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# oh... have a chrome vic 20
(, Fri 22 Sep 2006, 15:37, archived)
# ooh lully!
(, Fri 22 Sep 2006, 15:38, archived)
# ah, the VIC20
*remembers the day*
(, Fri 22 Sep 2006, 15:38, archived)
# back in the day when i was young, i'm not a kid anymore
but sometimes i sit back
and wish i was a kid again
(, Fri 22 Sep 2006, 15:39, archived)
# and that your 'special' uncle wasn't in prison yet?
(, Fri 22 Sep 2006, 15:40, archived)
# The Vic 20 was poo.
Fortunately ours broke almost immediately and the parents agreed to replace it with a Spectrum instead.
(, Fri 22 Sep 2006, 15:47, archived)
# i used to mock my best mate all the time because of his vic20
when i was a kid
(, Fri 22 Sep 2006, 15:40, archived)
# I bet he still remembers the tauntings
as he sits in his portakabin at work
(, Fri 22 Sep 2006, 15:42, archived)
# probably
i haven't spoken to him for years.
The last time I saw him, he on on the weakest link and he won (it was the daytime one though so he won fuck all)
(, Fri 22 Sep 2006, 15:49, archived)
# very pretty
someone could make a few quid selling USB spectrums / commodores to work as PC keyboards.
(, Fri 22 Sep 2006, 15:43, archived)
# huh
what do you mean O ginger one?
(, Fri 22 Sep 2006, 15:45, archived)
# ..get on dragons Den...
That's A Winner...

"Have you patented the Idea...?

So what's to stop me going out right now and...etc etc"

(, Fri 22 Sep 2006, 15:46, archived)
# i would love to have a spectrum 48k keyboard
(, Fri 22 Sep 2006, 15:48, archived)
# ^ This!
I had that idea ages ago but I unfortunately have no technical ability to achieve my dream.
(, Fri 22 Sep 2006, 15:49, archived)
# I might try that
with the ZX81 knocking about somewhere in the loft.

If I ever learn to solder.
(, Fri 22 Sep 2006, 15:49, archived)
# use blu-tack
(, Fri 22 Sep 2006, 15:50, archived)
# soldering is easy
best way to learn it is buy a bag of resistors, and make shapes and stuff out of them by soldering them together.
I made a dalek when I was learning - it was ace
(, Fri 22 Sep 2006, 15:54, archived)