My dad used to bring these back from the college computing department in the summer holiday.....a whole 4k of memory they had too!!!!

http://oldcomputers.net/pet2001.html

Quote from: Diesel on November 22, 2012, 20:45:24 PM
But can you read them Dave. 

Actually, none of the 8 computers in the house has a floppy drive anymore, so the whole box is nothing but a nostalgic paperweight. I've got the pics on one of my HDD, somewhere, but God only knows which one.

Check out this little baby, build in the late 1940's with a 100Hz CPU. It is now the oldest working computer in the world and none of that magnetic tape to worry about either (r tape loading error).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20395212

I remember having Commadore Pet's at school. I used to make them make a chirping noise, lock out the keyboard and print 'R TAPE LOADING ERROR' at the bottom of the screen. Thus making them sound and look like Spectrums.

I also used to lift up the top and run my pencil across the chips which made the machines crash and the screen go weird (fly back lines).

I find it quite interesting, and at the same time sad, that our cell phones now have more power and capacity than the first dozen computers we've ever owned - combined!

Here's a little bit of fun and before anyone says anything, no I don't remember all these gadgets, just two. 




Do you think that's anyone we know in the last picture, Snowy maybe. 

I remember the phone and the Vic20 (my step bro had one). None of the others.
I fixed a few microwaves but don't rem that model.

As for the pic, I've never owned a hat like that.

Just the Vic 20 and the Microwave which is bit like the one my Grandparents had.  Interesting 

That was rather amusing....and I'll vouch that isn't snowy 

I liked that model of Toaster, that has got to be the singular most dangerous domestic appliance ever created.  

I'm positive there must have been something more dangerous that that Diesel,  mean what are a few  burns and electric shocks between master and servant