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Asteroids GameAsteroids be one of the most famous arcade games. Astro Blaster was a table top arcade gameAstro Wars was an electronic arcade game of the ‘table top’ varietyAtari-FalconThe Falcon was Atari’s final home computerAtari STThe Atari ST was a 16-bit home computer that was commercially available from 1985 through to the early 1990sCommodore 128The [...]
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Commodore 128 C128 a competitor to the Apple Macintosh and the IBM PC, but things never really panned out this way.The Commodore 128 ended up being wedged between the already hugely succesful Commodore 64 and the soon to be huge seller, the Commodore Amiga.So let us take a look at a machine that never quite [...]
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The Amstrad CPC 464 was introduced in 1984, and was designed to be a direct competitor to the Commodore 64.It also indirectly rivalled the?Oric 1, Oric Atmos and the Acorn Electron.Packaged as ‘a complete system’ the CPC 464 came with its own monitor and built-in cassette tape deck. Like the C64 it sported a sizeable [...]
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Which is the top seller laptops or desktop computers? A laptop compose of a display screen, a keyboard, a pointing device ( a touchpad, also known as a track pad, and/or appointing stick),a hard drive, optical drives, speakers, and often including a battery, into a single small and light unit. The rechargeable battery is charged [...]
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Seagate has long been one of the most popular brands for hard drives in the nation. Between Seagate and their competitor Maxtor most of the quality hard drives on the market are made and sold. If your hard drive does not have one of those two names on it chances are you have inferior product [...]
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BBC Micro Manufactured by Acorn computers for teaching BASIC programming and robust enough to last for years in the classroom, the BBC micro is surely one of the most important machines of the 8-bit generation.Let’s look at another classic computer from the 80′s…Inception of the machineThe BBC decided to badge a micro computer and drew [...]