Any tech-spotters in?

[synaesthesia]

Blimey, Richer Sounds - there's a blast from the past. Used to get loads of odds and sods from them!

[DJ-1701]

Blimey, Richer Sounds - there's a blast from the past. Used to get loads of odds and sods from them!

 

One word... Tandy.

[mikeprice]

One word... Tandy.

 

 

oooo yes - forgotten about Tandy

 

however I bought stuff from Richer Sounds a while ago - they still exist and send me tempting emails which I drool over

[synaesthesia]

The store I worked in had a Tandy section. Useful for electronic components and adapters you wouldn't otherwise find

[Dos_Box]

One for the older gamers:

 

 

Not many decent pictures of this available I'm afraid.

[Boredguy]

That looks like the Elite HUD we had for the spectrum

[FragglePete]

One for the older gamers:

 

[ATTACH=CONFIG]41363[/ATTACH]

 

Not many decent pictures of this available I'm afraid.

 

T'was called the Lenslock - indeed for Elite on the Speccy. Loved that game back then.

 

Pete

[Dos_Box]

T'was called the Lenslock - indeed for Elite on the Speccy. Loved that game back then.

 

Pete

 

It is indeed, well spotted

This is an early example of an anti piracy measure. What would happen is that the game, upon loading, would display garbled characters on the screen. You then put the LensLock over these and it was 'supposed' to make the letters clear and you entered them to unlock the game.

That was the theory at any rate! In practice it could take quite some time to make sense of the code under the lens (if you were lucky!)

 

[LeMarchand]

I had a combat helicopter sim with that system. Used to fire up the Speccy with twin programmed joysticks after Airwolf on Saturday! Was frustrating trying to get the thing positioned just so to read the damn code.

[Dos_Box]

And a last one for the day:

 

[Al_NetSupport]

And a last one for the day:

 

[ATTACH=CONFIG]41370[/ATTACH]

 

Looks like one of the old Atari palm style PDAs they made.

 

I had something similar and then went all hitech in the late 90s with a Handspring Visor - now that was cool

Edited February 6, 2017 by Al_NetSupport

[Dos_Box]

Wow! I wasn't expecting it to be got that quick!

It is an Atari Portfolio hand held PC. Quite advanced for the time (and featured in the film Terminator 2):

 

 

*That's it. Tomorrow I get SERIOUS!

[Arthur]

Here's one that might be tricky from this angle...

 

 

I bet @Dos_Box knows what this is though.

[Garacesh]

@Arthur

 

SEGA CD

 

Edit: Well, one of 'em, anyway.

Edited February 6, 2017 by Garacesh

[Arthur]

SEGA CD

You're almost there, but not quite.

[Garacesh]

Oh come on, it's one of the flavours of CD, I remember that much xD

It was SEGA, and it was CD's

Edited February 6, 2017 by Garacesh

[Arthur]

Oh come on, it's one of the flavours of CD, I remember that much xD

I'll give you this one. It's the Sega CDX.

 

[DJ-1701]

Here's one for you... branding removed.

 

[synaesthesia]

Swipe cards? That's not one of those barcode battle things is it?

[DJ-1701]

Swipe cards? That's not one of those barcode battle things is it?

 

 

Bingo, the Barcode Battler... which in my mind was rubbish for the time.

[Arthur]

Something a bit harder to guess (hopefully!)...

 

 

Clue: It's from the mid-90s.

[Dos_Box]

I had a vacuum cleaner attachment that looked a bit like that!

[Arthur]

I had a vacuum cleaner attachment that looked a bit like that!

It's neither a vacuum cleaner attachment or part of a vacuum cleaner, although I see what you mean.

 

Another clue. You would hold it with your hand or hands.

[localzuk]

Looks like a camera lens to me, with a sliding cover. Apple Quicktake?

[Arthur]

Looks like a camera lens to me, with a sliding cover. Apple Quicktake?

That's exactly right!

 

It's an Apple QuickTake 100 digital camera.