Chasing tigers with the Amstrad PC1512 | recreating my teen PC!

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[jandschroder]

Thanks for this nostalgia trip with my first computer - bought with my father...!

[Skaerab]

Hope you're doing okay, dude. That last bit can't have been easy to say out loud.

Great video.

[dbeaumontresident]

I literally cried tears of joy for you when the tiger image came up. What a truly wonderful dedication from a Son to Father. I've no doubt he continues to be proud of you, no matter where he is. Happy Holidays to you and your wife ♥

[RDJ]

23:32 i can hear the emotion in your voice, and i feel it.



Great video as always :D

[JonMichaelDeShazer]

I lost my Dad almost 10 years ago. He was a programmer for many years as well as a musician who penned nearly 75 songs in his life. We had a 486 PC when I was in high school that he used word perfect to write all the lyrics to his songs. The computer was gone several years but I was able to get a backup of the entire 540 MB drive before it died.

Less than a year before he died, I was able to retrieve all of those word perfect files from that drive using VMware and booting up the old disk image of that machine. He was thrilled his music would live on, even if he wasn't, as he died from Leukemia in February 2010.

Sending you a virtual hug Perifractic! You are not alone.

[viJ]

I understand your nostalgia - I feel it too. The thing about nostalgia now, is that it's better than it was. That's the defining characteristic of nostalgia - to make our past seem better than the present... or the future. You're doing better than you ever have, the past is only a benchmark.

[Caseytify]

I'm too old; we didn't have personal computers when I grew up. The original Texas Instruments TI-30 calculator didn't show up until my senior year in high school.
It's good you have memories of you & your dad setting the machine up. Mine passed in '84, so I know what it's like to miss him. He was an infantryman in WW2 Europe. Lord knows how he would have reacted to PCs.
Glad to see your "youth" collection is done!

[lcalvom]

Great video Chris. It's great that you have this PC on your collection, by that way your memories with your father will never be missed. Thanks for sharing it with us. Greetings from #Madrid #Spain

[geraldspratley]

I was in tears for you over the picture. Such a wonderful memory! Great video brother!

[ejstacey]

I was unreasonably invested in that damn Tiger being there.

[RiccardoConturbia]

The tiger is the equivalent of the mask of Tutankhamen for Amigas :)

[thStIncident]

I was really much more thrilled than I had any legit reason to be when that IMAGES folder appeared on the DOS disk. Hope everyone in the Fractic family has a great holiday season.

[arthurdanielles]

I had the 1640 and used it extensively for accounting, word processing and so much more. Alan was a true 'entrepeneur' with the way he took on the pc market to deliver what was still a the cheaper price a 'quality' product. Loved the whirring sound of those discs :):)

[Sinclair_Research]

Wow! Such touching words about your dad towards the end of the video... I know what you mean man... Really nice!

[ShRk]

Beautiful video to watch... for many reasons, including the homage to your Dad. Glad you've now completed your museum! I keep looking at Amstrad 464 & 6128's on eBay as I had one of each... but I had loads of stuff with mine. Unfortunately the Amstrad got stolen from our shed once I upgraded to the Amiga. Not sure I could actually bring myself round to buying one as it wouldn't be the same. Also my wife isn't as understanding as Ladyfractic, and would be annoyed at the space it'll be taking up! But I am glad someone is giving these machines a new life. It was the CPC 464 I got at 12, that started me on my programming career!!! Thank you Lord Sugar for such a wonderful machine!!! :)

[saganandroid]

In less than 50 seconds, you and your dog both improvised off of each other. Amazing.

[MeneGR]

17:04 and the 1.0/1.1 version we got on the CPC..
Thank you for taking us along on this journey!
Cheers from Greece!

[Chriswales]

Had one of these, it was my 3rd home computer. A 512 with dual floppys and a colour monitor. Did a little modding with the help of my late father, upgraded the memory to the whole 640k and put a 32mb Winchester hard card in the back. The hard disk was attached to the controller card so I kept the two floppy drives. This brought back a lot memories, sounds like it also did with you.

[stephanepiquemal]

This Amstrad PC-1512 was the first computer my father bought, here in France.
I remember, when I was younger, I spent countless hours colouring this tiger on the computer (we had a colour monitor with it) :-)

[RichardT]

Bloody wicked. Your father may not be there to enjoy it, but I want to thank you for bringing us along! Cheers mate! My best to MrsF.