A real blast from the past!!
 

Check this out old folks and have a look at the prices... :shocked::shocked::shocked:

http://ubuntuone.com/p/VzR/

My God things have moved on haven't they?.... :D

(I still have my Atari 520st too......)

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I was 15 when that issue came out and can remember all the PC's etc it mentions!!!! Great trip down memory lane :)

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512 ram expansion kit £99.95 ....excellent :D

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Good post Osem lol i found that very interesting and nuts too lol.....

How the times have changed.... lol...

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My God Emma Nicholson even looks attractive.... :D

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512k

My old man used to build simple games systems the first one was simply Pong then later there was Tank Battle and a silly motorcycle bus jump game

We always had tech in the house our first "computer" was the Atari 800 the we had the XL and XE we never had an ST for whatever reason. The old man hacked all these including adding the "happy" chip to the 5 inch floppy drive to by pass copy protection

I remember a visit to his work as a kid and having a go on a mainframe console which didnt have a screen everything you did was printed on a dot matrix printer. I played some sort of game but it was so long ago thats as well as my memory serves me lol

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I've still got all my 'Your Spectrum' Issues:

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Sorry about the camera flash! This came out Jan 1984!!

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mate had the zx81 playing camels on a green screen. God I am so glad things moved on as fast as they have. Its nice to look back but I wouldnt want to play with the hardware now. 20 minutes to load a game from a cassette and then it crashes wonderful days eh lol

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Ah yes, the speccy "R Tape Loading Error" springs to mind :D

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScKKkVtB2lc lol

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How sad :D As sad as 'invade-a-load on the C64': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqCR6xnv1kE

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Ha ha ha cracker lol i remember i had a zx spectrum + and done that when loading games ect lol....

How the times are a changing lol...

Nice one zing..:):)

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The "Dandy/Beano" of the techie world ,keep hold of them they may be worth something in about 50 yrs :D

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W00t :shocked: I'll be shocking dead then!!

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Good old Your Spectrum > Your Sinclair and the monthly tapes that came with it :P

Good days..

But my programming/debugging days didn't start until the A500 days. My first trip into Assembly and removing pesky protections from floppies on track 40/80