I just bought a new computer

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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....

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Yes!!!!!

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Looking a the way "colour" is spelt, is it British?

Edit...just saw your last post, thought your were psychic, answering my question before I'd asked it!

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It's a PAL version so they spelled it correctly.

Commodore_VIC-20

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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....

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Large version of the cassette insert:

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Can I ask what you paid for it? They were around 200GBP when they came out.

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wow thank you for sharing this post :-)

What a blast from the past!!! I had a C64, and spent many happy hours playing manic miner

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£100 is what it cost me.

I remember having C64 envy and spending many hours playing Kickstart with my mate

I did consider getting a Spectrum but in all honesty, I never liked them. The silly joystick controller you needed was daft.

I also considered a ZX81 (ZX80s sell for big bucks) but I never had one. Same with a BBC Model B....

But I may start collecting these things

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one of my lecturers back in the poly days used to write books for commodore 64 and vic 20

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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 )...

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Dragon 32?!

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You could have just downloaded one of these

But I guess that's not the point, is it?

I do lust after an original "Defender" arcade machine though.

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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 :-) ).

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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.

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for the younger members, DM is the Deutsche Mark (or Deutchmark) which retired in 1999

not quite as antique as these computers - but close!

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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.

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Indeed, I think I remember playing with an Ace in Rumbelows. Or was it a TI-something..?!

Just bought a C64 too. I'm on a roll today

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Isn't there any Sinclair ZX Spectrum owners out there? I mean, C64 was OK-ish, but Spectrum is superawesome!

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I've got a ZX81, with original manual. I started with a ZX80 (borrowed).

Two best games - 3D Monster Maze and Mazogs.