for me my first was a BBC Micro and I still have it and use it. Also had a Spectrum and Spectrum+ later. Amazing that someone here had a Coleco ADAM. Would love to know if it had all the legendary problems it was reported to
have had ?

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Re: first computers
By: BRIAN J MARTIN to All on Sat Oct 22 2022 17:59:23

for me my first was a BBC Micro and I still have it and use it. Also had a Spectrum and Spectrum+ later. Amazing that
someone here had a Coleco ADAM. Would love to know if it had all the legendary problems it was reported to
have had ?

I started out pirating my dads NASCOM 1 computer. we built it together and it was a bunch of A4 sized boards that you had to put together yourself. I found it amazong once we had the green monitor and the tape drive. I spent hours on that thing.

He then had a PET which is what they were using at work. then obviously PC's. But i was bought up cutting my teeth on 8051s, z80s z8s, 6502s :D

as far as *MY* computers, i started out with a ZX81, then a Spectrum 48k/128/ along with a couple of BBC Micros, with the logo turtle, teletext adapter and a bunch of home built robotics that i designed and my dad helped put together which all ran off the BBC.

then the '64, and an A500 then PCs.

my FAVE computer of the time was the Beeb.... i made sooo much stuff, and when i ended up going to college (matthew boulton in birmingham), I actually designed a sign board system that ran off of a BBC in Mode 7 and mimic'd teletext. then i actually built a teletext emulator on the beeb that you could actually use with a real TV and the teletext button :D

Now I live in the states i wish i could get a beeb sent over :D but trying to find one is silly... but i still dabble with Z80s, 8051s, Z8s and of course arduinos and pi's


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Teletext emulator WOW, sounds like you were quite the Whizz kid Charles.
That sounds extremely interesting have you seen what the guys who created TEEFAX have done recently and their Vbit2 software on the Pi. it sounds like you were decades ahead of them if I understand you correctly. What they have now used the Pi to get some use out of the old Teletext adaptors that are around. Often they come up on Ebay. Vbit is I think the only way to get much fun out of them these days. I am typing this from my BBC Master, I also have
my original ModelB. I am using a RPi with TCPSER as a wimodem to log on. I am trying to get a viewdata BBS built myselF but finding any working BBS
software for the Beeb is proving impossible. Some programs exist they just
dont work with Hayes modems. A former purveyor of BBS software is trying to
get me something though so I am hopeful I will have a small night time dial
up Viewdata BBS available in 2023. Hopefully you can visit.

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Oh That's awesome brian

yea it worked the same pretty much as normular teletext did... you could punch in a page number on the keyboard etc and it would load said page off the disk.

nothing spectaular, but was written on an RM480Z originally and ran on the schools micronet network in the computer lab.

as for the beeb itself.. i've been trying to get my hands on one for years but they're proving difficult to find someone that would ship to the states.

as for bbs software i have no idea to be honest.

good luck in getting the viewdata project going i look forward to hearing more. as for visiting, i'm hoping to com over later on this year so maybe..... i can find something.

i'm still trying to get my dads friend to give me his complete setup.. he has almost everything that was ever made for the things.

Charlie

BRIAN J MARTIN wrote to Charles Blackburn <=-

Teletext emulator WOW, sounds like you were quite the Whizz kid
Charles. That sounds extremely interesting have you seen what the guys who created TEEFAX have done recently and their Vbit2 software on the
Pi. it sounds like you were decades ahead of them if I understand you correctly. What they have now used the Pi to get some use out of the
old Teletext adaptors that are around. Often they come up on Ebay. Vbit is I think the only way to get much fun out of them these days. I am typing this from my BBC Master, I also have my original ModelB. I am using a RPi with TCPSER as a wimodem to log on. I am trying to get a viewdata BBS built myselF but finding any working BBS software for the Beeb is proving impossible. Some programs exist they just dont work
with Hayes modems. A former purveyor of BBS software is trying to get
me something though so I am hopeful I will have a small night time dial up Viewdata BBS available in 2023. Hopefully you can visit.

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