Comment on Cost of a 128KB computer with floppies in 1985

• IndiBrony@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  Don’t mind me. Just showing off the Sinclair ZX Spectrum bag I got a couple of weeks ago. I’m nostalgic for 5 minute loading screens that could trigger an epileptic fit!

  The 80s were a different time.

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  • peanutyam@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Oh that’s amazing!

    The 80’s were certainly a different time. Especially when only allowed to access a computer at school for a few minutes in the day (Apple IIe) so all of us could “have a go at the computer in the library”!

    I would never have imagined as a kid what it was going to be like today with smartphones and the internet everywhere….

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    • BrownianMotion@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You were lucky! We only have BBC’s in our computer room.

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      • zerbey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        “Only had BBCs”. The best 8-bit computer of their generation? ONLY had a BBC? You have any idea how lucky we were growing up with those amazing machines in the 80s-90s? I owe my whole career to the BBC.

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    • Malfeasant@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I guess I went to a well funded public school… In 1984-5 we had a whole bunch of apple ][s so we had an hour or so per week of programming in basic- I had a commodore 64 at home so I could do the classwork in the first 5-10 minutes, then spend the rest of the time playing with it to see what it could do…

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  • zerbey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Shut up and take my money!

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