Topic: NFO files

[Dack]

Yeah it was a ZX-80. I built it from a kit A while later I upgraded the hardware so that it pretended it was a ZX-81. Then I got a BBC A, which I upgraded to B spec with the help of that kid whose mother worked in AB Electronics where the Beebs were made. Do you remember him?

That would be Dodgy Mark IIRC I got banned from his house by his parents after an incident where I might have insinuated he was gay to his mother and her best friend  :-[ ........I later found out he started doing the computer fairs and conning people   He was selling broken hard drives and claiming they could be RMA'd back to the companies. A LOT of people were looking for him at one point (including IBM).

After the Beeb (I still have it BTW), I got an Atari ST 1024 (I think). Didn't have it long - I "upgraded" to a second-hand 286. I still have the same machine, it's served me well. I've only had to change the processor, motherboard, hard disk, floppy drive, cd-rom and case

(c) trigger

If you check out that www.atari.st site and have a look at some of the Automation disks you may find some of my old work

Been getting a few good deals from shops recently so house is full of machines, girlfriend very unimpressed. Current setups:

P4 @3.0G hyperthreading, with 512 ram, DVD Writer etc - cost me £400
P4 @2.8G hyperthreading, with 512 ram, DVD Writer etc (cost me £150   did have a broken hard drive though, which I've RMA'd)
XP2500 system
XP1800 system
AMD K6-2-450 system
P2 - 333

Now run out of places to store things and, since all are internet machines, I keep losing emails - can never remember which machine I downloaded them to

[Simon]

Now run out of places to store things and, since all are internet machines, I keep losing emails - can never remember which machine I downloaded them to

I can do that with just one machine!  

Did either of you two have that Atari Ping Pong thing you plugged into your TV, and if you left it on for long enough, it would burn your screen?    I still have that somewhere.  I was totally addicted to it when I was about 12 or 13.  

[Dack]

Um....I was on holiday in York recently and picked up one of them for 50p. Its the Binatone TV Master plus. A black and white games console with 4 games (and two more if I get the light gun).

Bright orange dayglo plastic  

[Clive]

I started with a Spectrum 16K which I upgraded to 48K.

That was followed with a BBC Master and an Archimedes.

Then it was PC's and I had a 386, 486, 200MHz, 600, 1200, 1900 and 2200 Athlons.  The 200, 600 and 1200 machines were all given to good homes when I finished with them and are all still in daily use.  I gave the earlier machines away too but I don't know if they are still in use.

[Adept]

Um....I was on holiday in York recently and picked up one of them for 50p. Its the Binatone TV Master plus. A black and white games console with 4 games (and two more if I get the light gun).

Bright orange dayglo plastic  

Ooooh I had one of those