This was the second computer we had in our house and as kids we used it daily to play and tinker. I recall we had a speech synthesis chip and could make it talk with a rather British accent :)
Lots of hours playing Elite and other games. It was a cool setup.

Yes, i got myself a BBC Micro for my Exhibition, never use to play with one
of these, but they where big thing in th 80's. The BBC did the right thing i would habe loved if our ORF in Austria would have done the same here.

But the Computer is really a nice thing and yes ELITE is WOW.

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On 03 Jun 2021 at 08:06p, goto_KCM pondered and said...

Yes, i got myself a BBC Micro for my Exhibition, never use to play with one of these, but they where big thing in th 80's. The BBC did the
right thing i would habe loved if our ORF in Austria would have done the same here.

But the Computer is really a nice thing and yes ELITE is WOW.

I played that game a lot and also a version of computer chess too :)

I used to watch the BBS TV show that talked about the BBC Micro and showed people how to code... they were fun times.

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Hey!

On 29 May 2021 at 09:06a, 8-Bit pondered and said...

Nice, I would love to get my hands on some computers only available outside of the US sometime. While we had some great computers, it see there are so many great alternatives.

I guess others outside of the USA feel the same way too :)

I did get to play with TRS-80 at high school and the Apple IIe back in
the day... they were cool too.

I grew up in the UK, and whilst I had a ZX spectrum at home, really the BBC
ran rings around the Speccy. The model B specifically was a triumph. Retro
Man cave has a great video where he deep dives into the beeb. I like to think of the BBC as all of the best bits of most of the contemporary 8-bits at the time all in one machine. I love the Apple ][, but the beeb was superior in
all ways, specifically graphics and sound though were the most important.
It's a shame it didn't have much more of an international market, because if
it did, it would have likely given the C64 a run for its money. I could envisage a Model C which has 64k RAM as standard. BBC Basic was a triumph, besting Microsoft BASIC (which is a huge call!).

I would dearly love to have a BBC back in my collection. Getting them out
here in NZ is pretty tricky though these days unfortunately.

Cheers,
Al


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a shame it didn't have much more of an international market, because
if it did, it would have likely given the C64 a run for its money.
I could envisage a Model C which has 64k RAM as standard. BBC Basic
was a triumph, besting Microsoft BASIC (which is a huge call!).

I'm not sure where they went, but we had Beebs in Aus.. I think some schools �had them, and the rest were Apple IIs. In the late 80's I was working in a �small 'pooter store, it mostly sold second hand "scheisse". Not sure where it �came from but one of the owners came in with a Beeb Model B to try and move. �We actually sold it to an irish couple who took it back to the UK.

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Hello hyjinx!

** On Saturday 12.06.21 - 15:55, hyjinx wrote to Avon:

I grew up in the UK, and whilst I had a ZX spectrum at
home, really the BBC ran rings around the Speccy. The model
B specifically was a triumph.

A couple weeks ago I "discovered" a docudrama called Micro Men.
I believe that the ZX Spectrum made a cameo appearance.

Micro Men (2009) - a story about the rivalry betwen Sinclair
and Acorn computers in the UK during the PC goldrush of the
80's:

https://youtu.be/XXBxV6-zamM

For anyone familiar with the Halt and Catch Fire tv series,
this is a worthy inclusion to consider.

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On 12 Jun 2021 at 03:55p, hyjinx pondered and said...

I grew up in the UK, and whilst I had a ZX spectrum at home, really the BBC ran rings around the Speccy. The model B specifically was a triumph.

Yep I agree, this is what my brother and I used as kids. I did have the ZX81
in my room too so I was a lucky lad. My brother spent a lot of time
programming the micro as a kid. He's now working in the IT field too :)

contemporary 8-bits at the time all in one machine. I love the Apple ][, but the beeb was superior in all ways, specifically graphics and sound

Apple IIe were about during my high school years. The school I was at started to add them as a computer classroom towards my final year at school. I wold
go there most lunchtimes to play games and poke at BASIC code etc.

I would dearly love to have a BBC back in my collection. Getting them out here in NZ is pretty tricky though these days unfortunately.

I feel the same way about getting a Speak N Spell that works... I have one (from my childhood) but the power supply I think failed on the board and I
have no way of knowing how to repair it... not really the skills to do so. :(

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A couple weeks ago I "discovered" a docudrama called Micro Men.
I believe that the ZX Spectrum made a cameo appearance.

Micro Men (2009) - a story about the rivalry betwen Sinclair
and Acorn computers in the UK during the PC goldrush of the
80's:

https://youtu.be/XXBxV6-zamM

Definitely worth a watch. I watched it yeeears ago when it first came out.
And yes, halt and catch fire is good, especially season 1. It started getting
a bit silly in s2/s3 but still watchable.

Cheers,
Al


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.... And yes, halt and catch fire is good, especially season 1. It
started getting a bit silly in s2/s3 but still watchable.

Not sure how I missed this, but it sounds pretty interesting.

Thanks for the heads-up :)

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I feel the same way about getting a Speak N Spell that works... I have
one (from my childhood) but the power supply I think failed on the board and I have no way of knowing how to repair it... not really the skills
to do so. :(

Theres a lot of info out there about repairing (and even bending/modifying) the speak n spell... sure you'd need to break out the sauder iron, but I bet one could learn that machine fairly easy. Heck, with Youtube, you can just follow along almost. :P

If I owned one I'd have to crack it open and try to get her talking again. :P



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Micro Men (2009) - a story about the rivalry betwen Sinclair
and Acorn computers in the UK during the PC goldrush of the
80's:

https://youtu.be/XXBxV6-zamM
For anyone familiar with the Halt and Catch Fire tv series,
this is a worthy inclusion to consider.

Nice! I'll have to check that out.

Halt and Catch Fire was pretty good. I think it was very loosely based on sone true events. But it's worth the watch.

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For anyone familiar with the Halt and Catch Fire tv series,
this is a worthy inclusion to consider.

Halt and Catch Fire was pretty good. I think it was very loosely based
on sone true events. But it's worth the watch.

I enjoyed Halt and Catch Fire. Mixing of TI & IBM companies along with all
the computers that they developed their online software for.

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Hello hyjinx!

** On Saturday 12.06.21 - 15:55, hyjinx wrote to Avon:

I grew up in the UK, and whilst I had a ZX spectrum at
home, really the BBC ran rings around the Speccy. The model
B specifically was a triumph.

A couple weeks ago I "discovered" a docudrama called Micro Men.
I believe that the ZX Spectrum made a cameo appearance.

Micro Men (2009) - a story about the rivalry betwen Sinclair
and Acorn computers in the UK during the PC goldrush of the
80's:

https://youtu.be/XXBxV6-zamM

For anyone familiar with the Halt and Catch Fire tv series,
this is a worthy inclusion to consider.

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Nice, I'll have a look when I have some time - I have an Archimedes A5000 he
re
at home, fully internet capable, RiscOS was awesome!

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Hello Cozmo.

23 Jun 21 11:09, you wrote to Ogg:

Micro Men (2009) - a story about the rivalry betwen Sinclair
and Acorn computers in the UK during the PC goldrush of the
80's:

https://youtu.be/XXBxV6-zamM
For anyone familiar with the Halt and Catch Fire tv series,
this is a worthy inclusion to consider.

Nice! I'll have to check that out.

Halt and Catch Fire was pretty good. I think it was very loosely based
on sone true events. But it's worth the watch.

yess Halt and Catch Fire is great! the main character and the story is based mainly on several tech stars of the era. they are changing from one to another depending on where they are in the timeline. definitely worth watching it, at least the first two episodes, because after they are starting to push it to
a love story..

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