Date : Wed, 13 Sep 2006 17:05:40 +0100
From : "Colin" <cwhill@...>
Subject: Re: No, please don't! (tell about car boot finds)
The only stuff I have come across at boot fairs or charity shops have bee
n
well into double figures for the most basic (no pun intended) of stuff
(typical, £25 for a knocked-about Beeb with no extras).
It is presumed that, as it was the "first", so to speak and now over 20
years old, it must be expensive and worth a lot. They look quite crestfal
len
when you say they are not worth more than a few quid (but still won't dro
p
the price).
Colin Hill
----- Original Message -----
From: "Littlefield Aaron" <CALITTLEFIEL@...>
To: "BBC-Micro Mailing List" <bbc-micro@...>
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 4:53 PM
Subject: [BBC-Micro] No, please don't! (tell about car boot finds)
> Sorry if you find this boring Wouter (no bad feelings meant by the way)
,
but
> I find it fascinating to hear what people have found in the wild (so to
> speak), I certainly wasn't intending it to be a bragging competition. I
f
> it's any help the B+ I referred to earlier cost me a hefty sum (so it w
as
no
> bargain by any means!).
>
> The main reason I raised the issue is to find out how much stuff is sti
ll
> out there, because all of my hunts around car boot sales etc have been
> pretty dire. Acorn bits seem to be pretty sparse - and that's surprisin
g
> considering how many were sold. I just wondered where everybody else fo
und
> or obtained their hardware because other than flea-bay (which I admit i
s a
> collectors playground), I just don't see (or hear of) Acorn machines
> anymore. I'm sure there are plenty hidden away in lofts and attics - I'
d
> just love to get my hands on them, as I'm sure would many other users o
n
> this newsgroup.
>
> Regarding your query over magazines, I personally thought that the 'Inp
ut'
> magazines were great. They tended to be more business like; I distinctl
y
> recall being allowed to type out a bar chart program at school taken
> directly from the magazine, but I found it to have decent content. It
wasn't
> your Acorn User or similar magazine with letters to the editor etc, but
the
> programs were useful.
>
> Which games were the best? Barrage by Micropower has to be up there, I
> played it last weekend!
>
> Aaron
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Majordomo List Manager [mailto:majordomo@...] On Behalf
Of
> W.Scholten
> Sent: 13 September 2006 16:04
> To: BBC-Micro Mailing List
> Subject: [BBC-Micro] No, please don't! (tell about car boot finds)
>
> Littlefield Aaron wrote:
>
> > Purely out of interest, what's the best Acorn item you've ever bought
> > from a car boot or private sale?
>
> Hmm, I find this sort of topic very boring because it's usually just
> bragging. I mentioned this a long time ago as well in a discussion abou
t
> prices on ebay, that that sort of thing really put me off a dutch
> mailing list: lots of bragging how cheap they got item xxx, lots of
> complaining how expensive yyy was on ebay. On my website I do mention
> stuff I got for free or for a very low price, but only because I think
> that's fair for the people who donate...
>
> What I find much more interesting is discussions about things such as:
>
> - Which magazines (general and/or BBC micro specific) do you like and
> why? (the index of articles on BBC stuff in general mags is finally
> getting somewhere btw, starting with David Harrison's material I've bee
n
> adding a bit. See my webpages. Updates/additions are welcome.)
>
> - Which listings in magazines are particularly good or useful? For
> example, I fondly remember "the grid" from PCW, "WW1" from Practical
> computing, "Hexplode" (PCW, also Beebug). Maybe because they were among
> the first games I typed in, but I still think they're ok and quite good
> for magazine listings. There are a few dupes, some listings appear in
> multiple mags. Apart from Hexplode in 2 mags, I think "The grid" later
> appeared in Practical computing as well. This will probably be the case
> for many more listings.
>
> - Which games are the best? I'd like to see a list of top games that
> you'd have to try to get a feel for what was available on the BBC micro
> and its capabilities. There are a few thousand games IIRC, and I don't
> think I've tried all of them. In 1984-1985 I only had perhaps a dozen
> games and when I got my second BBC with Opus Challenger in 1995, I
> suddenly had hundreds of games on discs! Took quite a while to try them
out!
>
> And now for something completely different. Here are my votes for
> "achievement in the field of the BBC micro in 2005/2006" :-)
>
> 1. The PDF books by Christopher Dewhurst
>
> 2. The new hardware by Robert Sprowson (speech, copro). Very
> impressive, although to be honest, I don't see a point to using an ARM
> copro (too far from the old stuff, might as well connect a PC via
> serial/parallel cable and use that as a 2P, far faster still).
>
> --
> Wouter
> ---
> BBC micro | Calculators | Classic PC games:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~swhs/whs/
>
>
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