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I don't know if this is specifically your childhood experience, but you're describing also my childhood too, and I didn't grow up in Dundee. There were plenty o
by amiga386 4y ago
I don't know if this is specifically your childhood experience, but you're describing also my childhood too, and I didn't grow up in Dundee. There were plenty of first- and second-hand ZX Spectrums to go around, VIC-20s, C16s, C64s, Amstrad CPCs, and the schools had BBCs. The UK went home-computer mad. Remember when there were type-in listings in C+VG? The Usbourne computer books? [1] INPUT magazine? [3] Kids were swapping tapes like crazy, and writing their own demos and games, all over the country.
While Timex may have played a part and the density of Speccies may have been higher in Dundee, I still think Timex's main contribution to Dundee's games industry was to make David Jones redundant, giving him the money to buy an Amiga 1000 [3]
[1] https://usborne.com/gb/books/computer-and-coding-books https://usborne.com/gb/books/computer-and-coding-books
[2] https://archive.org/details/inputmagazine https://archive.org/details/inputmagazine
[3] http://www.javalemmings.com/DMA/DMA1_2.htm http://www.javalemmings.com/DMA/DMA1_2.htm
- Gordonjcp 4y ago> I still think Timex's main contribution to Dundee's games industry was to make David Jones redundant, giving him the money to buy an Amiga 1000 Valid.