Re: The Speccy - 25 yours on

[Stephen McGarry <Selfbuild@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Keith Doxey wrote:
>> The very best computer of the 80's home computer revolution was
the BBC
>> Micro. No question.
>>
>> I have two in the loft including a Z80 second processor that
connects via
>> the Tube interface and allows it to run CPM (along with dual
floppies, FM
>> synth and 1MB RAMDISK). One of mine (a Master) was previously
owned by the
>> BBC.
>>
>
> AGREED  :D :D
>
> I still have four BBC's I think. Two in the loft and two in the
garage.
>
> It was impossible to watch Tomorrows World without seeing at least 3
BBC
> Model B computers in every show.
>
> The only downside was that it took almost a second to boot up and get
the
> word processor running LOL
>
> Keith
>

Those were the days! When Cheating on Games involved disassembling the
entire
game and working out how to bugger with the code !
Still got hundreds of pages of listing for the Elite game ... Yes you could
have a million credits!
or hundreds of lives in Defender...

I could go on forever with the things you had to do in GOOD OLD DAYS...

Stephen


P.S. I programmed both BBCs and C64s for a living and the BBC was better!