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Andy Dodds Posts: 539 Joined: 17th May 2012 Location: England | quotePosted at 16:47 on 15th February 2014 Hiya Rusty it is computer related yes and John was soooo close with acorn(which was the nutty rival) |
rustyruth Posts: 18773 Joined: 23rd Oct 2012 Location: England | quotePosted at 17:44 on 15th February 2014 The only other rival to Acorn I can think of in the UK in the early 80's would be Sinclair and the ZX Spectrum. |
| Andy Dodds Posts: 539 Joined: 17th May 2012 Location: England | quotePosted at 19:35 on 15th February 2014 make correct wrong model Rusty from what I can remember it was the model before the spectrum with the rubber keys Edited by: andy dodds at:15th February 2014 19:36 |
| rustyruth Posts: 18773 Joined: 23rd Oct 2012 Location: England | quotePosted at 19:41 on 15th February 2014 No if you're right John it's yours, you have the watch connection too which I was clueless about. Good luck, let's wait and see  |
| rustyruth Posts: 18773 Joined: 23rd Oct 2012 Location: England | quotePosted at 20:03 on 15th February 2014 See you later |
| Andy Dodds Posts: 539 Joined: 17th May 2012 Location: England | quotePosted at 20:13 on 15th February 2014 well worked out between you it was the zx81 which to my knowledge was my first computer after an atari games console and yes John it was made by Timex Oh the pain of programming a game to realise you missed a line out well done |
| rustyruth Posts: 18773 Joined: 23rd Oct 2012 Location: England | quotePosted at 20:21 on 15th February 2014 I'm impressed that you can programme a game Andy Well done John |
| Andy Dodds Posts: 539 Joined: 17th May 2012 Location: England | quotePosted at 20:29 on 15th February 2014 Had to copy it out of a book Rusty from what I can remember My god Tandy I forgot about that shop I had 1 of them make your own radios from there lol And a free frisbee(that was a random thought) Edited by: andy dodds at:15th February 2014 20:31 |
| Andy Dodds Posts: 539 Joined: 17th May 2012 Location: England | quotePosted at 09:04 on 17th February 2014 John this wouldn't be 1 of the reservoirs either ladybower or derwent would it and the sacrifice being 2 villages lost under them so the dambusters could practice their bomb runs
After reading the question properly I'll say Ladybower reservoir (the other 2 Howden and Derwent must have already been there) The Lancaster did a flypast of the dams last may to commemorate the 70 yrs of dambusters Edited by: andy dodds at:17th February 2014 09:20 |
| rustyruth Posts: 18773 Joined: 23rd Oct 2012 Location: England | quotePosted at 12:43 on 17th February 2014 I think you've got this Andy, Derwent and I think Ashopton were the villages that were lost. |
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