I can't remember if I have mentioned it on here before, but aside from working on my TKR, I am one of the Admins of a website called AmiBay (www.amibay.com) that is a forum dedicated to retro computers and the trading, upgrading and hacking of them. If any of you are into Commodore 64s, Spectrums, Amigas, BBCs or any retro computer or console, take a look at the site as we have masses of information and people trading items on their daily.
Bloody hell my dad brought a 64 in 1992 for Christmas best present ever! And before that an Atari which had big ker-chunk discs to put in!
My first 64 was way back in 1983... mine was the first edition in grey with dark keys, nicknamed the 'Breadbin'. Yours was probably the later 64C that was creamy coloured and had matching keys.
Used to have an a1200. Started out standard (much like my bikes) ended up with a 250mb internal HD, pcmcia port had a squirrel scsi controller with external 3.5inch 1gb HD and 2x CD drive. There was an external floppy drive, good old fashioned dot matrix printer. Trapdoor slot had a PowerPC 603 @ 175mhz as well as 68040 @ 25mhz and 64mb ram. Attached to that was a blizzardvision GFX card. There was an external 336 modem also. The whole computer ended up sitting on risers with a small fan glued to the gfx card and extra heatsink on the 040 and ppc chip. It was fed off a heavily mutilated pc power supply and many plugs There was usually an a500 connected via serial cable for 2 player stunt car racer Sadly it got parted out and sold off years ago.All that was left was the a1200 nd internal hard drive. It was stored in my bros roofspace for a few years and when he got it back down the floppy drive ws a bit iffy and most of the diska had read errors. I had a c64 at one stage from a car boot sale, it came with the manuals and tape drive and I used it to learn basic.
Started on a zx basic,zx spectrum 16,last personal was a zx 48 k - back in the 80's, My last personal computer......
