New OLD 6128 Arrived

dcdrac · 17:46, 04 April 13

And it worked straight off bought a lump to my throat

Bryce · 19:47, 04 April 13

They always do

Bryce.

dcdrac · 19:50, 04 April 13

Going to replace my now defunct 464 too.
Got a BBC B coming too, I do not think I will bother getting another Spectrum never thought much of them.

Bryce · 20:33, 04 April 13

Despite the beatings that the Spectrum tends to get on a CPC forum, that suffered the dreaded "Speccy Ports" for many years, they are actually a pretty cool machine, that managed a lot with very little. I'm proud of my Speccy machines, without them Alan may never have been motivated enough to create the CPC.

Bryce.

dcdrac · 20:35, 04 April 13

That is a fair comment but I preferred my CPCs, Beeb and C64...

Bryce · 20:37, 04 April 13

I'm proud of my Acorns, Beebs, Commodores, Ataris, MSXs and Amigas too

Bryce.

dcdrac · 20:54, 04 April 13

Friend of mine at work had an Enterprise fully working he gave away last year, saw one for sale for £499 on Ebay today

Bryce · 20:56, 04 April 13

On offer for 499, but I doubt anyone would buy it for that. They definitely don't go for that price.

Bryce.

Gryzor · 18:40, 06 April 13

No, €300 probably.

I'm proud of my NC200

MacDeath · 06:48, 07 April 13

(oops sorry, I double posted because of a wrong manipulation)

MacDeath · 06:51, 07 April 13

Speccies are great machine provided you don't need extra display (more than 256x192) or extra colours without clashes.
But with a text interface, colourclashes are not a problem.

I mean, the serial port (MIDI ? RS232?) is nice, and you have more CPU and more RAM because hraphics don't take that much, and the AY is faster than CPC's one.
Good machine for AY music.

Enterprise128 is a fine machine as well, can get Speccy and CPC prots so easily. Not bad for a large colourfull arcade style Joystick board.

dcdrac · 10:18, 07 April 13

The first three computers I had were Commodore PET, Apple 2 and a ZX80, then a ZX81 Spectrum and a BBC B, Macintosh got the C64 and the CPC464 at the same time and for some bizarre reason developed a real affection for the CPCs I was going to get a 664 but they stopped making them and got a 6128 instead.

Gryzor · 11:34, 07 April 13

"bizarre reason"? It being the best damn machine around in 1984 isn't bizarre

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