In the eighties we made our own entertainment

[hirez]

As you might expect, we've been trawling through piles of things and trying to work out what to keep, and what should have been thrown since it had had at least two decades to come in handy. Random photos are random and contain scenes I don't remember.



Early 80s. Probably 83-84. Note cheap guitars, skronky monosynth, the Computing Toady issue containing the multi-platform graphical (for Commodore and MZ80K values of same) adventure, C64 hacking manual, Maplin book and lord knows what other technical docs. We don't talk about the microphone case.



I don't know what became of the Logical Machine Corporation, or indeed what that particular machine was called. There was a bigger one with two drives called a Tina. I dragged the thing home from then-work, where I was a bench technician, to write a spares-control/inventory system over the Christmas holiday. From what I remember it worked quite well. The windowsill is filled with components and random bits of circuitry. The desk belonged to dad. Since it now belongs to me, I am finally allowed to rifle through the drawers where there are many Interesting Things.



At least I think it's a Montesa. Could be a Bultaco. 1986-ish. Another picture contains Pa, but I can't yet bring myself to scan it. Sorry about that.

Comments

[bogwitch64.livejournal.com]

A peek into JHR's earlier life. Look at that computer! Is it even a computer? And that desk is gorgeous. Wow.

Is that your mother?

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Yes.

Quelle Interesting!

[jendama.livejournal.com]

Are those rolls of thermal fax machine paper in the first shot and is that a roll of duct tape in the second photo?

Re: Quelle Interesting!

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Thermal paper for the photocopier, in fact. Yes.

[bmlg.livejournal.com]

Dear God. I have that carpet. It is in the living room Right Now.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

It was a carpet that, like so many of the things I grew up with, didn't quite fit the room it was in because it had been a spectacularly expensive carpet in a different house a long time ago.

[uk-jon.livejournal.com]

I don't even *remember* the microphone case. Happy days.