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[admin]

Found one in the shed!

Sent from my ZX81

[Ciderhead]

Earth calling Tube, come in Tube, I have a pulse Doctor but his eyes have glazed over and he is rambling :

[Ciderhead]

CH shuts up as he hears Tubes marbles roll behind the couch, well and truely lost.

but will it blend?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAl28d6tbko

[delzep]

[fizzypish]

How many people on this forum are qualified/ working in engineering/Science fields? I'm defiantly sensing a quantity of electronics engineers..... 

[JimmyM]

How many people on this forum are qualified/ working in engineering/Science fields? I'm defiantly sensing a quantity of electronics engineers.....

Tubes post above doesn't necessarily demonstrate that he's an engineer, more an antiques dealer!!

[JimmyM]

Add hoarder to his CV... he keeps things from a job he had 35 years ago

[Taf]

Also, you obviously don't send messages from your ZX81 do you? I had a ZX81, and although I was very young at the time, I remember it being fairly shit! You had to type in all the progam for the games, and I think at that stage it was fairly obvious I would never be a programmer.

[DEMPSEY]

How many people on this forum are qualified/ working in engineering/Science fields? I'm defiantly sensing a quantity of electronics engineers.....

You sir are very observant,they are everywhere like Triffids     

[JD]

No, though I do have a ZX81. Was my first "computer" though it was a piece of shit and as soon as I got it I wanted a Spectrum. Good marketing stunt by Sinclair.

Bad an all as the ZX81 was, it was way better than its predecessor, the ZX80. Now there was a piece of shite.

[Bazza]

You want to talk about shite?

My first home comupter (around 1983) was an Oric 1 16K:



Thankfully, we quickly upgraded - to the Oric1 32K

Then the Oric Atmos. We never learned:



Our cousins had a Commodore 64. We were so jealous of them. If they wanted to play a game they just loaded up the tape; we had to type them in from a fecking magazine - and they were ALWAYS crap.


Next was a Tohsiba MSX.



Now that was actually pretty good. Unlike the Oric, it had some games - and a cartridge slot. We had 2 cartridges: a soccer game and a Kung Fu game. Both were excellent, for the time.

Then came the BBC Micro B+:



Ahhhh...the old BBC. Loved that machine. I actually coded on that thing as a hobby. 6502 Assembly Language.  Many 5.25 inch disks at home full of half-started games.

I've hated coding since I stopped using the BBC. I work full time as a software engineer. Now THERE'S a career own goal 


-Barry


P.S. Apologies for the shameless nostalgic interlude there.

[Taf]

I had a BBC as well. It was supposed to be for educational purposes, but had some decent games. Chuckie egg was my favourite, but also played snapper, frogger, hunchback, evil weevil, killer gorilla, planetoid and meteors. I was always a bit jealous of my sprectrum owning buddies, but kid power back then didn't go as far as demanding a particular type of computer, so as I was happy to have anything. Did have a soft spot for manice miner, which I think was a spectrum game.

Didn't the BBC take cassette tapes, that could be easily copied? Don't remember every nuying any games for it.

[Shanna]

Ah come on now Tube that would make me your peer sort of  : first professional programming position in ESB in 1993. Jaysus how can that be.  I only finished college a few years ago. Oh dear 

Shanna

LOL. Smartass! First job was in 1994.

[johnrm]

The games could indeed be copied.
Any of the cassette based games.
It was possible to copy the cartridge games to cassette too, no idea how this was done, but once the original cassette copy was good quality, they could be copied too.

[Will_D]

You young wipper snappers:

My First computer was an ICL 1903T and we punched the cards by hand!