Vintage PCs

[Brassneck]

A vintage PC gallery has just opened at the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park. For those of you of a certain age here is something to make you feel nostalgic:

Vintage PC Gallery now Opened at Bletchley Park’s National Museum of Computing | Gizmophobe Technology & Gaming

I still have a boxed ZX80 which I remember my dad buying for me from a newspaper advert. Used to love the challenge of programming in 1K of RAM with no floating point arithmetic.

Stephen.

 

[retired_member16]

I always feel kind of left out when the nerds at work start talking about old school PCs and 20 goto 10 and all that jazz. I only got my first PC about 6 years ago. I did have a Commodore 64 but only ever played games on it.

On a website note Stephen - your top menu is all over the place in IE7

 

[Brassneck]

I always feel kind of left out when the nerds at work start talking about old school PCs and 20 goto 10 and all that jazz. I only got my first PC about 6 years ago. I did have a Commodore 64 but only ever played games on it.

On a website note Stephen - your top menu is all over the place in IE7

Cheers for the comment on the menu - yes need to sort that out - works in firefox though!

Stephen.

 

[aZooZa]

A vintage PC gallery has just opened at the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park. For those of you of a certain age here is something to make you feel nostalgic:

Vintage PC Gallery now Opened at Bletchley Park’s National Museum of Computing | Gizmophobe Technology & Gaming

I still have a boxed ZX80 which I remember my dad buying for me from a newspaper advert. Used to love the challenge of programming in 1K of RAM with no floating point arithmetic.

Stephen.

Nostalgia! As I remember, the FPU came in the later 8K ROM, which is also mentioned in this OLD article:

SINCLAIR ZX80

I expect that boxed machine is worth a bit Stephen

 

[devolution]

My first computer...
Video Genie System

 

[Brassneck]

Nostalgia! As I remember, the FPU came in the later 8K ROM, which is also mentioned in this OLD article:

SINCLAIR ZX80

I expect that boxed machine is worth a bit Stephen

Yes - it's still at my mum and dad's. I must get it out some time.

Stephen.

 

[disruptive]

Thanks!

The museum is not totally new! It used to be called retro bleep and I had visited numerous time. Looks a lot better now judging from the pictures!

B