[Closed] Anyone collect 1980's electronic gadgets?

Hell yeah. PM sent!

Nick, replied via PM thanks

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I still have a Spectrum 48k and C64 gaining dust in the loft?

Where I live, we have a team of men who come round to collect this sort of treasure every Monday morning (Tuesday if it's been a bank hol).

I have boxed sega mega drive in the loft if anyone wants it.

I have an original Big Trak.

... and I'm keeping it.

Pah! That stuff's all rubbish. You need some proper gear. I salvage and flog all sorts of old scientific equipment on Ebay. Things like this:

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It's amazing what people will pay for bits of old toot.

original gameboy with tetris
first series gameboy advance
1st N'Gage phone

one day my investments will be museum pieces (or landfill)

I still have a Spectrum 48k and C64 gaining dust in the loft?

Dibs on the dust!

Anyone want the world's first computerised board game, 1977. Code Name:Sector, sort of like a computerised Battleships or sub hunter. Got one sat here I'm never going to play again. Awful game, but a geek might want it. Quite a big box though.

I have boxed sega mega drive in the loft if anyone wants it.

yes please

I have an Oric 1 plus games.

I've got the original Colossus.
In my shed.

Got a binatone thingy in the loft. The one that only had pong on it.

I've got the original Colossus.
In my shed.

Have you bollocks! I've got it up on Ebay as we speak (current bid only £2.49, but there's a few hours left to run on it yet)!

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(That's not actually it, btw, but looks better than the real one)

Where I live, we have a team of men who come round to collect this sort of treasure every Monday morning

Class 😆

I've got the original Colossus.
In my shed

This?

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RadioRetro!

Aiwa "walkman"? I've got a genuine Sony version (I think it's early '90s though). Also a ZX81 - now surely that must have a bit of rarity value? 🙄 😆

Reluctant - holy crap, that's my stereo! Seriously, exactly the same model, served me well for -years-.

Hell, it even had the missing toggle on the middle selector. Have you been raiding my bins?

Ha! It's a great old ghetto blaster, I bought it new in 1984 and it's been used ever since. the cassette player packed up years ago, so now it just functions as a workshop radio. What we gonna do when they turn off the analogue signal?? There's gonna be so much redundant radio equipment 😥

My parents had one like that. The tape player played stuff slightly too fast. You didn't notice it at first, but if it was an album you knew it started to become really obvious and annoying 🙁

I've got a Sam Fox poster 😆

I have an Oric 1 plus games

molgrips - where did you manage to find any games for the Oric?

All I could get my hands on was Zorgons Revenge (a poor Star Trek rip-off) and Harrier Attack (inspired by The Falklands campaign methinks). They were both bobbins.

Is your Oric going begging - I'd love to have one again. I was just getting into 6502 machine code when mine expired.

ZAP PING BOOM

I have a ZX81 and a 48k Spectrum with rubber keys, fully boxed, I wouldn't sell them for all the tea in China. They're worth bugger all anyway.

If I could have one thing back from my childhood in complete working order it would be my Millenium Falcon.

Me and the Oric go way back. I did originally have a fantastic collection of stuff, including the Oric 1; a load of games; some esoteric programming stuff including an assembly language IDE (for want of a better word), Forth and several programming and hardware manuals that detailed the entire machine from circuit diagrams to ROM listings; the original tape player we bought for it; even the original TV we bought for it; the box, the manual and all that stuff; and some magazines with code listings 🙂

However that got separated - I lent the games out to someone and the computer to someone else and never got them back. The one I have now I got from a guy who was a slight collector. It's cool, perhaps, but it's not mine 🙁

Anyway I liked harrier attack - you could get really good at it.

Might be persuaded to part with it.. but for somethign maybe.. got anything to swap? 🙂 (this is just like school!)

Ten bob and a toffee apple?

What we gonna do when they turn off the analogue signal?? There's gonna be so much redundant radio equipment

I thought it was only analogue TV signals they were turning off. Radio should be unaffected.

Might be persuaded to part with it.. but for somethign maybe.. got anything to swap? (this is just like school!)

But I thought you said it isn't your Oric-1 ❓

How about two copies of Knave - both unsplattered? 😆

I own the computer in question - what I meant was it's not the same one I grew up with, and the games aren't the same.. well some are but my faves from childhood aren't there.

My cousin had the Oric Atmos - basically the same spec computer but with a "proper" keyboard. I quite like the Oric keyboard - especially the space bar - it's like a really long Wrigley's Extra
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Yes indeed.. and the synthesized click click click click clock noises when you type.

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I ordered my Oric in September 1982 and received it in January 1983!

I did get a 48k for the price of a 16k though as Tangerine were having problems with the smaller RAM version. That was a real saving.

TBH -I only ordered the Oric because of the long delivery issues with the Spectrum - how iroric.

The Oric was a much better machine, but sadly died on its arse Betamax style.

I just remember my dad going to Dixons in Hereford and unexpectedly coming back with one. To be fair, it was an investment as it set me up in my career!

How about two copies of Knave - both unsplattered?

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And he'll throw in a slightly crusty Razzle Readers' Wives Special!*

*Spring 1978. More 'foliage' than the jungles of Borneo.

I just remember my dad going to Dixons in Hereford and unexpectedly coming back with one

That is one very cooooool dad.

Although to be fair my parents bought me my ZX81 and Oric-1 for xmas. But there's no way it'd have happened without my direction.

That September to January was the longest wait ever. I can still remember the Royal Mail van turning up one cold January morning and dropping it off. The smell of fresh electronics in the morning....

My Mum and Dad were (and still are) very sensible prudent people. We never had loads of money growing up, but we did ok more or less. However, secretly they love the thrill of splashing out on stuff, so occasionally they'd do stuff like that and be all excited for a change 🙂 I still remember the day they came home with a video recorder after we'd spent the day at the neighbours. The first two films we got out were Chariots of Fire and Star Wars.

I was only 7 or 8 when the Oric was bought, so I knew nothing of computers and didn't know I wanted one.

I still have a Marantz PMD430 Tape Recorder, no tapes though!
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