Just got very nostalgic as I came across the Amstrad 6128 Plus computer, the system that started my journey into the world of computers and contributed immensely to my current career path of programming. I think I was about 12 when Santa Claus delivered one and it has to have been the most significant and most used present I ever got. Everyone else at that time had their Commodore 64s and eventually their Amigas but I got years out of that Amstrad. My programming skills developed over countless hours of typing, modifying and creating BASIC programs.
It had a weird 3″ floppy disk drive that meant games were hard to come by, particularly in Laois/Kilkenny, but some of the games it did have were great, check out the version of Batman The Movie via Youtube.
Must have a root around and see if it’s still at home somewhere!
Got more photos from Annette Ryan (thanks again), and a couple of mobile phone snaps and added them to the collection. I’ve put them all up on the photo website flickr where it’s easier to manage them. There you can also see a nice slideshow with all the photos in order from the start of the match through to the celebrations at the end. There’s 62 in total at the moment.
Congratulations to the Harps camogie team who won the All Ireland Junior Club Camogie title for the 2nd year in a row beating Keady of Armagh by 2-8 to 2-7. A great game that swung back and forth finally decided by a point from Aine in injury time.
Hadn’t upgraded Wordpress in a good while so finally made time for it today and upgraded to the latest which is 2.3.1
Always better to leave a new version upgrade for a while anyway to allow the plugins and themes catch up. Although the 2.3 series now comes with a plugin update notifier which is very handy.
