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We’re off to see the Wizard.
Hello my friends. Continuing and concluding (for now) the musical theme of the last 4 weeks of previous blog entries, we are still in the early 80’s. I have my Casio VL-1 and l also have my beloved Commodore 64. A new wave of electronic music is sweeping in and my Father has a chance…
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Keynotes
Hello my friends. From the last blog entry we are staying in the world of music this week. My Mother and Uncle H pop up today and also my Father bumps into a fledgling musician that will go on to write and preform some of the most memorable electronic music of the 80’s! Welcome back…
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The chances of anything coming from Mars…
Hello my friends. In the last blog entry we looked at my childhood experiences with 70’s audio equipment. We are now about to dip our toes into the early 80’s and l get captured by a piece of tech that I will have a life long fascination with. We will also talk about my first…
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This is a journey into sound
Hello my friends. Being a child of the early 70’s, entertainment was quite rudimentary but it doesn’t mean it was boring, far from it. One of the underlying loves of mine from those days right up to now and for the rest of my life will always be music, sounds, listening and playing. We will…
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The Micro battle
Hello my friends. We are now in the early 80’s. I have just got my Commodore 64 and heading back to school after the Christmas and New Year break but I wasn’t the only one that got a new micro. What did my friends get? and what computers did schools have before the micro boom…
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Three Blind Mice
Hello my friends. In the last blog entry we talked about Christmas 1982 and how I got the most amazing micro computer set up. Now we are going to explore what that initial experience was like. Welcome back ☺️ In 1982 the launch line up of games for the Commodore 64 in the U.K. was…
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Magic Moments
Hello friends. There are often times in life where in hindsight you wish you could just freeze it and pop back in time and visit that moment again and again. Christmas of 1982 is one of those. Welcome back ☺️ Let me set the scene. School is now on break for the holidays and my…
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Keep it quiet, keeping up with Commodore.
Hello my friends. In today’s blog we are now going to dive into a very exciting time in the early 80’s where home computers or micro computers as they were commonly called became the big thing. But there was 3 key problems to the general public; 1. Why do l need a micro computer? 2.…
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Clickety-Clackerty
Hello my friends. In today’s blog we are now in the very early 80’s. Things for me are about to change up in a massive way and once again my Mother plays a most crucial role that will influence my childhood for years to come. Welcome back ☺️ If my Father was the practical, braun…
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Jingles and it’s a keyboard, l guess?
Welcome back my friends, and today l am going to talk about the run up to me getting my first proper home computer. I don’t know about you, but l am very much a musical person. Rhythms, beats and melodies all seem to stick in this rats nest l call a mind of mine way…