Was going through some old cabinets at work and found this...been so long since I've seen one. Used to have one to switch between the printer and a zip drive.
http://i.imgur.com/pL4XDZe.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/SZ93A0R.jpg
P.S. insert image sucks
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Was going through some old cabinets at work and found this...been so long since I've seen one. Used to have one to switch between the printer and a zip drive.
http://i.imgur.com/pL4XDZe.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/SZ93A0R.jpg
P.S. insert image sucks
Zip drive - Wikipedia
I used that guy for backups back in its hay-day.
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First computer and one of my favorite games to play on it: Sopwith | David L. Clark
It's a different type of technology, but I still use my Targus laptop bag that I bought in 1994 at the Hong Kong airport. They don't make them like that anymore: Capacity is 3 laptops. Hand sewn, hard cartoon & plastic innards for rigidity, plastic bars for strength, padded, comfortable double handle grip, plenty of storage areas for everything else. It's almost 2 Kg empty. Been with me through all: -20c Canada's winter, 50c scorching Australian outback, fell on salted water once. 25 years old and every zipper still functions normally and all leather still well preserved, albeit needs some cleaning oil. It's my army laptop bag.
I'll get some pictures tomorrow.
solid man... :-> Anybody ever use a BBC micro? Was like the less fun version of Spectrum, i bloody loved it though, Chuckie Egg master! One of my friends is a well known games coder from back in the day - He goes on one at times regarding ease of coding for it - 'everything was integers on the BBC'
I bet my grade school doesn't have the ancient computer labs running FrEDwriter anymore. No one misses Windows 3.11 either, right?
I miss playing skifree on 3.11, looks like you can download it free now though.
One of the first computer programs I can remember using was SAM for the commodore 64. Hearing it again brings back some old memories.
Yes, I still use my BBC Micro (as well as my Sinclair ZX Spectrums and ZX81s), mainly for programming :wink: - although work is getting in the way at the moment :(Quote:
Originally Posted by rogster001
This brilliant emulator may interest you and your friend:
BeebEm - BBC Micro and Master 128 Emulator
as may this:
BBC Games from the past - MicroPower Games
Chuckie Egg is on there...
I used to have the "Dragon" probably one of the oldest computers I owned back then. I've been through a fair few, here's my list:
Binatone
Dragon
Spectrum Z86
C64
Amiga 500
Amiga 500+
Amga 600
Amiga 1200
Atari STE
PC Windows - all OS apart from Windows NT
iMac
My god - I could of made a fortune keeping some of those nowadays, wonder if any of them are actually worth anything?
Ah, the Dragon 32 and 64. A few friends at school had Dragon's but they weren't as popular as Spectrums, BBCs or C64s. Dragon's are going on ebay for up to £199...or you can use this XRoar emulator (not tried it myself but I think I'll download it and give it a shot):Quote:
Originally Posted by swgh
XRoar - Dragon & CoCo emulator
This archive of Dragon resources looks useful too:
The Dragon Archive
The Sinclair ZX80 and Cantab Jupiter Ace go for extraordinary sums on ebay - its not uncommon for them to go up to £1,100
ZX80 - Wikipedia
Jupiter Ace - Wikipedia
The Jupiter Ace was an interesting micro because it used Forth rather than BASIC.
Here is my list of 8-bit micros that I own:
ZX Spectrum (x2)
ZX81 (x2)
BBC Micro
Oric-1
I'd like to get my hands on a Grundy Newbrain but they are very few and far between and very expensive when they do come up on ebay
Grundy NewBrain - Wikipedia
A good emulator found here though:
http://www.newbrainemu.eu/