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> a1200 came out in 92/93 i think and were £399 from SR i seem to recall.
Me and a mate drove to Milton Keynes to get mine - can't remember the name of the shop, tho'.
> Hedfix wrote:
> I think Vexxxed is Big Blue, how's Gary these days?
>
> Say what? Big Blue? I can happily say I have no idea who that
> is, nor do I know who Gary is. Sorry!
He meant
Deep Blue
,the IBM chess playing computer that beat Garry Kasparov in the 90ies. > Anyone remember 'Base Memory' and all the problems that caused? I
> couldn't get Micropose Grand Prix to run on my first PC because
> of that...
Ah, yes. Swearing ensued on many games...
> I think Vexxxed is Big Blue, how's Gary these days?
Say what? Big Blue? I can happily say I have no idea who that is, nor do I know who Gary is. Sorry!
> My god Timmargh, what year was this? ...
I can't remember the year. It was:
Amiga 1200 = £400
4MB RAM = £200
80MB hard drive = £200
> I remember back in about 1994 I had an Amiga with 16MB of RAM and
> paid about £50 for an extra 16MB :(
you had 16 meg in a miggy?? that`s pretty damn good! :D
i had an 030 accelerator for my a1200, still got an a4000 kicking around somewhere.
vexxxed - hehe yeah, our "technician" certainly had an increased workload as well. was ok though, he was a plank.
> until watches can communicate with my car, i`m not happy.
>
> a kid at school had a watch that had a remote control on it.. he
> kept turning the videos off in science.
LOL! Yeah, teachers had a hard enough job, but when those were released, their job just got so much harder! One of my friends had one of those and oh, that was an INCREDIBLE week! Every TV or video in every lesson was tampered with. No teacher had any idea what was happening, and the amount of technician hours wasted trying to fix a "faulty television" was unbelievable. Fantastic stuff!