the kids which has given them a head start in the world of maths. and science, myyoungest daughter is at Norwich doing her Maths. degree and I'm proud of her.

I lived with that shame, can clearly remember feigning happiness unwrapping it at Christmas,

wanting it so much to be a ZX Spectrum, Father Christmas died for me that year

I too feel your shame.

Had exactly the same circumstances. Begged and whined for months to get a computer desperately wanting a Speccy 48k

and getting the Acorn because that what the local electric shop sold.

Then having the equal shame of going into the shops and looking for a BBC section only to find none or a pitifully small selection of strange educational games.

Well, in the loft I have:

1. Acorn Atom (built with my own fair hands 30 years ago!) 10K RAM

2. Vic 20

3. Amiga 520ST (with add on external 20 Mb disk and 3 Mb RAM!)

Anyone else got an Atom? It was unique (Until Acorn got the BBC contract) in that it had a 6502 Assembler built in.

Phil

I got one of these mothers, courtesy of my uncle:

Trouble was, the clock speed was too fast for Elite or something (whatever it was, it ran too fast to play... :( )

Next up was an Amiga 500 with extra RAM - oh, the days playing Alien Breed and Sensible Soccer!

I got one of these mothers, courtesy of my uncle:

Trouble was, the clock speed was too fast for Elite or something (whatever it was, it ran too fast to play... :( )

Next up was an Amiga 500 with extra RAM - oh, the days playing Alien Breed and Sensible Soccer!

What on earth model of BBC Micro is that?

Edited 4 October, 201015 yr by cheezemonkhai

Next up was an Amiga 500 with extra RAM - oh, the days playing Alien Breed and Sensible Soccer!

Speedball 2 was the game for me!

And the original populous, Megalomania, lemmings, stunt car racer. Glory days!

Edited 4 October, 201015 yr by Aspman

What on earth model of BBC Micro is that?

It was a B that Viglen got let loose on for more powerful applications (the uncle that gave it to me was a university professor...)

How about a Nascom Kit PC anyone - just recently binned it.

Also have a CPM based pc with green screen and 10mb hard disc - circa 1983 used for accounts and DBII - remember?

Well, in the loft I have:

1. Acorn Atom (built with my own fair hands 30 years ago!) 10K RAM

2. Vic 20

3. Amiga 520ST (with add on external 20 Mb disk and 3 Mb RAM!)

Anyone else got an Atom? It was unique (Until Acorn got the BBC contract) in that it had a 6502 Assembler built in.

Phil

The 520ST was an Atari, you are thing of the A500+ with the A520 "SideKick"(??) 20MB HardDrive/3MB RAM Expansion Pack.

Did you perform the mobo surgery and convert your Amiga to 1MB Video RAM?? I managed to get my SideKick dirt cheap; two of them turned up at a Kay's Discount store amongst a pallet of Commodore BubbleJet Printers; the staff didnt know the difference, so I got mine for £124, instead of the £399 list price!!!!!

Later upgraded the 20Mb to a 200MB :yes:

Beginning to wish I hadn't jettisoned my Amgia 1200 now, got me through uni, expecially after the upgrades that cost more than the original computer did... 270MB hard drive, 4MB RAM upgrade and a 68030 and MMU...