DDK - Die Deutschen Klassiker

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Things really have moved on: doesn't seem long ago that I was playing on a ZX81. Mind you, it did have the plug in 16K memory, so it was really, really powerful .

Funnily enough, my brother is a programmer for Lionhead (games brand) and yet I never, ever see modern games .

Barry - I still have my (Dads) ZX81 in the loft -also with 16K RAM -It must've crashed more times than Barry Sheene whilst loading from the tape player.
Amazing to think it was 26yrs ago they were released.

I remember we had a ZX Spectrum, then moved onto a Dragon 32. I even had an Apricot. They used optic fibres to connect keyboard and mouse to the terminal, how space aged.

Does anyone remember the Dragon 32?


Or Apricot ACT?

A friend had a Dragon - a Tandy clone, with a cartridge slot, so he could be playing asteroids in seconds (show-off) - and a colour printer that used short little biros as refills.

I started a paper round to pay for a ZX81, and it took me so long that by the time I had the money, I could buy a Spectrum 16 - which I upgraded to a 48k using bare chips, bought mail order. Still got that same Speccy in the loft. Well actually, it was my third Specyy, as the first one blew itself up while loading a game, and the first replacement came apart in my hands as I took it out of the box.

Racecraft76 wrote:I remember we had a ZX Spectrum, then moved onto a Dragon 32. I even had an Apricot. They used optic fibres to connect keyboard and mouse to the terminal, how space aged.

They were modern compared to the machines I learned on! The first micro I used - and had to build in order to use it



The second machine I used - and again, had to assemble:



The third computer:



The machine before Apricot - the ACT Sirius



Eeeh, them were days

Philip

Barry wrote:Things really have moved on: doesn't seem long ago that I was playing on a ZX81. Mind you, it did have the plug in 16K memory, so it was really, really powerful .

Funnily enough, my brother is a programmer for Lionhead (games brand) and yet I never, ever see modern games .

I have still got mine here in it's BOX!!!

a wapping 16K of memory..

They were modern compared to the machines I learned on! The first micro I used - and had to build in order to use it

Yes I remeber those.. My Dad worked for Lucas Electronic's and he had to pay one of the guys some beer money to make it up for me..

I remember you could also buy the ZX81 in kit form to.. we did the same there. Then my Dad and the team he was running put in a bid to make the Spectrum here in the UK for £4.70 a unit!! and they lost out to the Japs by a few pence!! My Dad's just seen this he is in my office now and thinks it's funny how much it come on...

who remembers the Vic20?

fourteener wrote:who remembers the Vic20?

Absolutely!

But it was never going to be the true equal of it's predecessor:



Nor of the machine they were trying to compete with:



P

My second computer was a Kray (Cray?): came out of one of the Universities down here, probably Sussex. At the time (late eighties) I knew quite a few aspiring scientists (now all doctors or professsors), and one of them presented this one to me.

Shame I didn't have a picture of it.

I too was a young computer nerd!

At one point I had a computer room (later to become my fish room and then my drum room!) with the following exotic pieces of machinery in it.

My first



A bizarre choice for my second - The Sharp MZ80K



Soon followed with an MZ80A which I still have including some great pieces of software that I wrote for it



I then also had various other platforms for gaming, school etc.





and of course a Spectrum but with a funky Kingston keyboard or something similar.



I wanted to becomre a systems analyst whilst at school and wrtoe a number of applications including history games, tuckshop databases and the likes and my school paid me to do so.

Thankfully I discovered sex, drugs, rock&roll and hedonism in general and ended up where I am today ( ) before falling too deeply into nerdism!

Bootsy wrote:Thankfully I discovered sex, drugs, rock&roll and hedonism in general and ended up where I am today ( ) before falling too deeply into nerdism!

Bollocks

So THAT's where I went wrong - I didn NOT discover the above So I therefore ended up a nerd with a twenty five year career in computing

P

Bootsy wrote: A bizarre choice for my second - The Sharp MZ80K

Not bizzare at all - they were very clever machines with a (from memory) completly dot addressable screen and a high speed tape system that worked - one of my favourites for the time

P

pmjt wrote:So THAT's where I went wrong - I didn NOT discover the above So I therefore ended up a nerd with a twenty five year career in computing

I think you've done rather well actually!