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James Fidell wrote: > Robin Cornelius wrote: > > >> This thread has reminded me of the speccy +3, bbc micro(s) and acorn >> electron I have in various storage. Including magazines, tapes, discs >> etc, that i *have* to get rid of. >> >> Looking at ebay they are going for next to nothing/not selling so if >> there is anyone on the list who wants a pile of vintage computing give >> me a shout and I will tell you what I have got. >> > > OTSOW I've been occasionally looking out for an Atom and an Apple IIe. > The former seem pretty rare now. The latter was probably the first > computer I ever used. > > James > > I also had an Atom and loved it's Basic interpreter. But I also had that little card Acorn produced before the Atom (it's so long ago I've forgotten what it was called). It came with a little hexidecimal keyboard mounted on the card. I used to run the thing on a homebuilt PSU with crocodile cables. No way of saving programmes but I still spent many a happy hour entering code into it's 256 Bytes of memory and playing Duck Shoot. Keith -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html