santa ripped me off that year

Dirk Gently

pre computer 100

Anyone else get short changed by Santa with one of these. All I wanted was a commodore 64 but I got this useless pre computer 1000 instead. Mind you I was the smartest 10 year old in the estate. Everyone else was playing bolder dash and international soccer while I was doing spelling and geography tests on my pre comp 1000. Thanks a bunch Santa, hope you choked on them cookies I left out for you.

Oobie

My pre computer taught me how to type with the snake game!

matu

I had a Commodore 64 when I was 4 well it was my parents and they use to let me play it for hours, I never in my life got anythink that looked like that, thank god.
The 10 - 15 minutes waiting was priceless and then when it crashed you would go nuts.... ah those were the days.

MagnumForce

That looks familiar alright, i would have been pretty young, but it looks really familiar. We had a Spectrum Sinclair at one stage, then we (well my parents) bought a Commodore 64, best thing ever!! the time it took to load was occupied by the excellent loading music! It took so long, it was great! then when you died you had to rewind the tape and start all over again. Although i found out that on a few games, like Die Hard and Midnight Resistence, that when it says rewind and press play, if you just pressed play with out rewinding it would bring you to the next level, found that out when i bought one second hand a few years ago, turns out the guy i bought it from had gone blind and so couldnt enjoy the wonders of the mighty Commodore 64 any longer

matu

Yeah sometimes if you took note of the numbers on the counter of the tape deck and just rewinded to that point you would start on that level without having to rewind (double dragon was a great example of this).
I actaully spent the time and learnt quite a bit of the mirco language that the Commodore 64 was written in and I dont mean making you name flash in different colours even tho the first time I did tht I nearly wet myself. I thought I was some kind of hacker LOL

Lone Wolf

Ahh pre computer you got some of the best hours of my youth.

I think my one back at home in the attic somewhere.

*Mental note- go to attic next time home

Oobie

The Commodore 64 was great too. I remember spending hours typing in a program that made a hot air balloon move across the screen for about 5 seconds!

matu

Yeah those were the days, I made qutie a few games on it.
I even sent a few into magazines and one of them got put on a tape with another 10 games on it made by readers.

Ruu_Old

One year I "asked" for an Ireland jersey and all I got one some cheap ripoff thing, not even close! *shakes fist*:)

tinkerbell

I had one of them Pre Computer thingys!!! He he, I loved it!!!

matu

Ahh ha know I remember I did have one of these things a speak and spell it was know as.

SpitfireIV

Hey we had one of them pre computers too! They were great fun, all the different subjects, the quizs etc! And the disks you could get to pop into the side of them with more questions and added info. My little brother was using it up until a few year back :eek:

If you think getting one of them is bad, I got a more basic model the year my brother got the one in question, same make, VTech, but my one talked cant think of the name of it now, twas pretty cool though.

The year I did ask for a computer I got a Tomy Tutor Play Computer:
http://www.computermuseum.li/Testpage/Tomy-Tutor-Play-Computer.gif

Guess I wasnt ready for a full scale PC at 5 :rolleyes:

tk123

CroppyBoy1798 wrote:

The year I did ask for a computer I got a Tomy Tutor Play Computer:
http://www.computermuseum.li/Testpage/Tomy-Tutor-Play-Computer.gif

Guess I wasnt ready for a full scale PC at 5 :rolleyes:

It was ahead of it's time if you ask me - ultraportable, color display and the battery power is amazing!! I have mine up on a shelf with a few of my vintage toys... I was ripped off one year when santa brought me a stupid-ass fisher price microscope instead of one with dangerous glass slides etc -Mum-"But the fisher price ones don't break when you drop them" :rolleyes: Oh and also the year when I wanted a Teddy Ruxpin (looking back i was expecting it to be like Teddy from AI ) and got some non-brand thing that played back what you said..:rolleyes:

SpitfireIV

tk123 wrote:

It was ahead of it's time if you ask me - ultraportable, color display and the battery power is amazing!!

Battery power? .....it didnt need batteries, so 'twas even more advanced, and the graphics! Pheww, they'd blow you away, and that alphabet screen.....wow!

tk123

don't forget the space invadersw game!!

nollaig

Aah, yes, The precomputer. I remember it well. Hisory quizzes, general knowledge quizzes, Science quizzess and Hang-man. What a game! I'm pretty sure mine is still at home in the press somewhere and id be fairly confident it still works.
I had the "First Talking Computer" as well, fancy red digital letters used to come up on that with a cool robot sounding fella saying the letter you had just pressed. Hang-man was on that too!

matu

I think they all came with hangman as standard.

SpitfireIV

tk123 wrote:

don't forget the space invadersw game!!

Haha, how could I forget, and the dude in the airplane, think it was the first picture that appeared, and of course the robot at the end telling you to rewind to the start...........to see it all over again, ....how naive we were

GoldieBear

I wantedan Atari 2600 and i got pocket simon instead. the bulbs kept blowing and it was son annoying getting replacements. i still have the yolk somewhere at home.