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Well this beauty is the Commodore 64, Released in August 1982, Making it 40 years old It has a MOS 6510 CPU at 1MHz, a wonderful adorable, SID 6581 Chip, which produces the most wonderful sounds in like ever, 64K of RAM, and a 25 X 40 Text or 320 X 200 Graphics Mode with…
Well this is the Atari ST, released in June 1985, 39 years ago, and I never actually ever owned one of these, although a friend of mine had one thanks to his wonderful parents (well maybe not heh) The Atari ST was not a favourite machine of mine, I did, and still do think it…
This is the Amiga 500, code-named “Rock Lobster”, which is now 37 years old It was announced in January 1987, and was released in April 1987 in the Netherlands, and May 1987 in Europe, and cost 499 GBP, which was later reduced to 399 GBP in 1988 It used the standard 880KB Floppy Disks, and…
As it is BASIC’s (Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) Birthday, which first appeared all the way back on 1st May 1964, way before I was even thought of, since my Mum waited till 1977 to pop me out (Thanks Mum) I thought I would do a little tribute to the language, so BASICally here it…
This is the Amiga 600 Computer, Released in March 1992, 32 Years ago this month (Could not find an exact date of release, if anyone can help with this, please let me know) The Amiga 600 was the last model to feature the Motorola 68000 and the ECS (Enhanced Chip Set) and it was a…
Well since it is the Commodore PET’s 47th Birthday (January 1977), and because it was created in the year I was born, I thought I would do a little Tribute to the old machine The PET had a MOS 6502 CPU at 1MHz, originally shipped with 4K RAM (later models had 8K), a text display…
This lovely machine is the BBC Micro, which was released 1st December 1981, 42 years ago today! It had a 2MHz MOS CPU and had a mere 32KB of RAM, and 5 1/4″ floppy disk storage, its Graphics for the time were great, and you had a 640×256 8 colour display, sound was powered by…
Happy Birthday to the CD32 – which celebrates its 30th Birthday Today! (17 Sep 1993) I personally never bought a CD32, because it is in reality just an Amiga 1200 which was converted into a CD32, and it had a modified Kickstart 3.1 with CD32 Firmware added on, as well as a pretty decent musical…
Today we celebrate the birthday of the Commodore Amiga 1000, The first ever Amiga which was released on 23rd July 1985, making it 38 years old as of 2023 It has a Motorola 68000 CPU at 7.14MHz, 256K Stock or 8MB Max Memory, a 16 Colour display at 640 X 400 or 4096 Color Display…
Happy Birthday to the Wonderful Amiga 1200 – 30 years old Today! The Amiga 1200 was the second machine I ever bought, in the Amiga-line, and I never looked back, with its truly excellent graphics powered by the AGA chip, to its 2MB of built-in Memory, with an optional 8MB which could be fitted via…
The Atari 2600 was released waaaay back on 11th September 1977, the same year I was born, this was the first ever Computer I had, and it brings back fond memories of loading up various Games, and playing it with my family in turns In its wooden box, with 4 switches and 1 Cartridge Slot,…
As it is the ZX Spectrums 40th Birthday, I wanted to also commemorate this Marvellous Piece of Engineering by the Late Sir Clive Sinclair (Age 81, 30 Jul 1940 – 16 Sep 2021) For me personally, the ZX Spectrum brings back many memories, not only because it is so memorable for its Games and Programming…
