Date   : Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:01:40 -0000
From   : bbcmailinglist@... (Ian Wolstenholme)
Subject: Photos/Blog

I didn't have a lot of luck with my Spectrum +2.  It was my first home
computer in 1988 as a reward for passing my 11-plus.  Previously, some
years earlier, we'd had an Apricot F1 on loan from my mother's work,
which I used for writing stories on Word Perfect for DOS.  I don't remember
using floppy discs, so I presume it must have had an early hard disc.  For
ages I was writing a story called "Shipwrecked" and I could never understand
at the time why I had to spell the file name "SHIPWREC.KED" to fit it all on!

As to the Speccy, we bought it from the local Dixons and I remember we had
to have four or five different models till we got one which worked without
any problems.  It was finally abolished in about 1991 when I got my first Beeb.

Best wishes,



Ian

----- Original Message -----
From: Kish Tailor [mailto:kishtailor@...]
To: bbcmailinglist@...
Sent: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 01:59:48 +0000
Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] Photos/Blog

Thanks for the pics to byte back.

I really liked the photo if the zx spectrum +3 and your comments about  
the floppy drive.

The zx spectrum does have a disk interface made by third party  
company  which I am lucky enough to have purchased one when it first  
came out. It have a snapshot button on the side that when pressed,  
saved whatever was in memory to a disk drive.

Another disk drive unit that I am proud to also own is a cumana disk  
interface for the oric range of computers. Unfortunately, it does not  
have a snapshot button but a disk utility that only runs on the oric  
atmos that will save a cassette file to floppy.

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On 23 Mar 2009, at 00:28, "Ian Wolstenholme" <bbcmailinglist@... 
 > wrote:

> Two weeks later, my effort is finally here:
>
> http://www.BeebMaster.co.uk/ByteBack/ByteBack.html
>
> Best wishes,
>
>
> Ian
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Rob [mailto:robert@...]
> To: bbc-micro@...
> Sent: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 12:09:36 +0000
> Subject: [BBC-Micro]  Photos/Blog
>
> .... and mine is here:
>
> http://blog.irrelevant.com/2009/03/byte-back.html
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