A Commodore advert pushing the VIC-20 not just as a great starter computer, but as the "best home computer in the world"!
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Curry's "You Can't Buy Cheaper" campaign, from 1984, I gather. Good old days!
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"The cat that catches colour," "the Lynx effect"... the list goes on and on! How many of you remember Camputers Lynx?
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Very nice:
“The Home Computer War”, Christopher Felix McDonald (technicshistory.com/2026/03/06/t...).
Via HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4726...
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Often forgotten, but nevertheless a part of Commodore's computer lineup and one of the platforms that did get its own version of the original Football Manager game - the Plus/4!
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Today marks the 45th anniversary of the ZX81, one of the most successful home computers of the early 1980's in the UK!
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@retrocollective.co.uk's spectacular series w/ Professor Steve Furber CBE, instrumental in hardware designs of #Acorn & #BBCMicro #microcomputers and the #ARM architecture.
1st hr: #retrocomputing
2nd hr: Building a brain with ARM.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2yD...
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An image that takes me back to simpler times, and the early days of Football Manager! Do you remember the "Computer know-how" sections at WHSmith?
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A rare ad of the CPC 664. What was supposed to have been the next generation of Amstrad computers was replaced within a year by the CPC 6128.
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A brilliant piece of advertising by Sinclair, promoting the ZX81 as the best entry-level computer for a growing market of first-time users!
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A real pearl among home computers - the Dragon 64 hailing from Wales 🐉
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The "Asda price" on 80's computers and games? Now that's a throwback 😁
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The ZX Spectrum set, complete with the ZX Printer and ZX Microdrive!
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Apple was one of the earliest brands to boast of a personal computer lineup - the MacIntosh family.
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Before producing best-selling computers such as the C64 and Amiga, Commodore first found worldwide commercial success with the VIC-20 🙂
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1981 was the year of the IBM PC, a computer that helped shape and standardise both the concept and features of a personal computer.
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Today marks the 46th birthday of the ZX80!
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A real blast from the past - the Tatung Einstein! Produced in Taiwan, designed and assembled in England. How many of you got to interact with this machine?
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The precursor to the BBC Micro - the Acorn Atom, one of the earliest and most inexpensive home computers of its time 🙂
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The Amiga 1000 was a huge stepping-stone in the evolution of personal computers!
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Now here's a rare one! The CPC 664 was only produced for six months before Amstrad introduced CPC 6128.
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You know how Football Manager was developed in the Video Genie? Well, the guys in Hong Kong went a step further in 1982 and created the Colour Genie!
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One of the 128K ZX Spectrum models produced by Amstrad after they purchased the Sinclair brand in 1986 🙂
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How many of you remember the Apricot line of computers?
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Good memories from the Amstrad CPC 464! 🙂
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There were several evolutions of the Addictive Games logo. This ZX81 version had one of them
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A blast from the past! Who here remembers the Torch computers?
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The upgrade to the original "Beeb" 🙂
Did you ever get a chance to use the BBC Master?
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Most people with Commodore computers experienced Football Manager on the C64, but there was another version made for the C16 and Plus 4! 🙂
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It was worth every penny! 😉
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