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Anyone remember the Sinclair ZX Spectrum?

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Bobtanian

Bobtanian Report 2 Dec 2014 21:11

OH! and two dot matrix printers, n paper......

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me and my darling wife at our wedding in 1960

eRRolSheep

eRRolSheep Report 2 Dec 2014 20:18

lol yes - I was using schoolboy humour

Now, back to my Manic Miner

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Bobtanian

Bobtanian Report 2 Dec 2014 20:15

Manic miner.......LOL

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me and my darling wife at our wedding in 1960

Bobtanian

Bobtanian Report 2 Dec 2014 20:14

That's Repton the "cave" type tunnelling game??? am I right?

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me and my darling wife at our wedding in 1960

eRRolSheep

eRRolSheep Report 2 Dec 2014 20:06

You went to the same school as me?

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Bobtanian

Bobtanian Report 2 Dec 2014 20:04

Remember Repton, Errol?

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me and my darling wife at our wedding in 1960

eRRolSheep

eRRolSheep Report 2 Dec 2014 19:58

I tried to give away my analogue monitor recently but nobody wanted it.

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Bobtanian

Bobtanian Report 2 Dec 2014 19:55

I have a ZX spectrum n loads of games, tapes n things
tape drive

I have two bbc' model B's
1 single floppy drive and a double drive which served as the "table" for the monitor with the Beeb underneath, boxes of discs n software,
wonder if it'll all still work? sadly only 1 monitor but an analogue tv would do for the other....

remember when most shops had zx's on display? I'd written a "rolling ball" program,
which I had several times loaded onto display machines.

the machine would retain this until it was rebooted.......comical seeing the sales people scratching their heads thinking, "Where did THAT come from??"

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me and my darling wife at our wedding in 1960

eRRolSheep

eRRolSheep Report 2 Dec 2014 18:21

You could probably get 70 odd quid for an Acorn Electron these days - it was the poor cousin to the BBC

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+++DetEcTive+++ Report 2 Dec 2014 18:15

We had an Electron - it still in the loft

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eRRolSheep

eRRolSheep Report 2 Dec 2014 17:40

I still have the forerunner of this - the ZX81.

I first learned how to programme on this.

You can also get your computer to emulate early Sinclair machines (and others such as the Commodore).

And of course, Alan Sugar of Apprentice fame, was responsible in some part for bringing PCs to the masses.

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maggiewinchester

maggiewinchester Report 2 Dec 2014 17:37

...I believe I have an original in the attic. Is that the one that took a mealtime to load, and made 'spacey' noises as it loaded?

Certainly wouldn't want anything similar - especially at that price!!!

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Inky1

Inky1 Report 2 Dec 2014 17:24

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/sinclair-zx-spectrum-vega