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0 pointsdarreninthenet2y ago0 comments

Yup I grew up with one of those, my dad got some bonus at work and bought a BBC Micro B (with a 5.25" floppy drive, gasp!) when I was 7 and it was my first encounter with a computer... and then he got the (original) Elite game and I was hooked on computers ever since

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lttlrck2y ago

We also got a model B when my dad got a bonus (he was away for weeks during the miners' strike of '84) but we had a Radio Shack tape recorder [1] - not a floppy drive!

Some years later we went to a store to buy a floppy drive but I ended up with an Atari ST instead. For not a lot more money...

[1] https://i.pinimg.com/originals/b1/57/59/b15759f5425af9f2f650...

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lttlrck2y ago

We also got a model B when my dad got a bonus (he was away for weeks during the miners' strike of '84) but we had a Radio Shack tape recorder [1] - not a floppy drive!

Some years later we went to a store to buy a floppy drive but I ended up with an Atari ST instead. For not a lot more money...

[1] https://i.pinimg.com/originals/b1/57/59/b15759f5425af9f2f650...

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