The Amiga OS is too 1950's and Unixy for my taste. Erm, no interactive terminals in the 1950s, merely paper tape, punched cards and (in one case) telephone dials for input. :) Interactive sessions didn't arrive until the mid 60s. (Member of pedants anonymous... or would be if that weren't an oxymor...

I don't have the info at hand I'm afraid, I read it years (decades?) ago. AmigaDOS was indeed a re-implementation of TripOS, which was developed in Cambridge and written in BCPL. As I understand it Commodore and Metacommco didn't have the rights to the original implementation and so copied it functi...

Of course, if we are talking about the history of the Amiga we have to remember that the first (pre-release) version of AmigaDOS was written in BCPL by Metacommco (I believe on QLs). Similarly, the pre-release version of Atari TOS was written by Metacommco in C, maybe QLs again? With respect of C's ...

The software in question is at https://www.synaxus.de/index.php/en/traceminer/tm-40 and the company is Synaxus. They apparently registered the Trade Mark "TraceMiner" back in 2013. If they are looking to take money off me for "legal costs" they can go seduce themselves! IN my wo...

I did a lot of research into this many years ago. The only hard and fast rules are that the surface needs to be non-abrasive, and it can't be a plastic or static-generating material. Scotch tape, when rubbed by a fast moving plastic strip, creates a static charge which induces crackles into the rec...

It says the speccy next is out of stock on the web site - so they must have flown off the shelves. They are charging quite a lot for RTC and the few addons that appear to be included in the more expensive version - If the board layout hasn't changed that much, I don't think the addtioanal component...

A pretty good haul today! b878eb2c-7519-48b4-907f-67ffe6f453f7.jpg *SNAP!* :-) Well, I've had mine for a while. I picked up the BBC B+ 128K from the work rubbish pile back in around 1997 and bought the "Toastrack" a couple of years ago off eBay. I finally got around to fixing the Beeb las...

Tricky. It very much depend upon how many machine you can keep. If it were me I'd use this priority list: 1) The machine(s) I use most often. 2) The most unusual/rare items. 3) The one best example of each type (which you can play with, not just horde). From what you list, on the ZX Spectrum front, ...

What may be interesting is a twin drive case/PSU with one floppy and space for a Gotek in the other slot. Maximum flexibility then for data transfer. (Even better if they were switchable DS0/1 externally to swap them between flp1_ and flp2_ )

Instead of a real floppy drive you could buy a Gotek unit with the "Flashfloppy" firmware installed.

With various interface cables the one unit could be used with most/all of your other machines as well.