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I'm watching 'Halt and Catch Fire' on C4 at the moment, and was delighted to see a box for a Star dot matrix printer in the background. Touched a memory address for me. Any other 80s tech special memories - triggered by retro telly or not?
I found my first ever CD player in my Mum's loft a while back, they seemed so amazing at the time.
No idea when I began here, was a very long time ago. Previously known as Spirit_of_81. Love cheese, hate the colour of it, this is why it requires some blue in it.
So 80s songs - how 'bout 80s tech? on 20:38 - Apr 17 by thebooks
I was remembering my ZX Spectrum recently. Lovely stuff.
I was a 'Horace And The Spiders' boy, myself, and we could only afford 16K at the time. I can hear the thing loading now!
There was a TV series about Sinclair a few years ago wasn't there, or am I imagining it? I believe there was a character with Tourette's in it who came out with "Banjo f**ker!" in the pub and no-one batted an eyelid. This US one I'm watching is good, but it lacks certain British idiosyncrasies.
I had one of these only in silver. Cheaper than a Sony Walkman but did exactly the same job. It revolutionised listening to music because you could listen to your own stuff on the move in privacy.
I also had a Commodore VIc20 that still worked after my mate dropped a cup of coffee into it.
Lastly, one of the early dvd players. It was a Sony that cost £200 in about 1984. Great bit of kit even if the band powering the dvd drawer did break in three months.
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So 80s songs - how 'bout 80s tech? on 07:50 - Apr 18 with 2577 views
So 80s songs - how 'bout 80s tech? on 07:38 - Apr 18 by Churchman
I had one of these only in silver. Cheaper than a Sony Walkman but did exactly the same job. It revolutionised listening to music because you could listen to your own stuff on the move in privacy.
I also had a Commodore VIc20 that still worked after my mate dropped a cup of coffee into it.
Lastly, one of the early dvd players. It was a Sony that cost £200 in about 1984. Great bit of kit even if the band powering the dvd drawer did break in three months.
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Known as laser discs back then I seem to remember?
We had the Amstrad CPC 464. An excellent bit of kit.
So 80s songs - how 'bout 80s tech? on 07:50 - Apr 18 by Help
I have an acorn electron in my loft with cassette player and tapes for games. a sony walkman, that still works, and sony discman, that also works
I had an Acorn Election... with Plus 1, which added memory and extra ports.
Loved that guy, amazing to think back now how much you could do with so little memory (the basic computer was 32k). But when I moved onto an Amiga that just blew me away. The graphics were on another level.
Elite was the best game around then. On the Electron it could only be line drawings because of the memory, but it was still brilliantly addictive...
EDIT: Dunno why I thought 500k, just looked it up and it only had 32k of memory. That's less than a photo you might attach to an email these days!
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Trust the process. Trust Phil.
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So 80s songs - how 'bout 80s tech? on 08:35 - Apr 18 with 2518 views
So 80s songs - how 'bout 80s tech? on 08:28 - Apr 18 by The_Flashing_Smile
I had an Acorn Election... with Plus 1, which added memory and extra ports.
Loved that guy, amazing to think back now how much you could do with so little memory (the basic computer was 32k). But when I moved onto an Amiga that just blew me away. The graphics were on another level.
Elite was the best game around then. On the Electron it could only be line drawings because of the memory, but it was still brilliantly addictive...
EDIT: Dunno why I thought 500k, just looked it up and it only had 32k of memory. That's less than a photo you might attach to an email these days!
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The Amiga was absolutely fantastic, wasn't it. Not only were the games great compared to everything I'd had before, but I was also able to do a bit of desk top publishing on it on behalf of my old man. I think the software was called PagePlus, but there might have been another earlier or later title as well. Also used a word processor called, I think, Wordsworth.
Favourite games were flight sims particularly a WWI one which I can't remember the name of, a tank sim (...got it, M1 Tank Platoon, which was basic graphically but atmospherically was superb), Alone in the Dark and some thing I can vaguely remember where you tromped around in an exo-skeleton.
Don't think I had Elite until I had a PC, but the Blue Danube is in my head for the day now!
So 80s songs - how 'bout 80s tech? on 13:27 - Apr 18 by Bluemer
If I remember rightly, this took longer to program in than it took to play the game
Man, I remembered the sound so clearly. Bit dusty here, remember playing this my old man. Later on he tried to replace the PP3 power source with a little transformer he'd borrowed from something else and blew a diode as far as I remember.
So 80s songs - how 'bout 80s tech? on 15:59 - Apr 18 by hoppy
I had one of these before we got our 16k ZX Spectrum...
Used to go round my mate's to play one of those. Basically the first computer/games console wasn't it? Incredible what we have now when you think back to that!
Trust the process. Trust Phil.
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So 80s songs - how 'bout 80s tech? on 16:46 - Apr 18 with 2233 views
So 80s songs - how 'bout 80s tech? on 15:59 - Apr 18 by hoppy
I had one of these before we got our 16k ZX Spectrum...
I had one of these, well the household did anyway
No idea when I began here, was a very long time ago. Previously known as Spirit_of_81. Love cheese, hate the colour of it, this is why it requires some blue in it.
So 80s songs - how 'bout 80s tech? on 16:05 - Apr 18 by hoppy
I used to have this running for days on end on my Speccy...
Fella's got that right: - R. Osman worth five times what K. Keegan was worth. - S McCall worth four times what K. Keegan was worth. - B. Talbot worth three times what K. Keegan was worth.
So 80s songs - how 'bout 80s tech? on 21:21 - Apr 17 by NthQldITFC
I was a 'Horace And The Spiders' boy, myself, and we could only afford 16K at the time. I can hear the thing loading now!
There was a TV series about Sinclair a few years ago wasn't there, or am I imagining it? I believe there was a character with Tourette's in it who came out with "Banjo f**ker!" in the pub and no-one batted an eyelid. This US one I'm watching is good, but it lacks certain British idiosyncrasies.
So 80s songs - how 'bout 80s tech? on 19:42 - Apr 18 by NthQldITFC
Fella's got that right: - R. Osman worth five times what K. Keegan was worth. - S McCall worth four times what K. Keegan was worth. - B. Talbot worth three times what K. Keegan was worth.
There was a massive Town bias in that game. There was only a small pool of players available and a significant percentage were town players.
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