I enjoyed reading your stories. You remind me alot like myself. I'm from the USA and over 25 years ago I wrote over a dozen board games for the TRS-80 Model 4 and several dozen board games for the Tandy 2000. I am a collector of vintage computers.

Hi Terry,
Great site! I enjoyed reading your comments about RetroBrite just now. I hope you find a long term solution. I added your site to my "FrequentMisc" folder which means I'll be checking back rather often. I can tell there is a lot to explore that I've not seen yet.
Best regards,
Charlie C.

Impressive collection - what blast from the past.

Take care + greetings from Austria

Great Website, Beebs RULE! Thanks.

Hi.

Very nice collection.. Love the machines.

Best regards,

Miguel

Enjoyed your YouTube video on the Challenger 1P, that I saw referenced in the cctalk group on classic-cmp.org. Very interesting to see the computer in operation. Nice Exidy Sorcerer, by the way.

Dear Tezza,

I am a vintage computer enthusiast, much like yourself, now fiddling with a Commodore 64 plus a 1541 drive.
I found your disk image transfer most useful, and I plan to do so myself.
Altogether it is heartwarming to have someone these days that still speaks the language of the old microcomputers of the 1980s.

Wow - this is cool!

Do you have or will you put other Bits & Bytes magazines up? 1987, 1988 etc ?

Ahhh - Nostalgia. I own a partially defunct TRS80 III that I purchased new around 1981. It contains two PSU's only one of which still works. My intention (several years ago) was to get the diskette PSU repaired, but it's never quite happened. A recent Trademe purchase of a TRSDOS manual and diskette may rekindle interest. Philip Avery's experience with a TRS80 III PSU was an interesting read but I'm afraid the soot surrounding a couple of capacitors is about as far as my limited electronic knowledge has taken me.
Thanks for the walk down memory lane

Hi, just wanted to congratulate you on the website and to say thanks for making the bits & bytes magazines available. What memories! Just to let you know they are being thoroughly enjoyed here in Finland. Will keep an eye open for updates. Best wishes,

Sam

Have you seen any graphs of computers in homes in NZ since the 1970s?

What a trip down memory lane!
I drooled over a CBM PET when I was a schoolboy (our school had a single PET 2001 with the calculator keyboard).
I also nearly bought an exidy Sorcerer but ended up with a second hand Intertec Data systems "Superbrain".

Great work, archiving all these old magazines!

If I recall correctly, issue one was given away at my High School in Hastings to all computer geek students. I ended up writing for them in the last years of their existence. I think they still owe me for the last two articles but they went belly-up before they cold cough up! :)

One request - there's a few issues missing - I found broken links for 3.01, 3.07, and 3.08. Any chance of a fixed link for those? Much appreciated in either case!

- Jack Machiela

Hi Tezza
Congrats on your great work here, just found your site today, so many contents to read.
And here's a broken link, hope you can fix it, TIA!
BitsAndbytes issue 4-5
Gerard

He I am from the US and just found an Atari 400 but I need a cheap way to get a new power adapter. Can you help?

Thanks for scanning in the old mags. I was really pleased and nostalgic to see again my first ZX81 game publised in issue 2-12 Sept 1984 page 33. Brilliant!! The ZX was so much fun!!

Great to see people still active in the old scene!

I have 3 old Atari 400 systems, 4 old 800xl systems, 3 ST systems including 1040stf mono colour screens, Falcon 030, and various carts for 8-bit! My disks were stolen years ago, but i have downloaded everything Atari even though I should have bought a Commodore Amiga( Not Atari ST), as design is basically an Atari 8 bit modified, same designer!

Hi Tezza,
Thanks for your good article on the Osborne1. It was a good reference in resurrecting my newly acquired Osborne1. As you know by now, it also suffered the same 'blowing/smoking' capacitors.
Cheers

I was passed a message that you wanted to document the development of so-called 'classic' computer games of the 80s' - typically called 8-bit home computers these days - that were designed and programmed in New Zealand?

Since you started this quest of documentation? some years? ago - I don't know why you have not contacted me? regarding the first home computer arcade games that were completely designed and programmed in New Zealand...

Hi!
thanks to your article on the Wellington Haul, and especially the article on the New Zealand Telecom Computerphone I was finally able to identify something in my collection that has been taunting me for a while...turns out I own an NOS replacement keyboard for said compterphone...no idea how that part made it to germany to be picked up by me.

Thanks!

Chris