Retro Computers

A website was launched this week for punters who fancy a go at creating software for vintage Acorn 8-bit hardware. RetroSoftware.co.uk was set up to give a helping hand to anyone who wants to take a nostalgic trip back to the days of hacking together 6502 assembler code or wants to experience writing for 1980s microcomputer hardware for the first time. Beta testers, musicians, artists and illustrators and other contributors are also welcome to join in, we’re told.

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A handful of former Acorn grandees who helped bring the BBC microcomputer to the masses held a happy reunion at the Science Museum in London today. The group met up for the first time in 20 years, we’re told, at a get-together organised by the museum’s Computer Conservation Society to celebrate the legacy of the Acorn 8bit microcomputer.

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I am now the owner of a Sony HitBit HB-75P machine. Is one of many from the MSX range of computers. It hasnt come with any leads, so I will need to make up a tape cable.

Photo here!

Millions of serviceable computers in the UK end up in landfill sites rather than being recycled, a study has claimed.

The research, sponsored by Fujitsu Siemens Computers (FSC), found that 12.5 million unwanted PCs and laptops have not been reused or recycled by their owners.

The survey found that one in four machines are taken to tips and more than one million computers have been dumped in household rubbish or the countryside.

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Lots more photos added to the gallery.

Ive repaired the faulty 5 1/4 drive on the //c, and the machine is now working fine. Ive uploaded lots of disk images via ADT Pro, and all is well.

Photo of my machine here.