Yo MERLIN! THANK you very much
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I saw this little 3 each 8 bitter console bunch and just swept it right to my cart with a big smile! I started off with my first ever off the shelf computer system with a Timex/Sinclair 1000 bundle with 16K rampack and Frogger tape for $29.99 at a KMart Blue Light Special sale. Me and the missus were expecting about $100 for the lot. What a journey that morning at KMart sparked off! LOL! These machines of yours were much more advanced. For that moment anyway!
Thanks for making it! What a trip down memory lane!
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The retro computers also made me very happy! I follow a bunch of YouTubers whose subject is retro computers and gaming. My first computers were Pong and after that I got a ZX Spectrum. Good times!
I started with an Atari 800... I see a commodore here... but other than that, I like this set a lot. Will buy it for sure ... thanks ... I was way into the old computers. I had a drive, tape deck, and a whopping 48K of ram.
What is the one that is black? It looks pretty modern
Certainly brings back some memories. LodeRunner and the C64 = hours of mis spent youth.
Another old dude checking in. Owned TRS-80, Timex/Sinclair, Atari 400/800, C64, Arari ST and Amiga 500/2000. These look great Merlin.
Commodore 64 was the first computer I really remember and I have happy childhood memories playing in it with my dad and brother. (Dang that Babel fish!! Hahahah) Given my father passed away a few years ago, really makes me sentimental.
Thank you!
I will absolutely be grabbing this later on, once I've worked out what I want my free PC+ items for today to be.
While I suspect that simple production numbers will mean that more of the buyers will be interested in the Commodore 64, what my family had was the BBC Micro Model B (with them also being a reasonably common sight during my school years - they were pretty ubiquitious at one time in British schools), so a model of that is very welcome.
thanks.. I looked it up just now..a very nice system. Didn't see that or the BBC Micro in the states, at least for sale, that I can remember. I was pretty into computers back then. read all the magazines, hit as many stores as possible
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I was a BBC B guy. Wish I still had it, together with the ROMs. Happy days.
Dude, where's the Datasette?
Ah.. I forgot... has to be bought extra for the nearly the same price as the C64 like in the old days, right?
Anyone have the Koala drawing pad, or some of the early light pens using screen refresh timing?
Ran a BBS on a Commodore 64, using a 1200 baud modem with Wildcat BBS software. Alll contained on a single 3 and 1/2 inch disk in a 1581 disk drive.
Eventually graduated up to a 128 with a 2400 baud modem (that never connected at 2400).
It also had to have a 1702 monitor, instead of the standard TV connection. I think that requirement had something to do with the BBS software.
pssssssssh-BLAAAAAAAAAA-pssss-SSSSS-sssssh-bing-bing-bing-naaaaaaaaaa-click-click
That sound will be forever embeded into my psyche.
We got our VIC-20 at K-Mart at the same time... the VIC was $100.00 and then we bought the tape strage, a RAM expander and some games. It was so amazing to own a real computer, and then we upgraded to the Commodore 64 as soon as that incredible piece of hardware came out. I still have both machines, as well as a backup C-64, sitting in a closet at my mom's house... maybe it's time to pull them out and play a game of Zork..
I have a Koala pad but it stopped working a long time ago. :( It was an interesting toy, but the end results always looked like they'd been filtered through an Etch-a-sketch.
The dataset was really more for the V-20. By the time the Commodore launched we had those wonderful 5 1/4" floppy disc drives. Whee!
Merlin? Can we get a volume 2? And maybe a volume 3? Apple ][+/e, TRS-80s, Altairs, Timex/Sinclairs, Atari 400/800, Amigas, Commodore PET, etc?
And maybe an Expansion pack with the Expansions for them? Cassette drives, Floppy drives, etc?
RetroComputing is such a passion of mine.
(I'm building actual front-panel kits, with switches and derblinkenlights, for emulating PDP-8 and PDP-11 minis. Oh, the days of front panel switches! )
Wow! You folks brought up items I've had, wished I had, and now have gear that is many times better. Koala Pad I remember, but got a Kurta Tablet instead, took it back the next day. 1/4" resolution is hardly usable for drawing. Today I have 4 or 5 Wacom pen tablets, each have function and purpose the others don't. My fave is the Intuos 3 6x8" with all three of the multi axis pens. The only thing better for drawing would be a touch screen monitor with fine point pen. But the Intuos is hard to beat!
I was playing with digital electronics for a couple years before the timex. That stuff with socket boards, discrete components,chips and a two foot high stack of books was a lot of useful fun. The missus didn't like it. I overdid that.
Then, after the T/S 1000 I had a Timex 2068. Atari 800XL twice. Commodore Plus 4 with a floppy disk for both those. Then got a Tandy 1000a. Good thing to learn on, but not a real PC. Stepped back to a console with the first true 32 bit machine I bought. Atari 1040 ST fmd. That went to the kids, and I had a 80286 machine built. From that time in the late 80's, I built my own. Finally, the hardware/technology had improved to the point I had a better time working with the machine rather than ON the machine.
Many clone builds later, I stumbled into DAZ3D. And lightened up on the gaming (QUAKE! Half Life! Unreal Tournament!) and began really enjoying digital imaging. Four years after finding DAZ, I was using Poser, PS CS4E, etc. And this old quadcore Q9550-8gigs DDR2 was built. It's had a few video cards, this 750W single 12V rail PSU is its 4th PSU, more HD's than I can recall, a couple different optical drives and finally started using SSD's. 4 going now. It's sure a lot quieter now. I just keep repairing and upgrading it. But, the main 3 are getting long in tooth now. 11 years. Wow. Knocking on wood!
Yeah, I am glad to have these 3 oldies Merlin brought to us!
Atari 400. I was a master at pacman.
Centipede! Adventure! Wing Commander! Hours lost? YEARS.
Archon! Mail Order Monsters!
I still spend time playing some of the old games. Replaying Half Life 2 over and over. I have 4 of the latest Tombraiders in Steam, but they turned into sports games. I still play the original Unreal. I kinda miss the old Duke Nukem 3D. I've noted for years now that this stuff is a lifestyle. We, brothers and sisters, are some of the nerdiest geeks alive. Know what? I think that's a compliment.
Anyone else get all wrapped up in the new movie, "Ready Player One" ? I bought it Walmart.com when I ordered my set of Blue Diamond cookware. That set is simple self preservation. Gotta eat, and can't have much fast food any more. Yep. 4 SSD's, no spinners. Three fans, PSU, CPU and GPU. And since you all know what those three little acronyms are, YOU ARE GEEKS! LOL!
Merry Christmas All!
I still love exploring stuff in games. I'd rather do that than shoot or fight, jump or do kewl tricks. But folks don't make games like that much.
My desk.
Oh cool!
Good lord and I thought I had a dinosaur with Tandy back in the mid eighties!
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