Re: OT: For computer nerds of the 80s

"Blue Heeler" <woof@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> Atheist Chaplain wrote:
>
>>
>> I still have my first Microbee :-)
>> it started out life with a tape drive and I eventualy bought 720 and
>> 144 floppy drives for it. oh and it had a whopping 16k of ram :-) I
>> even made an EPROM writer for it complete with my own UV light
>> cabinet to erase them. I still have a box full of old floppies full
>> of games (any one remember Colossal Cave) and apps (Word Star anyone)
>> ahhh CP/M.............
>
> I have fond memories of the Microbee too.
>
> Having gone the ZX81, Exidy Sorceror route I built myself a S100 system
> and poured more money than I care to think about into things like
> floppy disk controller cards and 8, 2k memory cards.
>
> I built my first Microbee as a kit, I thought it would make a really
> neat serial console to the S100 box. Of course the Microbee's
> capabilities rapidly outstripped the S100's. I was once the very proud
> owner of "Eric the 1/2 meg Bee" - a microbee with 256k of memory
> configured as a ram disk. Wordstar and Visicalc ran like a scalded cat
> when run entirely from memory.
>
> Round about then I bought two things that stick in my memory - a
> Osborne 01 ****table computer and a Kawasaki GPZ1100. They cost the same
> to within a couple of bucks - the Kwaka being the more durable......
>
>
>
> -- 
>

I have a friend who used to collect Microbee's he once had a complete 
collection of every model that they ever made, including the #03 original 
prototype and a prototype of the very last one they never got to market,
it 
was supposed to be an Amiga killer :-)

I'll chase him up and see if he still has them, I might even convince him
to 
put a web page together if he already hasn't :-)

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Don Hirschberg