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| Author: | HeatherKay [ Thu Apr 07, 2011 11:03 am ] |
| Post subject: | It'll be big hair and shoulder pads next... |
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12997245 A Tory government, mass unemployment, savage cuts, crap pop music, naff telly, and the Commodore C64x. I was hoping not to have to live through the 1980s again, but it seems history is set on repeat spin cycle. |
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| Author: | paulzolo [ Thu Apr 07, 2011 12:08 pm ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: It'll be big hair and shoulder pads next... | |||||||||
I tried to start my Archimedes today, but like the economy, it just failed to do anything. |
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| Author: | Spreadie [ Thu Apr 07, 2011 2:31 pm ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: It'll be big hair and shoulder pads next... | |||||||||
Does that mean MPs will soon start bull-sh!tting us about green shoots of recovery? (or was that the early nineties?) |
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| Author: | finlay666 [ Thu Apr 07, 2011 3:39 pm ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: It'll be big hair and shoulder pads next... | |||||||||
Means in 6 years I'll actually be conceived and born 
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| Author: | Amnesia10 [ Fri Apr 08, 2011 9:06 am ] | ||||||||||||||||||
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I think that they were caught out during the eighties when the green shoots failed to appear, apart from a war that got the Tories out of trouble. Though greenshoots were a problem every time. It became a joke about who found the real signs of recovery when so much BS had been rolled out before. I loved the commodore 64, my first computer. |
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| Author: | paulzolo [ Fri Apr 08, 2011 9:26 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: It'll be big hair and shoulder pads next... |
When I was pondering a ZX81 replacement, the C64 was on the list - after closer look, I felt it wasn’t right for me. Looking at the BASIC listings in magazines showed put me off. We had BBC Micros at school, and most people I knew had either one of those or a Spectrum. I saved like mad and bought an Electron (a BBC was just too expensive at the time). I was Acorn based until 1998 when I bought a Mac. |
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| Author: | pcernie [ Fri Apr 08, 2011 1:22 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: It'll be big hair and shoulder pads next... |
Nearly owned a C64 in '91 IIRC, though in a rare moment of clarity, my dad plumped for an Atari ST instead 
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| Author: | bobbdobbs [ Fri Apr 08, 2011 1:27 pm ] | |||||||||
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Ahh the ST, I loved playing alien syndrome on that It was almost like being at the arcades!!
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| Author: | pcernie [ Fri Apr 08, 2011 1:34 pm ] | ||||||||||||||||||
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Being a complete n0ob (and child), I went in for all the rubbish movie games and whatever was hyped to high heaven at the time  Though I did get a load of public domain stuff and used to love ST Format
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