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beanzontoast
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I'm looking forward to episode 3 where from the trailer, it looks like the doorbell is going to be ringing every minute of the day, such was the pace of change in the 90's.
still have a C64 and an Amiga 1200 
the C64 was ace, remember typing in code out of magazines for games and failing miserably :/ Spent a a load of cash on my Amiga tho, was working so had plenty dosh, bought an Acellerator card which provided an extra 4mb of ram and some wizzy CPU as well 
Also bought a HD for it 200mb !! Cost me about £200!! 
the C64 was ace, remember typing in code out of magazines for games and failing miserably :/ Spent a a load of cash on my Amiga tho, was working so had plenty dosh, bought an Acellerator card which provided an extra 4mb of ram and some wizzy CPU as well Also bought a HD for it 200mb !! Cost me about £200!!
beanzontoast
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MrGrumpy said:still have a C64 and an Amiga 1200the C64 was ace, remember typing in code out of magazines for games and failing miserably :/ Spent a a load of cash on my Amiga tho, was working so had plenty dosh, bought an Acellerator card which provided an extra 4mb of ram and some wizzy CPU as well
Also bought a HD for it 200mb !! Cost me about £200!!
I loved my A1200 hd. Having endured loading programs by swapping endless floppies in and out on an A600, to have a hard drive was like entering a new world. I also had an external cd-rom (read only of course) for the A1200.
My A600 had to go back to the shop. When I bought it from Dixons (remember them?) and got it home, the display looked as if someone had already been fiddling with the icons. I took it back smartish and can still remember them saying the couldn't understand how it could have happened that the 'brand new' machine they'd sold me turned out to have been used already. They exchanged it, but it was the last purchase I ever made from them.
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Used to borrow a mates new game (C64) and make use of my Dads twin tape deck Hi-fi.
Also had one of the short lived MSX type computers - different manufacturers but a common OS.
Also had one of the short lived MSX type computers - different manufacturers but a common OS.
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Downward
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The 90's rrrrrrubbish !
In 97 with the advent of pay as you go phones the children are now all given phones (Nokias) !!
What twoddle - I paid £200 (I used to work full time and take home £550 a month)for a PAYG around then ( I was 20) and those Nokias came out a year later on contract (My missus at the time had one) so unless you came from a very rich family most children's parents wouldn't have been able to afford one.
Also the constant swapping of PC's !! Again whose family did this ? Most families couldn't afford a PC either. My 1st PC cost me £800 in 2001.
I had an Amiga in 1992 costing £300 and a Hifi costing £400 in 1993 which I both paid 3/4 for out of my paper round money and pocket money (Parents paid the rest for Xmas presents.
Jeez BBC we didn't all live in Middle Class surbibia in the 1990's !
In 97 with the advent of pay as you go phones the children are now all given phones (Nokias) !!
What twoddle - I paid £200 (I used to work full time and take home £550 a month)for a PAYG around then ( I was 20) and those Nokias came out a year later on contract (My missus at the time had one) so unless you came from a very rich family most children's parents wouldn't have been able to afford one.
Also the constant swapping of PC's !! Again whose family did this ? Most families couldn't afford a PC either. My 1st PC cost me £800 in 2001.
I had an Amiga in 1992 costing £300 and a Hifi costing £400 in 1993 which I both paid 3/4 for out of my paper round money and pocket money (Parents paid the rest for Xmas presents.
Jeez BBC we didn't all live in Middle Class surbibia in the 1990's !
Agree downward, I experienced those luxuries but took me alot of time/investment. Similar I guess to an xbox 360 now and not at launch date. The price difference makes a huge realism
Although the tech was available at a certain year, doesnt mean most people had one available in the household.
Although the tech was available at a certain year, doesnt mean most people had one available in the household.
Either it was a markedly sexier one than mine or else you wuz robbed there, mate. Amiga 500 in the late 80s was around £500 or maybe £400 for the basic model plus lots of games: by 1992 it was clear that development was going nowhere and I jumped ship to LinuxDownward said:
Stunt Car Racer is stil good fun, toho: I play it on UAE somethimes
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Commodore Vic20 was my first home pooter, although mates had ZX81s, Spectrums, Dragon 32s and the Jupiter Ace, which used Forth rather than Basic.
My first job was helping disabled people use BBC Micros. You could connect no end of switches and sensors to those things. We had a word processor controlled by two proximity sensors. In 1984, that was...
And...Prestel!!!! With a 1200/75 baud modem!!!!!
The great-great grandparent of teh interwebs!!!!
*goes all gooey with nostalgia*
My first job was helping disabled people use BBC Micros. You could connect no end of switches and sensors to those things. We had a word processor controlled by two proximity sensors. In 1984, that was...
And...Prestel!!!! With a 1200/75 baud modem!!!!!
The great-great grandparent of teh interwebs!!!!
*goes all gooey with nostalgia*
rh100
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BBS was slightly before my time - but I do remember them being around.
Watched the 90's episode today, not sure about what they said about the phones and pagers. I used a Motorola pager as late as 1998, and I seem to remember that my Dad had an analogue phone in the late 1980's that wasn't the size they were suggesting they were for the early 90's, it was quite small actually, them Motorola bricks were surely mid 80's?. And I first used SMS in 1995 when Orange Digital came out.
Watched the 90's episode today, not sure about what they said about the phones and pagers. I used a Motorola pager as late as 1998, and I seem to remember that my Dad had an analogue phone in the late 1980's that wasn't the size they were suggesting they were for the early 90's, it was quite small actually, them Motorola bricks were surely mid 80's?. And I first used SMS in 1995 when Orange Digital came out.
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the imac was a serious omission from the tech list. almost singlehandedly made tech cool and female friendly…
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that there aren't any pager networks any more…
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Downward
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alecstilleyedye said:
Only Internal ones now that work off your companies telephone system.
I started off with a ZX81 (with the 16k ram pack, woo hoo!). My favourite game was Monster Maze!
I then progressed on to a Spectrum + (almost had a real'ish keyboard). Some amazing games for the specy. I remember and loved, Attic Attack, Sensible Soccer 2, and Cobra. I used to look forward to my weekly copy of Sinclair user!
Then I moved up in the world with an Amiga 600. It had a 40Mb hard drive if I remember correctly!
Ah, those were the days. Because they were so basic and you did some programming, you got to know how they worked. Kids nowadays don't have a clue....
I then progressed on to a Spectrum + (almost had a real'ish keyboard). Some amazing games for the specy. I remember and loved, Attic Attack, Sensible Soccer 2, and Cobra. I used to look forward to my weekly copy of Sinclair user!
Then I moved up in the world with an Amiga 600. It had a 40Mb hard drive if I remember correctly!
Ah, those were the days. Because they were so basic and you did some programming, you got to know how they worked. Kids nowadays don't have a clue....
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I have recently installed a new game on my EEE901.
Manic Miner! *glees*
Manic Miner! *glees*
