Hardware & Technical Micro Machines

starman

starman
Its was a class war. You were judged by what micro you owned.

You could take aspects of all those micro and really have something.

Its what we have now in the Mobile sector. Nothing has changed. We all now why.
 

Avago Earo

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starman said:
Its was a class war. You were judged by what micro you owned.

You could take aspects of all those micro and really have something.

Its what we have now in the Mobile sector. Nothing has changed. We all now why.
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Interesting. My Dad bought a BBC Model B in the hope that my sister and I would learn programming/coding (we learned a bit but mainly played games), because he worked with computers himself and saw where things were going. The thing is, that we had a rusty old Austin Allegro outside our house as that's all we could afford after buying the computer, so I'm not sure it's a class thing every time. But yeah, the beebs were so expensive.

I regarded the BBC, Spectrum, Vic 20 and C64 as uniquely different and uniquely capable. Below a certain income, they were all at a frightening price.

Until people give other people the same respect and airtime whatever their accent; then there is a Class War.
 

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Flimley said:
Very apt indeed. Made me smile
...I had the commodore.
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My first job when I left school, I saved up for a Commodore 64 because of the SID chip (wanted to do some John Foxx/Gary Numan type stuff). But then I went to college, got a battered Les Paul copy, joined a Punk band and discovered women. Or did women discover me? either way it was all jolly japes phnar phnar.
 

Flimley

Flimley
You know Avago, I began with a ZX-81 learnt basic, wrote some programs, and copied some others from magazines..(.they were always full of syntax errors !). Then somehow convinced parents into buying me a VIC 20. That had more sound options and colour, ....great days. After that came the ZX spectrum with a custom 128k internal memory. Then girls. Then forgot all about everything. Sigh.
....I went for a telecastor ;)
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Flimley said:
You know Avago, I began with a ZX-81 learnt basic, wrote some programs, and copied some others from magazines..(.they were always full of syntax errors !). Then somehow convinced parents into buying me a VIC 20. That had more sound options and colour, ....great days. After that came the ZX spectrum with a custom 128k internal memory. Then girls. Then forgot all about everything. Sigh.
....I went for a telecastor ;)
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Nice one Flimley.

The first guitar I had a go on was a telecaster my school mate built from bits that his Dad brought home from work. He based it on Hank Marvin's axe. I've got a couple of Strat copies that I'll eventually make into one guitar, but they're not my thing. It's stupid, I know, image and that; but you know what shirts you like. I like Telecasters and Broadcasters though. And Gibson, well, they're finished, so if I want a Les Paul/SG I'll probably look at Ibanez. My old Les Paul needs fret work so I'm rocking a really cheap Epi SG Special. Does the job when it's in the hands of a genius! ;)

I struggled with maths. When I looked at reams of paper with numbers on it I'd come out in a sweat. I remember my Dad trying so hard to get me to understand. Some of it stuck. I managed to get my head around hexadecimal for assembly language by drawing every number and letter into columns and carrying them over, and wrote some really simple tunes on the BBC using Envelopes. I typed out lots of games from magazines. The first one was 'DeathWatch' from the BBC Micro User (or Micro user, it changed names), and yeah SYNTAX ERROR, was a familiar thing to see and an invitation to check through every line for a spelling mistake.

Happy New Year btw.
 
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Flimley

Flimley
I remember cursing syntax errors as much as I rant about windows 10 now!.....and that a lot !
I enjoyed the Telecaster for its raw dirty sound and found it a joy to play. My other main guitar is a twelve string acoustic Gibson. Now that is a nice bit of kit ! ...One day it just fell onto its front (in horrifying slow motion) aaaaaand broke it’s neck at the nut. Complete despair and disbelief. Why me god...WHY ?!?! I done everything right ! Luckily a good friend of mine was making gutairs at the time, so made me a new neck, and all was good again !

Flimley
 
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Flimley said:
I remember cursing syntax errors as much as I rant about windows 10 now!.....and that a lot !
I enjoyed the Telecaster for its raw dirty sound and found it a joy to play. My other main guitar is a twelve string acoustic Gibson. Now that is a nice bit of kit ! ...One day it just fell onto its front (in horrifying slow motion) aaaaaand broke it’s neck at the nut. Complete despair and disbelief. Why me god...WHY ?!?! I done everything right ! Luckily a good friend of mine was making gutairs at the time, so made me a new neck, and all was good again !

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Yeah I know what you mean about the dirty sound. I think it's the single coils rather than humbuckers kind of cancelling noise out (if you know what I mean). There's too much snobbery around guitars imo. Les Pauls and Tele's are more suitable to particular styles, but nothing by any make or pick up configuration, tone etc etc will compete with a heart felt sweaty performance of a good song. I had to borrow a strat when I was in my old Punk band. Did it sound any better or worse in a booze filled pub? I'll let you answer that. Been thinking about getting a tele/broadcaster for a while I pick things up from skips (dumpsters). Not every day, just sometimes I see something that I can mend. Doubt I'll find a Rickenbacker but you never know.

Twelve string Gibson acoustic sounds beautiful (I know the recent Gibson's have problems) I can imagine your heart sinking when the neck went. I boroed a twelve string when I was about 17/18 to go busking. Ended up playing 'That's Entertainment' by The Jam for about six hours. Made enough to go out with though.
 
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