Posts Tagged “Retro Computers”
My earliest memories of programming are directly related to the pain of not being able to save my work. The first proper computer my family owned was a Commodore Vic-20. I guess my parents bought it in 1984 or 1985 but it might have been earlier. The Vic-20 came out years before but this was [...]
Well, 2012 has turned out to be quite a year for retro computing. The Commodore 64 turned 30 this year, Jack Tramiel died, and the ZX Spectrum is 30 years old too! I have fond memories of the original 48K ZX Spectrum. Even though it had a tiny rubber keyboard it suited my much younger [...]
I have a collection of around 300 Commodore 64 5 1/4 disks. They were last used around 1995 and were kept in an unheated, sometimes damp room in my family home. It’s not all bad, I kept them in proper disk boxes so the disks were mostly upright during that time and not horizontal and [...]
