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Remember the good ol' days?

No I'm not talking about Pentiun III, Pentium II, or even 386 processors.

I'm talking about the original PC, the XT.

You know, the ones with 16K of ram, a 4.77 mhz processor,

We had the Sinclair Spectrum 48K, you Blokes over the Pond had the Sinclair Timex 48K...

Same computers. Different names. Same Bundle of Joy!... ...!!

Paul....A bit of an 8-Bit Enthusiast... 8-)...!

P.S. My mop of hair is still a sleek shade of (stress-free) Black...
...and I've still got all my old, 1970's onwards, Computers and Software!......!

P.S. One of the first of my Sinclair Spectrum 48K Computers cost me

Some serious jaggy problems there ....I think you should turn the AA on your card up  ;D

great pics

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I remember the old green crt's as it was what the spectrum came with, these sure bring back some happy memories

3FPS flicker free monitor...LOL

...The Operating System language was/is the built-in, excellent Sinclair BASIC.

Blimey, that brings back memories...

PEEK, POKE, GOSUB, BEEP....

R2D2 eat your heart out...  8-)

...The Operating System language was/is the built-in, excellent Sinclair BASIC.

Blimey, that brings back memories...

PEEK, POKE, GOSUB, BEEP....

R2D2 eat your heart out...  8-)

...time to re-live your miss-spent youf, Rob!..>>>

http://www.spectaculator.com/

Fitted with the Multiface II (hacking machine!...... ..!

I've got the pre-Payware Spectaculator version on CD!.... ...!

Paul...LD HL (23756).... 8-)...!

...how I love good old-fashioned Machine Code...!

And talk about expensive... I bought an Apple 2E to replace my TI-99.

In 1982 that Apple set me back $2500 and did not even include a hard drive. For the money I did get Apple Works (similar to MS office) a color monitor, a color printer and 2 360M floppy drives.

The good news was a ribbon for the color was less than $10.00.

An external 40M HDD was something like $800. I installed a Z80 card so I could run CPM on it. Later I installed a memory board from Applied Electronics ($500) that would let you load your software to the memory which greatly improved the speed of the application loaded. But once you turned the computer off everything dumped from the board.

Applications were very hard to come buy so I did a lot of programming in Apple Basic and got fairly adept with machine language.

For what I had invested in the computer I could build a real kick butt computer today and probably have money left over.

And talk about expensive... I bought an Apple 2E to replace my TI-99.

In 1982 that Apple set me back $2500 and did not even include a hard drive. For the money I did get Apple Works (similar to MS office) a color monitor, a color printer and 2 360M floppy drives.

The good news was a ribbon for the color was less than $10.00.

An external 40M HDD was something like $800. I installed a Z80 card so I could run CPM on it. Later I installed a memory board from Applied Electronics ($500) that would let you load your software to the memory which greatly improved the speed of the application loaded. But once you turned the computer off everything dumped from the board.

Applications were very hard to come buy so I did a lot of programming in Apple Basic and got fairly adept with machine language.

For what I had invested in the computer I could build a real kick butt computer today and probably have money left over.

$800 for 40MB?!?

YES.. That was the going price in the early 80s

YES.. That was the going price in the early 80s

Wow...I can get a CD for 4 cents...

It's amazing, ain't it? I think I'll leave the oldies to the guys who know what they're talking about.  ;)

And thank for the link, Papa.  :D

That's awesome.  ;D I started on FS4. Ahhhh, memories...

My phone has 600kbs of RAM...think I could load FS5 on it?

And talk about expensive... I bought an Apple 2E to replace my TI-99.

In 1982 that Apple set me back $2500 and did not even include a hard drive. For the money I did get Apple Works (similar to MS office) a color monitor, a color printer and 2 360M floppy drives........

I've still got the remains of my old Apple 2E, in bits, in a cardboard box, somewhere in my garage.... ...

The real fun started with my Sinclair Spectrum 48k's, and Commodore C64's....
....and hours of glorious Machine Code programming!...[smiley=thumbsup.gif]...!

Paul...Zilog Z80 Enthusiast.... 8-)...!