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.

I tried to start my Archimedes today, but like the economy, it just failed to do anything.

Does that mean MPs will soon start bull-sh!tting us about green shoots of recovery? (or was that the early nineties?)

Means in 6 years I'll actually be conceived and born

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.

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.

Nearly owned a C64 in '91 IIRC, though in a rare moment of clarity, my dad plumped for an Atari ST instead

Ahh the ST, I loved playing alien syndrome on that It was almost like being at the arcades!!

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