10/10/84
I'm not that sure how I remember the date (although with it being 10/10 its easy)
Anyway it was that date I brought my first Speccy, (obviously rubber keyed model) , 48K, from what was the co-op. Was ?129.99 from what I remember.
Complete with the bundled Sinclair games (Chequered Flag / Make A Chip / Survival / Chess / Horace Goes Skiing) , and one more but I forget which one :-?
Anyway its 25 years today :) :) :)
Anyway it was that date I brought my first Speccy, (obviously rubber keyed model) , 48K, from what was the co-op. Was ?129.99 from what I remember.
Complete with the bundled Sinclair games (Chequered Flag / Make A Chip / Survival / Chess / Horace Goes Skiing) , and one more but I forget which one :-?
Anyway its 25 years today :) :) :)
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Somewhere between 85 and 87, but probably 86? I don't remember if I got it when I was 6 or 7? and not long before either my 7th or 8th b'day. So I hazard a guess at October 1985 or 86' sometime?
Bugger now my heads in knots
:lol:
Where's a can :D
when you have kids make sure you have a properly documented childhood photo album. :p
We had that pack too but I got mine in Crimbo 83. However, within nine months it carked it. So my mum took it back to the shop. They said "they done make that model any more" and gave us an upgrade to the ZX48K+.
I must say, for a kid the ZX48K+ was much more usable and the Rubber one.
Well happy birthday Spiders Spectrum. :D
Why so I can show their future friends and partners baby photos of them with no clothes on :evil:
My ma took it upon herself to show any girl that set foot near my house photos of me with my knob out, and my big luminous white afro :mad:
She thought it was hilarious, wheras I did not!
delete her from your face book page then!!
I don't have facebook, it's for saddos ;)
i always figured you to be a much older slob than me. :D i did used to have snow white hair as well.
Wos is way cooler than facebook, and you know this ;)
I only really remember the date as its easy. I do remember it did not work (tape) but we only had a really old crummy tape player, borrowing another one (a couple of days later that was known to work with speccys) did not help but we got the speccy swapped for another and all was well :)
My other memory a few months after that was my grandfather went and brought me JSW , when I opened the cassette box (this was from one of the shops that used to have just the cassette box and you took it to the counter and they gave you the tape) , the tape was present but the codecard was not :(
He had to go back and complain, it turned out they took that out as well and the dummy assistant had not given him it...
I've still got the 1st Speccy that Dad bought. Doesn't work though! :D
Especially the sticker underneath...
JMK is Scottish.
EDIT - and he has my Fuller Box! And ask him about stinking the Software Creation offices out by microwaving fish!
Unfortunately not no, it died in the late 80's. I remember having it for a while after that but I assume it got binned :(
Although I did acquire an empty rubber keyed case and a broken 48+ (keyboard membrane dead) in the early 90's so put the + board into the rubber key case (and I still have this, still working fine) :)