Rack your brains and go back 25+ years

[BritishGeek]

I remember when I was a teen and into the Commodore 64 seeing a case mode for the bread bin C64.

It took the keyboard and put it in a case like the C128D keyboard. The C64 mobo and 5.25" floppy drive were put in a case like the C128D just bigger.

The keyboard was then hooked up with keyboard wire to the main case.

This was before the C128D came out though. I remember is was the same beige color as the bread bin.

This would have been either in The Netherlands or the U.K.

I have searched the new but cannot find it anywhere.

:help:

Anybody remember this mod?

 

[MZ3540]

Compucase 64d

 

[morcar]

1983 I had my ZX Spectrum 48k and i have to say it was the best day of my life. I remember getting one for Christmas with Horace goes skiing, Survival, scrabble, chequered flag and make a chip.

Of course as i knew I was getting it I got a few games from my friends on a c90 tape all ready.

Then when the shops reopened I bought loads of magazines to type in the listing. All that time I spent with the ZX81 before paid off I have to say.

If you say to this to most people younger than me now they laugh and would never do what my generation did like typing in games from a massive listing, but I would never change a thing.

 

[moggsie]

Xmas 86 was when my old man actually spent some money on his kids and bought us a second hand C64... Ohhh what a memory. It was Xmas pack and came with a tape called 'The Very First' and side A had a Xmas show with about 5 or 6 Carrols with animation.

Happy days.

 

[BritishGeek]

that's it, awesome ty

Compucase 64d

 

[z3spacial]

I got my 1st computer - a ZX81 for Xmas 1981 - But it was delivered in September and I knew where my parents hid it I ordered a 1K game tape and played a game called "React" I loved it. The 16K Ram Pk came in March, but then Sinclair launched the Speccy in July 82

In November (the 5th!) my 16K Speccy arrived (bought with my paper round money) and BugByte's "Spectral Invaders" was the first game I played. Much later I had good memory's of an Imagine game called "Jumping Jack" - I still play it now and it's still funny.....

I also remember a game called Timegate by QuickSilva which had me and my mate humming the Buck Rogers in the 25th Century Theme Tune - Wot geeks we were (and still are! - I say proudly )

Those were the days.....(sob!)

 

[AppleIIFan]

First computer, age 6, The Macintosh SE with 2.5MB RAM and a whole 20MB HDD, my parents bought it brand new for their newspaper.. Ive been on Macs ever since.

 

[mike_cc]

my digital age

my digital age

Aged 16, we (my siblings and I) were bought a second hand 128k +2. It was magical to us so we used to dance around it chanting "flipping well load, damnit!" All my mates had Amigas and Ataris but I didn't care.

Still remember the happy memories of finally completing Rescue! and playing Dizzy and Trap Door. Rocky Horror Picture Show was great too. It came with about 100 boxed games, so I was never bored. Tried programming on it but with my attention span that was never going to last.

 

[BritishGeek]

First games I remember playing was Blue Max, Airwolf and Snoopy. I loved those games !! At that time I was still saving for my C64 so it was over at my friends house.

Krakout is what we were really hooked at though, that game was so addictive as was Seven Cities of Gold.

Their Commodore was hooked up in their parents bedroom and I remember four of us huddled round the TV up there waiting for our turn to play.

Somebody already mentioned that it was different back then and I must agree. Back then they didn't have all the technology to make games like they do now and the hardware was very restrictive so that resulted in better games with a better storyline of game play in my opinion.

I do not see kids playing like we used to, the demo scene is hardly existent now and it's just different.

I think we were very lucky to have experienced it back then.

I don't know about you guys/gals but when I sit behind my Commodore I very much end up with that same feeling I had 25 years ago.

 

[D.B]

For those unsure:

http://www.richardlagendijk.nl/cip/computer/item/compucase_64d/en