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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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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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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…
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May 4th be with you
Hello friends and welcome back to this extra special mid-week-ish blog post, (usually l post once a week on a Saturday), but today is a date that conjures up one of my fondest memories of my Mother who passed away in 2018. As l said before, l am a child of the 70’s and 80’s…
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The Sloane Ranger
Hello friends. If you have made it this far, then 10 points to Gryffindor and welcome back. If my Grandfather was my technology mentor, then my Father encouraged it in me as a child growing up. He worked as an electrician from an apprentice at the age of 16, right through his working life. He…
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He made me an offer l couldn’t refuse.
Hello friends and now for that tricky third album, l mean blog post. I hope you are having fun reading these so far and welcome back. I’m a Godfather. In fact, twice over to a little boy and girl that aren’t so little any more being teenage and in their twenties respectively…wow where have the…
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In the beginning…
Welcome my friends to the first of what l hope to be many blog posts. Why am l doing this? Well, this year l celebrate my half century on this third rock from the sun and l just wanted to write a few things down, share some insights over the last 50 years and then…