JPSUPERHOOPER

CHILD OF THE 70 s and 80 s:

There could be thousands of observations on this one!

You did the top toggle of your coat up around your neck without having your arms in the sleeves, and knew you looked like a super-hero.

Parachuting Action man was your favourite toy.

"Ca-vey Wa-vey!" means anything to you.

You had more than 10 sweets in a 10p mix-up.

You remember when Betamax was at the cutting edge of technology.

You could have got away with it if it hadn't been for those meddling kids.

(Girls) You owned a pair of Pixie Boots, generally worn with leg warmers.

Your best mate had a soda stream at home and you were jealous

You owned a pair of Farrahs and thought you were the dogs!

The zx spectrum and the annoying loading


Add some of your own

PaddyHaHa

you could go on and on and on , but a few of mine are captain cave man, grange hill , magpie. The clangers now what about them and could you see them teaming up with the wommbles, that could be funny.

wardy2

You danced round your handbag and laughed a girls in white stilettos

Racht70

I remember making perfume from flower petals...and making my mum wear it, even if it did smell like pee!

Vim Fuego

A wind-up Evil Knievel, endless games of Crossfire and a wobbly RAM pack sum it up for me.

redlion

Spanish gold
Cop Cops
Cola Cubes
Bazooka Joe
And many many more such yummy treats

Nev

JackTheLad

That would be a ZX81 16K ram pack! I well remember typing in thousands of lines of BASIC from magazines to play a game, and then the RAM pack moved a bit and fiiiizzzzzzt. Start again.:curse:

redlion

You was obviously dead posh, i only had a commadore vic20 now thats crap!

Nev

Racht70

Spangles......and them pop-push necklaces

Vim Fuego

My dad made a wooden surround that kept the thing in place, it weighed about 10 times more than the ZX81

My mate had a Dragon 32, he was a SERIOUS outcast ... probably contemplating mass killings in a mall right now

JackTheLad

The Vic20 was colour and had sound! The ZX81 was black and white, I had to wait 3 years before I got a colour Zx Spectrum.

I had a friend with a Dragon 32 as well, I seem to remember the running joke with that was everything on the screen was green,
Any game that came out for the Spectrum in colour, like Manic Miner, we always asked him what colour it was on the Dragon, and it was always green,

Vim Fuego

The '32 was real pants.

I had an Electron after my ZX81 'cos we couldn't afford a BBC ... I see that there is a bit of a BBC Micro celebration going on, very good too, that had some cracking games AND was a good introduction to real coding.

Olias

I had a vertibird - anyone remember them?

JackTheLad

The Electron was the Celeron of its day.

The history of the BBC Micro is actually quite interesting. The BBC had the guts to specify a design for a PC and to specify its own version of BASIC, because they didn't think the current versions of BASIC taught correct programming, just so they could do a series on Computers

http://bbc.nvg.org/history.php3

I never had one, but used them extensively in school. Their BASIC was better than Sinclair, as it had proper subroutines, and parameter passing.

JTL

Hutch

I had a BBC Model B - amazing computer - loved it. Funnily enough just a couple of days ago I downloaded a BBC Model B emulator. Played Planetoid, Elite and Repton - gave a couple of Level 9 adventures ago ... and then deleted it. Should have kept that memory in the nostalgia department ...