Return of the Specie (ZX)

[MPwannadecentincome]

They were great at the time, a real keyboard was damn expensive, it was the BBC, Dragon, Commodore (erm what the hell was that thing called?) and the likes where they got better, but the Spectrum was a LOT cheaper.

I worked for an IBM warranty company out of Uni and the keyboards were £217 + VAT to them back in the dark days of the PC and XT in the 1980's.

It was the Commodore 64, there was also a Commodore Pet I think for business.

don't forget to add the Trash 80 to the list!

[alluvial]

It was the Commodore 64, there was also a Commodore Pet I think for business.

don't forget to add the Trash 80 to the list!

I have fond memories of the Commodore Pet. My second job after college was in a lab in Tredegar as a lab assistant. They discovered that I could do a bit of programming and ended up creating data aquisition and control systems for the factory machinery. Great fun and I wish I'd continued in that vein.

I also tried using Locomotive Basic on the Amstrad running Gem, gave up on that after a bit.

[TykeMerc]

It was the Commodore 64, there was also a Commodore Pet I think for business.

don't forget to add the Trash 80 to the list!

Ah yes, cheers for that.

I worked for a mainframe company that used Commodore Pets as site servers when comms links failed so I occasionally had to fix them

[alluvial]

Ah yes.

locomotive basic on top of Gem to give you 32k of program space in a 512k machine.

I remember it well.

Dumped in favour of IBM compiled basic very quickly.

They didn't stretch to compilers where I was working.
GW-BASIC programmes to control a number of peripherals via an IEEE interface board.
Come to think of it, I still have an old Amstrad in the loft that ran Norton Commander with a 30Mb hardrive. I've also got some of the peripherals and stuff as well.