Ancient computer stuff you remember?

[Lady Whistledown]

Got me thinking...one for the old gits...ever had one of these?

or played stuff like this?

Or spent hours typing 200 lines of text, just for the thrill of getting a small spider graphic to repeat itself in rows across the screen?

How we used to live..

 

[Trigger]

My first ever computer...

With...

And...

 

[Barrel of Fun]

My my, we are feeling nostalgic today.

My prep school had these...

Repton; Chuckie Egg; Outrun; a fantastic football manager game impossible to win anything less than 4-0; Citadel; and many more classics.


My best friend had a commodore 64 and that would involve typing in "Please load the game"; followed by a half an hour wait for it to load. MOre often than not, it crashed. You would get about 10 minutes game time in a space of 2 hours. No wonder the latter generation were not so addicted to computer games.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

My my, we are feeling nostalgic today.

My prep school had these...

ALL schools had these, I think it was the law

They always had bits of food stuck between the keys from where kids had tried to sneakily eat their lunch out of sight of the stinky IT teacher...

 

[tedebear]

I had a commodore C64....With Winter Olympics on it! Woooohooooo

 

[bhafc99]

And you had to learn complex programming like:

10 Write: "Brighton are cool"
20 Goto 10
RUN


Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool

Ah those were the days!

 

[Trufflehound]

Or the mighty Commodore Pet, with integral floppy drive and a massive 32 kB of RAM.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

But after you typed all that, it would usually crash

 

[Hannibal smith]

And you had to learn complex programming like:

10 Write: "Brighton are cool"
20 Goto 10
RUN


Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool

Ah those were the days!

Hours of Fun. If Frank was here I'm sure it would be

10 Write 'I've had your mum'
20 Goto 10

 

[ezmally]

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Match Day 2, awesome. Spent hours on that game. What brilliant memories.
I remember my ZX Spectrum +2 hade a loose power connection and i had to put books or something heavy on the lead for it to work.
Also one of my mates kept his +2 running for about 3 months because he couldnt save his progress on Soccer Boss. The thing melted in the end.

 

[Curious Orange]

 

[clippedgull]

Or the mighty Commodore Pet, with integral floppy drive and a massive 32 kB of RAM.

Awesome machine

 

[Tricky Dicky]

8 Inch floppy disks. Good frisbee throwing !

 

[Lammy]

And you had to learn complex programming like:

10 Write: "Brighton are cool"
20 Goto 10
RUN


Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool
Brighton are cool

Ah those were the days!

10 PRINT "THIS ONE WILL WORK";
20 GOTO 10
RUN

 

[Gazwag]

Or spent hours typing 200 lines of text, just for the thrill of getting a small spider graphic to repeat itself in rows across the screen?

Or trying to load a game from a cassette which after twenty minutes of loading would come up with a crash.

God that tape recorded took some bashing when that happened

 

[bhafc99]

Or the mighty Commodore Pet, with integral floppy drive and a massive 32 kB of RAM.

Did you know that the onboard flight computer on Apollo 11, the first craft to land man on the moon, had just 36k of memory!

 

[Woodchip]

10 PRINT "THIS ONE WILL WORK";
20 GOTO 10
RUN

Glad I'm not the only nerd to notice the mistake.

You could make it complex as well with IF and LET commands so it only done X lines.

 

[tinx]

I remember these from when I was very young too.

 

[Trigger]

HORACE WAS QUALLA

WICKERD!

 

[Hannibal smith]

You can Stick Championship manager. I give you Football manager.