Funky Nosejob Posted December 11, 2020 Share Posted December 11, 2020 1 minute ago, Busta Nut said: I mind my Amiga 500 + having a 1mb hard drive You were lucky! I still remember the mixture of delight and abhorrence I felt when I pointed at the ZX81 computer in the National Museum of Scotland and informed my children, “That’s the first computer I owned”. 1Kb of RAM, with a 16Kb expansion block that would crash the computer if it wobbled. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted December 11, 2020 Share Posted December 11, 2020 27 minutes ago, Funky Nosejob said: You were lucky! I still remember the mixture of delight and abhorrence I felt when I pointed at the ZX81 computer in the National Museum of Scotland and informed my children, “That’s the first computer I owned”. 1Kb of RAM, with a 16Kb expansion block that would crash the computer if it wobbled. I bought one of those only a few months before the Spectrum came out. That had 16K and 48K versions and I eventually bought one.. I remember one of the Speccy magazines printed an article stating that the interior of both versions was the same, but the 16K had part of its memory disabled. However this RAM could be unlocked by typing in a fairly lengthy machine code program. I already had a 48K but was bored and curious to see what the program would actually do (I didn't believe the disabled memory thing) so typed it in, and the screen displayed 'APRIL FOOL!' 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MSU Posted December 11, 2020 Share Posted December 11, 2020 (edited) 49 minutes ago, GordonD said: I bought one of those only a few months before the Spectrum came out. That had 16K and 48K versions and I eventually bought one.. I remember one of the Speccy magazines printed an article stating that the interior of both versions was the same, but the 16K had part of its memory disabled. However this RAM could be unlocked by typing in a fairly lengthy machine code program. I already had a 48K but was bored and curious to see what the program would actually do (I didn't believe the disabled memory thing) so typed it in, and the screen displayed 'APRIL FOOL!' I'm amazed you got any magazine program code to work. ETA -- I had a 16k Spectrum and eventually got a 32k expansion pack that was a little bit more stable than the ZX81 version. I was explaining this to my co-workers the other day, who have never heard of a ZX Spectrum, and I mentioned that the expansion pack that contained 32k was around the size of a cassette while I currently have a Micro SSD card in my camera that's 64GB and the size of my thumbnail. This sparked a bit of a race to calculate how big the Speccy expansion pack would've been had it housed 64GB of extra memory. Turns out it would've been just over three acres. Can't imagine how unstable that would've been plugged into the back of a 16k Spectrum. Edited December 11, 2020 by MSU 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venti Posted December 11, 2020 Share Posted December 11, 2020 'Prometheus' drone IRL https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55191623 If they find Xenomorphs I hope they nope out of there. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nkomo-A-Gogo Posted December 11, 2020 Share Posted December 11, 2020 my son singing silent night. he'd love to see a few views or likes if you all don't mind. It would make his Christmas. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigmouth Strikes Again Posted December 11, 2020 Share Posted December 11, 2020 38 minutes ago, Nkomo-A-Gogo said: my son singing silent night. he'd love to see a few views or likes if you all don't mind. It would make his Christmas. Excellent version. Fired him off a green dot. Thank you. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
101 Posted December 11, 2020 Share Posted December 11, 2020 1 hour ago, Nkomo-A-Gogo said: my son singing silent night. he'd love to see a few views or likes if you all don't mind. It would make his Christmas. Nice one! Well done. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJ2 Posted December 11, 2020 Share Posted December 11, 2020 John McGlynn 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicken Wing Posted December 11, 2020 Share Posted December 11, 2020 John McGlynn Fashion icon. Who doesn't sport a shirt and tie/tracksuit combination? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJ2 Posted December 11, 2020 Share Posted December 11, 2020 Fashion icon. Who doesn't sport a shirt and tie/tracksuit combination?Two hats? Of course. Shirt, tie and tracksuit? Obviously. John McGlynn is a vibe and I am here for it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shandon Par Posted December 11, 2020 Share Posted December 11, 2020 36 minutes ago, NJ2 said: John McGlynn More hats than points tonight. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted December 11, 2020 Share Posted December 11, 2020 38 minutes ago, NJ2 said: John McGlynn If you want to get ahead, get a hat! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJ2 Posted December 11, 2020 Share Posted December 11, 2020 More hats than points tonight. Quiet in second place, please. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derry Alli Posted December 12, 2020 Share Posted December 12, 2020 Swansea/Cardiff, ManUtd/ManCity, Joshua/Pulev, United/Rangers & PSG/Lyon. Decent weekend of sport on TV. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted December 12, 2020 Share Posted December 12, 2020 19 hours ago, Szamo's_Ammo said: Julia Hartley-Brewer's Wikipedia page: Is all of this true? Is she really a republican? "Staunch" and "Republican" are normally on opposite sides IIRC 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJ2 Posted December 12, 2020 Share Posted December 12, 2020 Swansea/Cardiff, ManUtd/ManCity, Joshua/Pulev, United/Rangers & PSG/Lyon. Decent weekend of sport on TV. Never realised Swansea v Cardiff was today, thank you. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RH33 Posted December 12, 2020 Share Posted December 12, 2020 On 11/12/2020 at 01:27, Mr. Alli said: Idiot left my parcel in the bin and no card through door! Useless c**t 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moomintroll Posted December 12, 2020 Share Posted December 12, 2020 54 minutes ago, Tynierose said: The continuing introduction to top 80s films for the kids continued last night. This time it was Big Trouble in Little China. Hadn't seen it for 20 odd years, it was so bad it was really good. You have to introduce them to UHF, starring Weird Al Yankovic. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin.Hood Posted December 12, 2020 Share Posted December 12, 2020 The littlest hobo theme tune is banging 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted December 12, 2020 Share Posted December 12, 2020 I considered doing a poll of P&B's favourite TV themes. Littlest Hobo would be up there, I'd think. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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