It's truly inspiring to see all of these machines in one place, it has to be said. Is there anything that particularly catched your eye? Have a shout in the comments, and thanks for watching. :)
Fantastic, my first visit and I was hoping there would be a video of the event, very well done. My modest display in the corner didnt make the cut though, never mind! (to Tim G's right) (Cosmac Elf, Karen Orton NIBL, Aitken SC/MP, Southern Cross Z80, etc)
@kim justice. The problem with game developers and programmers these day is they are spoilt with RAW POWER so they tend not to invent new ways to programme straight to the metal create new visual effects. I remember seeing Brian the lion on the Amiga where they said it couldn't be done and BOOM mode 7 like effects on the Amiga. No second prize imagine if they could have adapted that engine for Robocop 3 how smooth it would be. I just wish people would try to do the impossible maybe set themselves a limit for the speed of their console or pc an practice squeezing the most out of those specs. That way when they have RAW POWER they will be more poised to squeezing and pushing the boundaries.
@@PHILG2864 I have an (the?) RCA MS2000. I'm planning on bringing it to RCF next year. I'd be taking the train, so can't bring tons of stuff, but i'd happily share a desk with you if you have the space :)
I'm about 1-2 decades too young for most of these machines, but it's always lovely to see the "do it yourself" world of early computing. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
Great video and thanks for the shout out to my Breadboard Computer (BBC)! It was a really fun and interesting weekend with a great bunch of passionate and knowledgeable folks👍🏽
10:06 on the left you can just see space invaders running on a Microtan 65. I have a replica of this and it was made by Tangerine computers who went on to make the Oric 1. There was a whole article in an electronics magazine (electronics today international if I remember correctly) that covered the building of it plus a sound addon.
That space shuttle image printed with the plotter was used for demonstration at a technology exhibition too at our university when I was a kid more than 30 years ago. That was the time when my dad switched from drawing technical drawings by hand to drawing on computer (CAD).
My first introduction to computing was the teletype at my school which connected via an acoustic modem to the mainframe at Norwich City College. After school I joined the IT department at Norwich Union in 1979 where I worked on ICL and IBM mainframes. My first personal computer was a Nascom 2.
@@chrisholland5138 Well, I certainly didn’t pay a stupid eBay price for the Falcon030. The only things done to the Falcon are replacing the NVRAM/clock chip and replacing the 4MB SIMM on the memory board with a 16MB one, oh and a hard drive as the original had sticky bumper syndrome. This particular machine is a rare one which doesn’t need the system clock patch, it just works.
Tandy, selling the CoCo for the same price as the BBC Micro, when parents held the purse strings, schools were buying BBC Micros and the national broadcaster was supporting the BBC Micro... yeah, Atari almost got away with it with the 48k 800 and the XL range because it was already kind of established.
Always makes my day to see a KJ video uploaded. Just the right amount of document/personality. Looks a lovely place. Nice to see they named a computer after you. This was a joy to watch. Keep being awesome Kim ❤
Nice to see the exhibits, I was mainly a console user, the only computer I used was a PC. This was down to the computers I used in training schemes. I like the PC because of the utilities you can download.
Good to see you there. Remember, I live very close by, so whenever there's something going down there I'm usually around. Good to see you there and nice video!
There's some outlandishly obscure systems on display here. I'd not even heard of half of those before. The PDP-11 was the first computer manufactured in Ireland in 1970. The fact they're doing reproductions of them now is amazing. Want!
Good video, but would have been nice spending time on the Oric-1, the Dragon 32 and other computers that did make inroads into the UK market in the 80s
Didn't see it here, but remember in 82/83 Sinclair (I think) had a model available in the UK that had a cream case with blue rubber keys. Much like the Spectrum in design and it's native language was Forth.
Thanks for the great video, Kim! A small note: The MicroBee wasn't just for schools. There were home users, too. One of my best mates had a deluxe model, although admittedly a lot of his games were of the educational variety, e.g. "GeograBee". I also remember a platformer called "Ladder" and some text adventures typical of the time. Can't picture any shooters or driving titles, but it was so long ago...
Oh wow! This is incredible. I took my nieces and nephews to the manchester museum of industry and science few weeks ago. I was utterly disappointed that this wasn't what they got to experience. Thanks for the vid man
@@time4advancement244 Ohh yess yess. The museum is very good, I thought there would be more about science and not just industry. That's not the case. It's mainly about textile with very little about science thrown here and there. There is a paid section about the history of computers, I didn't visit it. I donated 25 gbp before knowing the part I cared about the most costs money to even be allowed to stand at the gate to see what's inside. Have I known, I would have saved my donation to enter the pc history section.
Hi Kim! Would you ever do a video on the Philips CD-i system from the 90's? I worked at Philips and wrote the Atlantis and RamRaid games for it - it's quite a quirky system with a lot of UK-based teams working on it - eg The &th Guest was written in Dorking and other games in Redhill
I wish i kept my Amstrad CPC 464 and Amiga 500 now. The only old computer i have these days is a Pentium 2 266 overclocked to 300 Mhz which i use to play games such as Command and Conquer and Blade Runner.
_"Well, it's another Kim video where I'm Outside."_ Sounds weirdly familiar. What part of the country is that again? :p Some of those printers still seem space age to me (the good late 20th century analogue kind of space age, mind you) especially compared to my horrible modern Canon printer, that gets confused and shits it's pants everytime I load paper into it. Some of those printers still seem space age to me (the good late 20th century analogue kind of space age, mind you) especially compared to my horrible modern Canon printer, that gets confused and shits it's pants everytime I load paper into it. And there's also something strangely nostalgic about the telephone networking segment and that *internet dot tv* keyboard, when the idea of the surfing the web was still novel and exciting. Cuz' it was like the telly, only not crap!
Yes, it has the new MFX expansion I got a couple of months ago. Upgrades the machine to 512K RAM and adds 80 column card compatible hardware and TMS emulation using an FPGA outputting to VGA. It also has a virtual floppy interface (SD card) and ethernet so that you can upload and download software/data to/from the virtual drives.
Deep digital archaeology seems to be finding out if some system can run Space Invaders, Pac Man, Doom, Etc. Is Crysis the next generations benchmark (for the LOLs) ?
You do wonder whether we'd all be living in a fallout 3 like world if they'd used a zx81 to power nuclear power stations. Especially if someone tried to plug the 16k memory in when it was switched on.
I remember seeing lots of adverts for the Sam Coupe in the pages of Your Sinclair back in the day, and really wanted one 😝 I’m not entirely sure why ‘cos I can’t remember what it could do 😖😂
Great stuff! I particularly enjoyed the kit machines you featured. We did an episode of ARG Presents about the NASCOM machines, and it really opened my eyes to the British kit computer scene of the late 70's forward. I enjoy the various homemade cases and self engineered peripherals. Great to see some footage of that stuff. Well done!
Always nice to see these old classic machines and in such good nick like they have just been removed from the box new. Thanks for the video Kim Justice.
