It's my Christmas present.........for the second time in my life
I want it because I gave mine away in the 1980s and I'm sure it ended up in a landfill somewhere.
I want it so I can show my tablet-toting 3-year-old how his Dad started out with computers. I'll even show him the fuse that I blew by doing a reset with a paperclip on it
I've also had to buy my favourite game from back then:
God, it looks crap!!!
But it's made my day
Edit: It cost me £100. There's some earlier models on the 'bay (without the cassette player) in boxes and some examples not in boxes.
Boxed for me was important as was lack of yellowed plastic....
Ah, had a C64. Bought a 512KB RAM-extension later (for GEOS).
It may even still be around somewhere - though the mechanics in the disk-drive wore out long ago.
I had to chuckle looking at the titles of the games
"Space Escort" - that would be a totally different game nowadays
"New York Blitz" - with a picture that strangely resembles one of the Twin Towers being hit by the Boeing - likely the cover-art would not be the same today....
Just be careful with the collecting, once you get the "common" ones - you *will* want the rarer/more-expensive ones too, for completeness, and then it gets expensive (he says from experience )...
and a Jupiter Ace or Camputers Lynx or a Newbury Newbrain - The list of the rarer ones never seems to end (well not exactly true but good examples often sell for beyond my budget :-) ).
After the C64, I went straight to ... an Acorn A5000. Then, two years later I bought a RISC-PC 600. I still have the RISC PC, but haven't booted it up in a decade or so.
Hard-drives heads will probably be glued to their parking position now...
It was all SCSI back then, with 300 DM for a quad-speed CD-drive (a drive, no writer) and 1 GB harddisks.
Hey, that was my first ever computer. Failed in Wales ...
That's the one which used Forth rather than Basic, wasn't it? I always thought Forth was going to be a language of the future. I was wrong Got a book on it somewhere.