Tony is a Geek

As I expected, the start of the year did it's usual - I had a lovely time over xmas/new year period doing fun things in my personal time and then a return to work and the big blue dominant shadow of work/work overshadowed and eclipsed everything.  TBF though I could just ignore it and carry on as before, however, I needed to wrestle back control of my current project as it was being overrun by people intent on a downward spiral of destruction and I couldn't have that - I have worked too bl00dy hard for the past 3-years to allow it to all collapse and die just because they were not mentally capable of changing into a Research & Development mindset.  Alas, something has to give and for me that is/was my time and effort.  I am glad to say, I and the project are back on track and heading into a positive trajectory. I digress. Whilst my return to Captain-ship and alleviation of mutiny was squashed , I did take the plung and order myself a FUJINET device for the 8-bit Atari...

Okay, this will be a QUICK post... honest... I was watching a YouTube video about a new Retro-Museum being opened in DERBY.... ...and I was thinking, well, there we go - when we pop along in the motorhome to the Peak District we can "pop-in" on a Saturday 10-4pm for a visit. Then my missus said, "you could probably open one of your own".  This got me thinking. I then decided to take a little look up in the loft(s)..and whilst I had sold off an entire room of Amstrad related retro-hardware about 10years ago (I dread to think what that lot would be worth now - but hey-ho) I found quite a few boxes of interesting machines that I had bought back in the 2007/2008 timeframe. As I said, I'll do a more indepth post on each setup etc... in the future, for now here is a taster; there are quite a few Spectrum machines (something I never had as a kid), a few Toshiba MSXs and a few Atari 800 XLs.... with lots of peripherals. Yes, that is 2 x 5.1/4" floppy disc drives - ...