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Does the ZX Spectrum deserve its crown?

News Commodore 64 or Acorn Electron? Amstrad or Spectrum? silicon.com readers have posted a flurry of comments around a poll we ran recently asking the question, what was your first home computer? Not only was it a very popular poll - but the results...

Tags: c64, computer, zx spectrum

[30 Apr 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 25.04.08

Round-Up In comparison, the Spectrum's big rivals of the day, the BBC Micro and Commodore 64, could only muster 15 per cent and 14 per cent of the vote respectively. If Speccy fans knew then what they know now, the Commodore 64 advocates would have been...

Tags: open source, zx spectrum, apple, london

[25 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...

Tags: mac, zx spectrum, rfid

[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? Here at silicon.com we recently, rather unexpectedly...

Tags: sinclair, commodore, spectrum

[22 Apr 2008]

ZX Spectrum crowned king of computer classics

News In comparison the Spectrum's big rivals of the day, the BBC Micro and Commodore 64, could only muster 15 per cent and 14 per cent of the vote respectively. In the battle of early 1990s gaming machines the Atari ST won out with four per cent of the...

Tags: commodore, spectrum, bbc, sinclair

[18 Apr 2008]

Digital Services Developer Launches Handheld Media Player With Embedded System

whitepaper Commodore International Corporation (CIC), based in the Netherlands, planned to develop a range of innovative digital media services. One, the Gravel-in-Pocket, aimed to meet the increasing demand for music and video streaming through handheld...

Tags: embedded systems, video, media, develop

[05 Sep 2007]

My first computer: The Dragon 32

News In fact I spent most of my time round at my mates' houses playing on their Spectrums and Commodore 64s. We are running the full series again to mark the recent re-birth of Commodore. Thus far we've featured the Acorn Electron, the BBC Micro, the...

Tags: dragon 32

[10 Feb 2005]

My first computer: The Commodore 64

News Did we know that Commodore was founded in 1954 by Jack Tramiel, a Polish Jew who'd survived six years at Auschwitz and other concentration camps? We are running the full series again to mark the recent re-birth of Commodore.

Tags: commodore 64

[03 Feb 2005]

My first computer: The Vic-20

News The Commodore Vic-20 debuted in 1980. We are running the full series again to mark the recent re-birth of Commodore. In the end, the humble Vic-20 was superseded by the Commodore 64 and something horrible in between called the C16.

Tags: vic-20

[27 Jan 2005]

My first computer: The BBC Micro

News We are running the full series again to mark the recent re-birth of Commodore. This article was first published in January 2002 as part of our 'Technologies That Time Forgot' series. Parts one and two featured the Sinclair ZX Spectrum and the...

Tags: commodore, bbc micro

[20 Jan 2005]

My first computer: The Acorn Electron

News We are running the full series again to mark the recent re-birth of Commodore. This article was first published in January 2002 as part of our 'Technologies That Time Forgot' series. Here Will Sturgeon considers one of the rivals to the Sinclair ZX...

Tags: acorn electron

[14 Jan 2005]

My first computer: The ZX Spectrum

News We are running the full series again to mark the recent re-birth of Commodore. This article was first published in January 2002 as part of our 'Technologies That Time Forgot' series of articles. Ah, remember the 80s.

Tags: zx spectrum

[11 Jan 2005]

<strong>Commodore</strong> rises from the ashes

Commodore rises from the ashes

News Commodore - one of staples of the early 80s and much beloved of those around at the start of the PC revolution - may be about to get a second lease of life. The Commodore brand name has been bought by a digital music company.

Tags: commodore

[05 Jan 2005]

MoD's 'screw it up and you suffer' approach is the way to go

Comment Air Commodore David Rennison, director of the DII programme, said: "IT projects are risky. When the Ministry of Defence revealed the bidders for its £4bn 10-year outsourcing contract this week, it reinforced the message of "risk mitigation" in...

[27 Jun 2003]

Record industry picking the wrong fight... again, again

Record industry picking the wrong fight... again, again

News In a second incident, Speakeasy, a national broadband provider, said the RIAA had apologised for sending it a cease-and-desist letter alleging illegal activity on a subscriber's FTP site devoted to the Commodore Amiga computer.

[14 May 2003]

What was your first computer?

What was your first computer?

News THE VIC-20 AND THE COMMODORE 64 One of our most popular video pieces ever was The Big Question: What was your first computer? first aired in April 2002. At the time it brought in a barrage of reader comments as you all became dewy eyed at 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

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]

Quote. Unquote. What was your first computer?

Quote. Unquote. What was your first computer?

News I was programming adventure games in 4K on a Commodore PET at school. silicon.com's latest Big Question video (http://www.silicon.com/a52539 ) features some of our best-known guests telling us how they became involved in computing, whether it was...

[10 Apr 2002]

Video games are 40 years old

Video games are 40 years old

News Technologies Time Forgot: The Vic-20 and the Commodore 64 http://www.silicon.com/a50999 It is 40 years since the birth of what is widely credited as the first video game, since students at MIT created an Asteroids-like program called Spacewar.

[05 Mar 2002]

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