A number of these Consoles have been reissued in mini size. They come with the games preinstalled. I got a Spectrum from my brother. I loved it. The worst was when the loading failed, you had to start again. My Mum purchased it from W H Smith's with 25% Staff Discount as she worked for the Company.
First computer was an OSI (Ohio Scientific), 5.5 inch floppies, tape, and keyboard 6502 processor 16MB ram if I recall correctly. Then my company went 'big' with an OSI machine and a 72MB hard drive, 3 processor motherboard 6502, 6800 and z80. Centronics pin printer w/ribbon, multi-user and 64MB ram. Kept records of over 3000 clients.
@@jimwood1968CDcollectorCAVE Well the first computer I used was an IBM 7040 with punch cards, writing a 5 card loader, handing the cards to operator and getting the results hours later as each program 'batch' was run. (wrote in machine code)
I remember the zx 81 , commodore then the spectrum , which seemed much more advanced at that time , you could Programme & make your own games using the codes from the magazines if i remember correctly .
A number of these Consoles have been reissued in mini size. They come with the games preinstalled. I got a Spectrum from my brother. I loved it. The worst was when the loading failed, you had to start again. My Mum purchased it from W H Smith's with 25% Staff Discount as she worked for the Company.
Yes you are right pre installs. Remember Manic Miner and Hungry Horace?
Thanks for the shout out Jim ! You are a gent and a scholar ❤
First computer was an OSI (Ohio Scientific), 5.5 inch floppies, tape, and keyboard 6502 processor 16MB ram if I recall correctly. Then my company went 'big' with an OSI machine and a 72MB hard drive, 3 processor motherboard 6502, 6800 and z80. Centronics pin printer w/ribbon, multi-user and 64MB ram. Kept records of over 3000 clients.
I remember the days where company computers were the size of a room almost. Thanks for that Robert
@@jimwood1968CDcollectorCAVE Well the first computer I used was an IBM 7040 with punch cards, writing a 5 card loader, handing the cards to operator and getting the results hours later as each program 'batch' was run. (wrote in machine code)
I remember the zx 81 , commodore then the spectrum , which seemed much more advanced at that time , you could Programme & make your own games using the codes from the magazines if i remember correctly .