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Does the ZX Spectrum deserve its crown?
News Commodore 64 or Acorn Electron? silicon.com readers have posted a flurry of comments around a poll we ran recently asking the question, what was your first home computer? Amstrad or Spectrum? Not only was it a very popular poll - but the results... [30 Apr 2008]
Dear silicon.com... ZX Spectrum nostalgia, Mac attack, tag a bag…
Comment I would have liked to complete your survey of "what was your first home computer" but it only lists computers from the early to mid 1980s, ignoring the fact that home computing actually started in the late 1970s, with computers such as the Nascom... [24 Apr 2008]
Editor's Blog: Home computing from Acorn, Amiga and Amstrad, to the ZX Spectrum
Comment That meant beating other classics such as the Apple II, BBC Micro, my own personal favourite the Amstrad CPC464, and others including the Commodore 64 and Dragon 32. Where was the Commodore PET? While many approved of the ZX Spectrum being crowned... [22 Apr 2008]
My first computer: The Vic-20
News We are running the full series again to mark the recent re-birth of Commodore. The Commodore Vic-20 debuted in 1980. In the end, the humble Vic-20 was superseded by the Commodore 64 and something horrible in between called the C16. [27 Jan 2005]
What was your first computer?
News THE VIC-20 AND THE COMMODORE 64 At the time it brought in a barrage of reader comments as you all became dewy eyed at the recollection of your first brush with home computing. Last week, the video returned to the inbox as our archive 'Video of the... [14 Jan 2003]
First computer, first love
Comment Many of you have clearly seen those aspirations through to fruition often because of early games like Pong, Chuckie Egg, Frogger, Citadel, Jet Set Willy, Head over heels and Manic Miner played on computers like the BBC B, 8086 Hyperions, Dragon... [12 Apr 2002]
Best of Reader Comments: Your first computer
News I remember finding it on top of my mother's wardrobe about a week before Christmas and thinking "Bugger, I really wanted a Commodore 64. My first computer was a Commodore Plus 4. Do you remember your first computer? [11 Apr 2002]
Technologies Time Forgot: The Vic-20 and the Commodore 64
Comment For part two of this column - our look at the Commodore 64 - click here: http://www.silicon.com/a50951 This week we hear from Tony Hallett and Jon Bernstein, silicon.com writers who were drawn to the glamour of Commodore machines. [04 Feb 2002]
Technologies Time Forgot: The Vic-20 and the Commodore 64
News For part two of this column - our look at the Commodore 64 - click here: http://www.silicon.com/a50951 This week we hear from Tony Hallett and Jon Bernstein, silicon.com writers who were drawn to the glamour of Commodore machines. [01 Feb 2002]
Those were the days: Remembering the ZX Spectrum
Comment Sure, some readers reckon the BBC Micro or the Commodore 64 (though not Vic 20! Ever since we decided to take a trip down memory lane and remember the Sinclair Spectrum - a machine that gave many of us our first taste of computing - we've been... [17 Jan 2002]
Best of Reader Comments: ZX Spectrum users get dewy eyed
Comment But I have to put forward the opinion that the Commodore 64 (the playground 'enemy' for Speccy owners) was a lot better. If Commodore had a little more business nous, then it's a distinct possibility that they would own a fairly significant slice... [14 Jan 2002]
The best of 'Reader comments': Electoral liberties, 'rip-off Britain' and farewell to the paperclip
Comment OK, so it was a long time ago, but do you know the best thing about the Commodore 64/Atari era? It may not be news to the majority of us, but to hear a judge accuse mobile phone operators and computer games manufacturers of ripping off users (http... [19 Apr 2001]
The best of 'Reader Comments': Women in IT and cybercops
Comment We didn't have a 1GHz P3 each, we had a BBC Micro and a Commodore 64 between 30 of us. --Foolish to ignore female labour pool From: Virginia Wakely This really gets my goat for goodness sake! The Government and the industry need to take a long hard... [16 Nov 2000]
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