Reply to: What is your oldest PC stil in use?

[LondonManc]

Think I went through two Quickshot sticks of Joy before going onto the best one, Kempston Competition Pro.

Indestructible that one.

qh

Quickshot or Cheetah 125 for other sorts of games, Kempston for Decathlon, Supertest and Hypersports.

[clearedforlanding]

Once broke a Quickshot 2 plus joystick playing Yie Ar Kung-Fu on the C64.

Handle snapped clean off.

I once did a similar thing watching adult movies.

[quackhandle]

Once broke a Quickshot 2 plus joystick playing Yie Ar Kung-Fu on the C64.

Handle snapped clean off.

Think I went through two Quickshot sticks of Joy before going onto the best one, Kempston Competition Pro.

Indestructible that one.

qh

[NotAllThere]

I remember it but I can't recall why... Was it the amount of KB's of memory when you turned it on including the ROM chip?

Manic Miner cheat code.

[Lost It]

I remember it but I can't recall why... Was it the amount of KB's of memory when you turned it on including the ROM chip?

[LondonManc]

A bit of Nostalgia.

I miss the analogue days. Back when you bought something tactile. Not like now.

And back when a video game was released, working. No downloading updates in those days. I know video games are a gazillion times more complex and large, than in the past.

When stuff came on 7 floppy disks and you spent an age swapping them over to install.

worldofspectrum.org is your friend then.

6031769 is a number Speccy fans will remember.

[mallisarealperson]

No.

A bit of Nostalgia.

I miss the analogue days. Back when you bought something tactile. Not like now.

And back when a video game was released, working. No downloading updates in those days. I know video games are a gazillion times more complex and large, than in the past.

When stuff came on 7 floppy disks and you spent an age swapping them over to install.

[LondonManc]

Ocean software... I wonder what happened to them. Acquired, probably.

Now part of Namco, via Atari and Bandai iirc.

[jamesbrown]

Ocean software... I wonder what happened to them. Acquired, probably.

[mallisarealperson]

Once broke a Quickshot 2 plus joystick playing Yie Ar Kung-Fu on the C64.

Handle snapped clean off.

[LondonManc]

is that an euphemism?

No.

[vetran]

I've got a 48k, with a + case because Daley Thompson destroyed my keyboard membrane.

is that an euphemism?

[LondonManc]

I have a +2 and a +3 in the loft that might still work, but that doesn't count and there are probably some here that can go way earlier than 1984-ish

NF has a new ZX Spectrum Next...

I've got a 48k, with a + case because Daley Thompson destroyed my keyboard membrane.

[Lost It]

I still have my ZX81 somewhere. I remember building it, plugging it into the monitor and looking at this slowly blinking curser and thinking "Now what?" because I knew SFA about programming back then. I think it had 1k or RAM.
Only ever really programmed in Fortran back in the day, haven't done anything like that for probably well over 30 years now.

2nd oldest I have a K6-3 400 running Window's ME in my garage. A whole 128 meg of Ram in that thing and an Intel AGP card. I think it has a 1.2 gig hard drive in it. Finding keyboards with the huge connector is the biggest issue these days. I found a NOS Dell unit a while back, the one with the "clicky keys". A real pleasure to use.

I have a Commodore C64 still in it's box somewhere too. And an Atari 512 ST.

[mallisarealperson]

Still using my brain, sometimes. That's 48 years old. Can take awhile to boot up in the morning.

Never been perfect since the y2k bug