Vintage Computers

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I have a BBC Micro, Apple Lisa (x6) and some Atari and ZX Spectrums. Also about 50x laptops that used to run Windows 3.1 and just dos. Some of my Toshibas still work.
 
Corelli said:
I have a BBC Micro, Apple Lisa (x6) and some Atari and ZX Spectrums. Also about 50x laptops that used to run Windows 3.1 and just dos. Some of my Toshibas still work.
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If you have an 800xl and ever want to part with it............
Started my computer experiences with a BBC Micro the school had, then the teacher bright in his own Acorn Electron. Then my whole family clubbed together to buy an Atari 800xl pack, still remember the big box it all came in. Christmas joy.
 
Little Mac said:
Lucky guy, the 800xl was sweet
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Really lucky, both my dad and grandad got into them as well, grandad bought his own setup, dad bought all the peripherals, we had the disk drive and printer (remember driving across the UK looking for the printer) and every issue of Page 6 magazine. My dad and I would sit for hours typing in the games from the pages. Monopoly and Bomb Run. My grandad went to Russia and brought me back a joystick, looked like a modern mouse but with buttons underneath that you leaned on to make movement, plugged it in and the controls were backwards, great fun taking it apart and rewiring it.
 
Stuey74 said:
Really lucky, both my dad and grandad got into them as well, grandad bought his own setup, dad bought all the peripherals, we had the disk drive and printer (remember driving across the UK looking for the printer) and every issue of Page 6 magazine. My dad and I would sit for hours typing in the games from the pages. Monopoly and Bomb Run. My grandad went to Russia and brought me back a joystick, looked like a modern mouse but with buttons underneath that you leaned on to make movement, plugged it in and the controls were backwards, great fun taking it apart and rewiring it.
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A bit like this one?

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Stuey74 said:
Really lucky, both my dad and grandad got into them as well, grandad bought his own setup, dad bought all the peripherals, we had the disk drive and printer (remember driving across the UK looking for the printer) and every issue of Page 6 magazine. My dad and I would sit for hours typing in the games from the pages. Monopoly and Bomb Run. My grandad went to Russia and brought me back a joystick, looked like a modern mouse but with buttons underneath that you leaned on to make movement, plugged it in and the controls were backwards, great fun taking it apart and rewiring it.
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Have you stripped it completely to check for any bugs which the KGB may have planted inside it? :ROFL:
 
Little Mac said:
Haha, sounds awesome. Sounds like you had a good childhood. What did your grandpops do in Russia? That would have been the 80s?
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Yeah, around 86 or 87. He had just retried and my grandparents wanted to travel the world a bit, went on holiday to Moscow. The next year they wanted to go to the US (and take me) but they were denied a visa having been in the USSR so recently.
 
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