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:
