** Andrew Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-11-13 09:21]: > Paul Tansom wrote: <<snip>> > Do you remember Microland in Waterlooville precinct, Paul? And upstairs at > the Baytree Bookshop? Ah, those were the days... > > I started out on a BBC Micro. We had the Graphics Extension ROM, as well > as the word processor and Disc Doctor ROMs. I love browsing through > http://www.beebgames.com/ for a trip down memory lane... ** end quote [Andrew Turner]
I most certainly do. I was in Microland on the day they opened and on the day they closed. On the opening day I bought Jetpac and on the closing day I picked up a few bits for my Amiga - a genlock, some video editing software which they threw in for free and a BBC BASIC package iirc. I remember watching Stuart sitting there smoking away whilst playing with an Amiga and thinking that I really must get one when I could afford it. I didn't buy my Amiga from them, that was Athene down in Gosport, but I did get my GVP SCSI HD card with memory upgrade and a Workbench 2.05 upgrade from there. Amazingly they were the best prices I could find. One of the main staff there (other than Stuart and Bob) is now working at PC World, and when I spoke to him a while back he said that Stuart and Bob had recently moved from Cornwall to France. I still regret not splashing out on the Memotech MTX computer they had when they were closing down. Unfortunately I decided to think about it and when I went back it had gone :( The Baytree Bookshop was another favourite haunt of mine. I remember see the Sam Coupe there and thinking it was interesting. I seem to remember getting a dot matrix printer from them once, and I bought a copy of The Hobbit for my Spectrum there too. The bookshop is still there, but not the computer section sadly. I have rather too many retro computers now, and several BBC Micros, including one with the trackball, SCSI interface and Philips LVD player, along with the BBC Doomsday project disks. I take it you were local to Waterlooville back then. I was at Crookhorn when Microland opened, and working at IBM iirc when the closed. Still here, as you clearly noted :) -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 ====================================================================== Registered in England | Company No: 4905028 | Registered Office: Crawford House, Hambledon Road, Denmead, Waterlooville, Hants, PO7 6NU -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
