It is Sunday morning, and I wake with anticipation after a restless night's sleep. Every Sunday, I prepare my cup of tea and two thick slices of Tip Top bread generously smeared with clover honey. My iMac awakens from sleep mode, illuminating the room and ready to present its content from halfway around the world. I fluff my pillow on the old lounge chair, as my trusty office chair met its demise when one of the wheels broke free. I wash down my half-chewed toast with piping hot English tea, preparing myself for Retro Recipes and the Fractic family to fill the screen. My Amiga 4000, now wired to the network, valiantly attempts to display some of the stream content. With the toast eaten and the tea finished-some of which unfortunately spilled on the keyboard-27 minutes and 9 seconds have flown by, leaving me with the best feelings of the 1980s bubbling up like one of my mum's finest stews. This great channel and its content let me relive the best parts of the 1980s without enduring the less pleasant aspects, like school dental clinics. Thank you, guys-you are the best!
14:00 - The Public library in my hometown used to play children's audiobooks after hours when you called their number, but if you called while someone was listening to a story, you'd get a busy signal and have to wait until the story was finished. I spent so much time calling that number back when I was a kid in the 80's and early 90's. Good times.
The caption: "The family bonding over the Atari 8 bit". -To me, that is the one thing. Also that re-imagined Duck Hunt gun: Brilliant. Thanks for lining the news up.
Yet another great episode, I always look forward to the Retro Show every month :)... I'm very happy I managed to get my 48k rubber key specy working today by working out which ram chip was "buggered :)"... happy weekend y'all :).
Did you know that someone made an FPGA drop-in ULA replacement for the Acorn Electron? It's made by Mogwaay and is called the JamSoftElectronULA. So finally, broken Electrons can be saved. Also, there's a PCB on the way called the Elk, which will let you create an Electron from all new parts.
Considering everything, if one day Jack black shows up on the show, I am not going to be surprised. But its gonna be awesome! And just as importantly I now have the hall and oats line, in case of emergecny! Sweeeeeet
Funny they're not going for the fancy electric ones with spheres, daisies and erasers. That said, an old PC or Apple II would do it, even a 486, provided you don't connect it. 😁
My memory begins in 1983 when I was three. I distinctly recall seeing the computer my father bought for our house one day and a typewriter the following day when I got to the building where I attended preschool. Subsequently, my dad got a printer, and that appeared to add the missing ingredient from the typewriter to the computer. That was before I learned how a printer could print more than only text. In the intervening 40 years, I have figured out that the typewriter is only one device that I’m too young to have used. The other three are the rotary phone, the reel-to-reel tape recorder and the 8-track tape player.
Back in high school and college I had a daisy wheel typewriter. Can't recall, but I think it was a Brother. It had an option to plug in a serial interface, and become a printer. My parents threw it out, but it would've been cool to track down the serial interface and to have used it as a printer.
This was the bright spot of my day so thank you, man if they had that gun for duck hunt i'd still be playing it now. An did i see a C64 using a C16 tape deck, first thing i seen in that photo as i did the same back in the day. So love this show and yes i have 'here comes the sun' stuck in my head now, you guys have a great weekend and take care and am so so looking forward to the next one 🙂🙂
Darn I missed The Retro Show live. I will be here watching. I bet there a ton of dad jokes. Did you see Danno from Hawaii Five O in the library reading. They say all the time he's booking someone
The average pound per dollar exchange rate was 1.47 in 1986. So, 2500 pounds would have been equivalent to $3,675. The $4 grand guess for the Beetle was pretty darn close
