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Did
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PC
used to be the given name of human police officers,
till their abolishment when PC's were now known
as personal computational devices?
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Did
You Know? |
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Staying
on games all night is very wierd and tiring, and
is known as Time-Sink ...
Fact!
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First
there was Clive ... or was it Turring?
Halfpennys,
from out of yesteryear
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Back
in the days when we didn't have two of these <<
to rub together, we used to get a piece of one of
these (see far left) and one of >> those for
Christmas, if we were very lucky.
Well okay then, that was what me mam
got.
(The objective of the An Hoola Hoop
was not to hang it on your genitalia BTW!)
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March 1971 - October 2009
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We had Buckaroo
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THen i borrowed a ZX81.
No colour, no sound, membrane keyboard,
1k memory. But he let me borrow it nonetheless.
Built in Basic language. I
use my cassette tape recorder to save little programs
I attempt to write.
Plugs into old black and white portable
(128 bricks worth) telly. Nice!
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THen 6 months later i got my first ZX Spectrum.
16 colours, 48k, membrane rubber keyboard,Built
in Basic language, uses tape recorder
to save onto. Soon have a collection of C90's with
programs akimbo!
Also plugs into old black and white portable
TV. Better!
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My Amiga. oh yes! 1.6million colours, stereo
sound (2 channels left, 2 right), 1mb of memory,
proper keyboard, floppy disc drive. Plugs straight
into the old colour portable. Lush!
(the computers only LOOK like they're getting
smaller! <<)
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Links for all things Retro
http://animerrill.deviantart.com/
"End of An Error"
My old 386, yesterday
(2001 oddly enough!)
Yes
yes, you know I still have the bits in the cellar!
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It
is now illegal to power your computers with mice
on tread mills?
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