Hi Terry We are all getting older (I'm 78) and the question arises what to do with our keepsakes? System 80's and Colour genies. My 4 children between 22 and 29 aren't going to be interested. Although I haven't turned the computers on for some time I suspect they will still go. I did have a hex keypad on my System 80 and an Atari type joystick connector beyond that. I've also seen an advertisement for Custom Computers who did a lot of upgrades for me.

Hi Terry,
I like your retro videos, and I hope that you will also do some on those software that were the heyday 3 or 4 decades ago, like Visicalc, 123, Wordstar, Dbase etc. I recommend you try out Ashton Tates' Framework II(or III or IV) that runs on top of MSDOS and has a user interface similar to Windows, way before Windows came onto the scene.

Best regards
Albert

Thank you for your nice videos. When I was child (around 6 years old) I stare my eyes over these circuit boards and 8bit computers. I was dreamed on what happen inside them. Electrons moving one way, bits flying and big brothers words hanging around with their friends. Then what happened my father bought me C64 with tape drive. And my dreams comes true and my career began. Now I m Electrical Engineer and programming machines. When I watched your clips on Youtube I feel same childhood days inside me. Thank you again. Good job. Regards.

Hi tezza! Hope you had a great Christmas!!

As an expat Aussie I love your online videos and enthusiasm on all your computers. I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t jealous you have a wonderful collection I stubbled onto your videos via youtube a year or so ago and still playing catchup. As it’s close to Christmas hope you have a wonderful Christmas and New Year.

Greetings, Terry!

I've seen your postings on VCFED and recently saw one on the subject of using ADT to transfer to an Apple IIgs. Came by here to look for a link but couldn't find it. Ah, well.

-CH-

After being "infected" by a CBM 3016 around 1980, my first owned machine was a Colour Genie in 1982. Very good memories, even got it off the attic recently, hooked up to a 50" flatscreen... still the same blurry screen But: my youngest >really< enjoyed playing Frogger and others, and I played Invasion for the first time in decades. Hard to get the software onto the machine, so started a software cassette player: did not want to have all these WAV files but play directly from CAS selection lists. Maybe make it a bit more polished and flexible, then make available for download. Anyone knows regarding copyright still active on these tapes? Doubt it, but you never know.

Tezza, thanks for this nice site, I think I have to get some software running and also find out which manuals or books I still have, not to forget the old Z80 books. Some might be in my parents attic still, unfortunately far away at the other end of Germany), but I should get this packed in one place here.

Keep up the nice site!
Matthias

Just saw the TRS80 from 77! That was the first computer I ever touched! Wrote my first ever program on in 78! Still programming to this day.

Thanks for the trip down memory lane!

Greate site. I like the way you document your projects. Keep'em coming.

Hi Terry,

Great site! Great videos on YT. Hope all is well with you and keep up the good work!

Kind regards,

Simon.

Hi,
I have been doing some searching on an old Telecom computer I have in the garage. found out it is a ICL one per desk from your site. Any ideas on how much it is worth as I need to clean some space. It is an awfully big and heavy machine.

Learned a lot about systems I could not afford as a kid and young adult. Thanks for the well made videos.

hello, i read your post about eprom
its nice, i have a problem with
programming RTC DS1216D
do you have any info how buy used ALL-11
programmer? or other way for programming

Absolutely marvelous work and documentation your doing. I particularly gleaned a lot of education from your 8" Floppy Drive effort.

I designed an IBM format compatible controller (FDC-10) for the Apple II back in the late 80's that allowed an Apple to read and write to FM & MFM formatted discs from CP/M and the up and coming IBM of the time. I had lots of fun doing so, but soon after focused on the DaynaFile that did the same, but for the Mac.

Hey Terry,

I love your YouTube channel. But been a while though since you made a new video. I hope all is fine with you and this real-life thing (I heard about ) doesn't pin you down, preventing showing new (old of course!) hardware reviews.

Well it's December, so alrwady a Happy Christmas and good New Year!

G'day Terry.
Just pulled a DS Sys80 out of mothballs. Turns on (Power LED) but thats it. Hitting F1 enables the cassette desk to operate.
Troubleshooting in the manual points to a DS549 Transistor (which I can find no reference for online).
Only if you have time, would it be possible to flick me an email and maybe help troubleshoot this old girl?
The Dick Smith System 80 was my childhood computer and I'd love to be able to get it up and running again.

Hi Terry. Wow! I just came across your youtube video of the Spectravideo 328 and software demonstration. [www.youtube.com]

I was the one that wrote the Ghostrap game that you featured in the video. I also created a number of others game that I later realised and sold directly myself under the NBS Software label. It was very nice to see one of my most early games shown on youtube!!!

Kind regards,
Nigel

Hi Terry, I love your system-80 page as you write it like a adventure.
I just like to tell that in germany there was a large community using TRS-80, Komtek and Video Genie (the system-80 named Video-Genie) imported by TCS. TCS made some modern computers compatible to the Video Genie but faster and made for CP/M and NEWDOS. They where the Genie-III, Genie-IIs, Genie-IIIs and the Speedmaster. The last 3 were designed by Uwe Boeker who studied mathematics in 1983. As they where made in Germany most documents are in german language. I saved them at [oldcomputers.dyndns.org] .

So thanks for your side I like to visit if I've time.

Best Regards

Fritz

I've seen some of Terry's videos on youtube, and only today did I happen upon this website looking for information on writing disk images to floppies for my Mac SE FDHD. It worked, which was fantastic.
My first vintage computer was a Commodore 64, which I got as a gift years ago. Witin the last year I've added a C128, an Amiga 500, and my Mac SE. One day I hope to add a classic '77 Commodore PET, and a TRS-80 Model III.
I'll certainly peruse more of this site in the coming weeks!

Hi,
Interesting site, I've just dug my Video Genie out of the attic and also found my DP1000 circuit board, ( where the case went I don't know)

Any info on the DP1000 you have would be greatly appreciated, as is the site...

Regards
Amanda Hambidge