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

[Daniel Pearson]

I don't suppose you have a PC that could copy some 5 1/4 disks onto 3.5"
ones? :|

Cheers,
Daniel

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Simon Scott" <sscott at iinet.net.au>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2003 10:37 PM
Subject: Re: [plug] Slightly OT.. 5 1/4 Drives


> 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 ;-)
>
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