I still remember the excitement when my sister brought home the first computer to live in our house. It was an Amstrad 464 with colour monitor and built-in tape-drive. What's more, my sister also bought a disk-drive peripheral! We were living in the future, and it would not be long before we would all have our own rocket-packs, and robots would be doing my homework for me...
*sigh*
I know not where that thing-of-beauty that created many an hour of "Elite" space-sim adventure now resides. I do, however, still retain a reminder of this once-mighty machine:
No, that's not a 3.5" disk. It's a 3" disk, a one of a number of 3" formats that only had brief momentum before being swept away by Sony's 3.5" format.
* Sigh * indeed.
ReplyDelete140kB capacity (or thereabouts), and I once had the Amstrad running for three days producing and saving an image of part of the Mandelbrot set. Those were the days.
Oh, and now I have the Blue Danube waltz going through my head.
* Double sigh *
I wonder if there's an iPhone version of Elite ...
There's an android version... :)
DeleteYou might find this interesting though: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1461411552/elite-dangerous
I did, indeed. (I went looking after posting my original comment. If there's one thing I need less than having Blue Danube going through my head as I reminisce about docking my ship it's getting distracted looking for more distractions!)
DeleteI used to love waiting ages for the screeching blips and squawks of the tape player to load something - those were the days - the days of not 4G but of 0.0000000036G :)
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