grrr ebay again

[johnsouthwales]

bit like ceefax.

oh bugga, i just missed an ebay auction, someone had something from abroad and i never knew anybody in the uk would have them. and it went for less than i was planning to bid boo hoo.. the seller has got a pair of something else i'd like, so back in a while.

got a few mins.. omg a liverpool shirt on sale @ £95

missed the item by 10 mins tut

[steviemac]

pay extra for special delivery .... job done and don't keep making same mistake

[johnsouthwales]

lol that's was close.. thought i was on a loser then.. bidded six quid 50 and i beat the second bidder. so had them both for £6.29 woo hoo

funny how it jumped from £2.04 to £5 in literally 30 seconds to go

[johnsouthwales]

zx81, spectrum and spectrum plus in ebay.. wonder how they go for. £16 with a day left.

probably my trains get smashed in the post lol. think i'll try ebay germany, someones bound to have what i missed earlier there.

[johnsouthwales]

zx81 had a 16 kilobytes memory. thats equal to 16 characters lol

[DGP1]

I had to go and check but the ZX81 had 1k of RAM, the Spectrum had 16k up to 128k, the BBC had 16 & 32k, the VIC 20 had 5k and the C64 had 64k, all these memories where flash memory and (for you younger readers) no hard drives (everything had to be loaded in from tapes/5¼ inch disks/cartridges everytime you needed to use them).

[johnsouthwales]

lol. spend 2 hours on a saturday night very carefully on a zx81, and press enter. get one blip haha.

wasn't there a commodore c16 in 1982? i used to make the plastic console for the bbc dragon. sincliar plus was run on tape. trivial pursuit was good on that.
had a lot of better things on that machine. then came the atari

[DGP1]

There was a C16 but that was only sold in the US, there was a C116 which was sold in Europe but TBH I can't remember them (had to refer to Wikipedia for the information).

I also remember writing the programs in BASIC (and occasionally in machine code but only from a book) and having to save them to tape

[johnsouthwales]

i just looked at wiki.. it was the c64 i remembered in 1982, white fascia. 64 kb memory. that was quite a bit of a breakthrough at the time. think it cost about a months pay

[johnsouthwales]

2 months wage more like. if i remember right, that was just for the keyboard

[johnsouthwales]

had my money back from paypal for last weeks episode today too. didn't take that long for it to come through

[norbert]

There was a C16 but that was only sold in the US, there was a C116 which was sold in Europe but TBH I can't remember them (had to refer to Wikipedia for the information).

I also remember writing the programs in BASIC (and occasionally in machine code but only from a book) and having to save them to tape

these are popular too on Fleabay - don't think I'd last five minutes taking one of these out for a spin where I live

[johnsouthwales]

dear oh dear. the c5. how much? lol

[johnsouthwales]

there's three of them on there. fifty quid each lol

[johnsouthwales]

don't believe this.. home shirt from last week has been refunded. so i needed a replacement from elsewhere. won a similar shirt on sunday, it arrived this morning 15 minutes ago. lol, i heard a knock on the door, when i got to answer, the posty went round the side door and as he was coming back up, he said he's left it by the door for me.. now, if i wasn't here just like he thought there wasn't anyone in cos the front door wasn't answered, meaning if i wasn't here at all, he would have left it there anyway. on the doorstep.

opened the packet, took the shirt out, nice looking shirt. not quite as mint as described but i'd say excellent. then it caught my eye. lose stitching around the collar. actually, no stitching in some parts argghhhhhh. here we go again tut