> 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 :)
Wow, small world etc! I assume you mean Crookhorn Comprehensive School - I was there from, er, 1984 til 1988, then at South Downs College. I now live in Shropshire. What year did Microland open/close? I used to get my BBC and Amiga software there, too. I remember buying Elite from Microland, Revs from the Baytree, and also queuing up at Microland on the day of release for Elite II. I was so excited, shame it never quite lived up to expectations. Andrew -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
