First to pop off...............2018

[weeboot]

Pericoloso said:

Quite a short life for Verne.

49.

First "celeb" passing I've been genuinely sad about for a while.

[Sheets Tabuer]

Pericoloso said:

Quite a short life for Verne.

https://youtu.be/wK1PNNEKZBY

[paua]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgD4vgG25_k

[red_slr]

Dang, had only found his youtube videos recently.

[Rawwr]

Well, he's not looking so great these days...

[FourWheelDrift]

Rawwr said:

Well, he's not looking so great these days...

It's for is new movie Moose - http://www.ladbible.com/entertainment/weird-celebr...

[Rawwr]

That makes way more sense

[Tango13]

FourWheelDrift said:

Rawwr said:

Well, he's not looking so great these days...

It's for is new movie

Cheers

The Moose

- http://www.ladbible.com/entertainment/weird-celebr...

Fixed that for you

[S6PNJ]

Rick Dickinson - Sinclair Spectrum (and ZX80/81) designer

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-43907248

A great piece of design work (even if the 16k RAM pack did wobble loose!). I still have a ZX81 and a rubber keyboard 48K Spectrum in the loft!

[FocusRS3]

S6PNJ said:

Rick Dickinson - Sinclair Spectrum (and ZX80/81) designer

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-43907248

A great piece of design work (even if the 16k RAM pack did wobble loose!). I still have a ZX81 and a rubber keyboard 48K Spectrum in the loft!

Another gone too soon

[S11Steve]

S6PNJ said:

Rick Dickinson - Sinclair Spectrum (and ZX80/81) designer

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-43907248

A great piece of design work (even if the 16k RAM pack did wobble loose!). I still have a ZX81 and a rubber keyboard 48K Spectrum in the loft!

Are you following the Vega+ debacle as well?

[S6PNJ]

S11Steve said:

S6PNJ said:

Rick Dickinson - Sinclair Spectrum (and ZX80/81) designer

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-43907248

A great piece of design work (even if the 16k RAM pack did wobble loose!). I still have a ZX81 and a rubber keyboard 48K Spectrum in the loft!

Are you following the Vega+ debacle as well?

Nope I saw the Vega+ when it was on kickstarter/other or where-ever it was advertised but didn't buy into it. What's the issue?

[S11Steve]

S6PNJ said:

Nope I saw the Vega+ when it was on kickstarter/other or where-ever it was advertised but didn't buy into it. What's the issue?

It's 3 years late, loads of legal battles between new directors and ousted directors/shareholders, a campaign of misinformation and subterfuge from Retro Computers Ltd, former employees revealing the inside story, a big split in the retro-Sinclair community and £500k of backers money unaccounted for.

It's allegedly being distributed to backers next month.... But the full gory details have been documented on this site - http://retro-computers.co.uk/

Rick designed the original Vega+ unit, but to his credit he was off the scene before all the drama kicked off.

[Cliftonite]

Good riddance:

Dennis Nilsen: Serial killer dies in prison aged 72 - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44097196

[Sheets Tabuer]

Loved him in airplane

[Jazzy Jag]

Tessa Jowell.
Aged 70

Edited by Jazzy Jag on Sunday 13th May 09:36

[Laurel Green]

Sheets Tabuer said:

Loved him in airplane

[Laurel Green]

Jazzy Jag said:

Tessa Jowell.
Aged 70

Edited by Jazzy Jag on Sunday 13th May 09:36

Very sad news indeed.

[Pebbles167]

Sheets Tabuer said:

Loved him in airplane

Preferred him in the Naked Gun films myself.

[DoctorX]

Lois Lane