[plug] Slightly OT.. 5 1/4 Drives

[Simon Scott]

I have a lot of this junk if anyone wants to play with it. I dont have a BBC, 
but Ive got an acorn achimedes, a commodore PET, many commodore 64s and 
related drives etc, so many A500s I want to die, A2000s, atari lynx, Atari 
2600, colecovision, TV pong, NES, SNES, Dreamcast, PSX etc etc etc... 
probably a bunch more old console stuff Ive forgotten about.

If anyone wants to get all retro, Im probably the guy to talk to. I still hack 
up some 6502 assembly on occasion just to get that old feeling back :)



On Sun, 21 Dec 2003 22:19, Ben New wrote:
> Ahhhh memories...
>
> Acorn was the company and the computers were called BBC Master
> Compacts.  They were standard issue in WA schools I think.  They had
> those dodgy ribbon cables between the box and the keyboard, and that
> submarine game with the wierd caterpillar thing.  At that stage I had an
> Amstrad CPC 664 which was much better IMO, and had at least the same
> stuff that was useful - BASIC and LOGO.  Of course the C64 was the most
> popular but they always had those horrendous tape drives (they had
> floppy drives but nobody seemed to have them).  Very resistant to
> physical punishment, though (probably a requirement caused by the tape
> drive...) and it also had a cartridge slot on which Wizards of Wor could
> be played ;-)