# Jumpers For Goalposts – Childhood Business **URL:** \ **Category:** Chat\ **Created:** [September 25, 2024, 8:53am UTC](https://forum.testpressing.org/t/jumpers-for-goalposts-childhood-business/5352 "2024-09-25T08:53:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![grantham\_disco](https://forum.testpressing.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/e9bcb4/32.png) [@grantham\_disco](https://forum.testpressing.org/u/grantham_disco)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2024, 6:08pm UTC](https://forum.testpressing.org/t/jumpers-for-goalposts-childhood-business/5352/104 "2024-09-29T18:08:45Z")
I got a similar model late in 80s Used to tape Pete Tong 89 - 91 & then edit down to just the tracks religiously Until all the buttons broke It had a CD so must be later, I owned v few CDs but did have the Black Box album ---
**Author:** ![lovehandles](https://forum.testpressing.org/user_avatar/forum.testpressing.org/lovehandles/32/7444_2.png) [@lovehandles](https://forum.testpressing.org/u/lovehandles)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2024, 6:23pm UTC](https://forum.testpressing.org/t/jumpers-for-goalposts-childhood-business/5352/105 "2024-09-29T18:23:26Z")
Ah yes the classic midi hi fi. I had a Saisho one. My first (ahem) music studio was my midi hi fi and this- the mighty Yamaha pss 680: ![IMG_2251](https://forum.testpressing.org/uploads/default/original/3X/e/b/eb808417dd0e973083351bd2d472090dad80aa5b.jpeg) I used to record drums for a few mins and then overdub synths one at a time live using two cassettes, swapping them between the Hi fi and a separate crappy tape deck so you’d end up with a tune of sorts, buried between 5 or six generations of tape hiss after every overdub Fucking hilarious but 15 yr old me thought I was the bollocks… this was the precursor to the mighty octamed on an Amiga with an 8 bit sampler which doubtless was many people’s intro to making electronic music late eighties early nineties, Plaid used it on their early stuff iirc ![IMG_2252](https://forum.testpressing.org/uploads/default/original/3X/b/0/b0cb99896feab659cb32787395a5aea8977c284b.jpeg) Sorry for the rambling post you took me back a minute there x ---
**Author:** ![elzorro](https://forum.testpressing.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/ea666f/32.png) [@elzorro](https://forum.testpressing.org/u/elzorro)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2024, 6:01am UTC](https://forum.testpressing.org/t/jumpers-for-goalposts-childhood-business/5352/106 "2024-09-30T06:01:33Z")
Loading something into a ZX81 computer using a tape player. You had to get the volume just right. ![IMG_6191](https://forum.testpressing.org/uploads/default/original/3X/e/b/eb76077d85c5b9b677309dc4a7435051bf9dee45.jpeg) ![IMG_6190](https://forum.testpressing.org/uploads/default/original/3X/f/b/fb4396359e4e943db420706db99da5617de03182.jpeg) Screen looking like this. And the noise it made! ---
**Author:** ![howler](https://forum.testpressing.org/user_avatar/forum.testpressing.org/howler/32/28123_2.png) [@howler](https://forum.testpressing.org/u/howler)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2024, 6:22am UTC](https://forum.testpressing.org/t/jumpers-for-goalposts-childhood-business/5352/107 "2024-09-30T06:22:35Z")
ZX Spectrum 48k for me [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/MtBoRp_cSxQ/maxresdefault.jpg "ZX Spectrum loading screen") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtBoRp_cSxQ) ---
**Author:** ![AndrewFlying](https://forum.testpressing.org/user_avatar/forum.testpressing.org/andrewflying/32/23595_2.png) [@AndrewFlying](https://forum.testpressing.org/u/AndrewFlying)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2024, 6:29am UTC](https://forum.testpressing.org/t/jumpers-for-goalposts-childhood-business/5352/108 "2024-09-30T06:29:39Z")
Syntax error… after 1hr 45mins of hideous tape loading noise. ---
**Author:** ![lovehandles](https://forum.testpressing.org/user_avatar/forum.testpressing.org/lovehandles/32/7444_2.png) [@lovehandles](https://forum.testpressing.org/u/lovehandles)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2024, 8:47am UTC](https://forum.testpressing.org/t/jumpers-for-goalposts-childhood-business/5352/109 "2024-09-30T08:47:32Z")
10goto20 20goto30 30goto40 and so on for about five hours… just to draw a triangle ---
**Author:** ![Gavin](https://forum.testpressing.org/user_avatar/forum.testpressing.org/gavin/32/2532_2.png) [@Gavin](https://forum.testpressing.org/u/Gavin)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2024, 9:13am UTC](https://forum.testpressing.org/t/jumpers-for-goalposts-childhood-business/5352/110 "2024-09-30T09:13:27Z")
Tape? You had it lucky, used to type the code in from magazines, one tiny error could scupper everything. No idea how I had the patience, can’t even wait for a YT ad to play these days. ![product-82246-683060203](https://forum.testpressing.org/uploads/default/original/3X/f/1/f12319b78f099e8de5bc07292efe873fa4806b06.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![elzorro](https://forum.testpressing.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/ea666f/32.png) [@elzorro](https://forum.testpressing.org/u/elzorro)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2024, 11:08am UTC](https://forum.testpressing.org/t/jumpers-for-goalposts-childhood-business/5352/111 "2024-09-30T11:08:08Z")
That was basically a super computer compared to the zx81! After the Zx81 we had an Acorn something. Like a shit version of the BBC Micro we had at school. My kids can’t believe my primary school had 1 computer! ---
**Author:** ![howler](https://forum.testpressing.org/user_avatar/forum.testpressing.org/howler/32/28123_2.png) [@howler](https://forum.testpressing.org/u/howler)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2024, 11:10am UTC](https://forum.testpressing.org/t/jumpers-for-goalposts-childhood-business/5352/112 "2024-09-30T11:10:33Z")
OMG - those codes! ---
**Author:** ![elzorro](https://forum.testpressing.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/ea666f/32.png) [@elzorro](https://forum.testpressing.org/u/elzorro)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2024, 11:10am UTC](https://forum.testpressing.org/t/jumpers-for-goalposts-childhood-business/5352/113 "2024-09-30T11:10:41Z")
Kid at primary school returned to UK after living in California for several years. His bmx and Nike trainers were like something from Mars in what was probably 1981 /1982. He had an Atari with loads of games. Mind. Blown. ![IMG_6192](https://forum.testpressing.org/uploads/default/original/3X/4/f/4f657b577b4bcf4afb89943787eaf54c9d6cf608.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Apiento](https://forum.testpressing.org/user_avatar/forum.testpressing.org/apiento/32/658_2.png) [@Apiento](https://forum.testpressing.org/u/Apiento)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2024, 1:24pm UTC](https://forum.testpressing.org/t/jumpers-for-goalposts-childhood-business/5352/114 "2024-09-30T13:24:19Z")
In the manual of the ZX81 they had this Monopoly Game you could type in and I spent ages typing it all in… Pressed GO and nada… Nothing That was pretty much the end of my coding career… ---
**Author:** ![howler](https://forum.testpressing.org/user_avatar/forum.testpressing.org/howler/32/28123_2.png) [@howler](https://forum.testpressing.org/u/howler)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2024, 2:20pm UTC](https://forum.testpressing.org/t/jumpers-for-goalposts-childhood-business/5352/115 "2024-09-30T14:20:55Z")
My grandfather brought one back with him from a trip - Skeet and Pong. Had to go to Wales to play out though…🤣 ---
**Author:** ![lovehandles](https://forum.testpressing.org/user_avatar/forum.testpressing.org/lovehandles/32/7444_2.png) [@lovehandles](https://forum.testpressing.org/u/lovehandles)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2024, 3:02pm UTC](https://forum.testpressing.org/t/jumpers-for-goalposts-childhood-business/5352/116 "2024-09-30T15:02:18Z")
And it’s a rotary Way better than the ones with faders! Edit: clearly switches my bad… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![cash\_or\_exchange](https://forum.testpressing.org/user_avatar/forum.testpressing.org/cash_or_exchange/32/27702_2.png) [@cash\_or\_exchange](https://forum.testpressing.org/u/cash_or_exchange)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2024, 4:16pm UTC](https://forum.testpressing.org/t/jumpers-for-goalposts-childhood-business/5352/117 "2024-09-30T16:16:49Z")
Mr Scruff talks about both those processes in a link on the What Are you Youtubing thread - let me dig it out… [Mr Scruff talk](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zfAvWBea9Kk) ---
**Author:** ![dustyfingers](https://forum.testpressing.org/user_avatar/forum.testpressing.org/dustyfingers/32/7249_2.png) [@dustyfingers](https://forum.testpressing.org/u/dustyfingers)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2024, 4:40pm UTC](https://forum.testpressing.org/t/jumpers-for-goalposts-childhood-business/5352/118 "2024-09-30T16:40:42Z")
![2024-09-30 15.58.07](https://forum.testpressing.org/uploads/default/original/3X/5/f/5f2b9bff630aa102145ee29b3bc9be084a1655a4.jpeg) Octomed software (on a single floppy!) and some of my tunes, quite curious to get a reader and see what these sound like in 2024! ---
**Author:** ![Hierbas](https://forum.testpressing.org/user_avatar/forum.testpressing.org/hierbas/32/18779_2.png) [@Hierbas](https://forum.testpressing.org/u/Hierbas)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2024, 4:46pm UTC](https://forum.testpressing.org/t/jumpers-for-goalposts-childhood-business/5352/119 "2024-09-30T16:46:40Z")
Remember my Dad trying to load a chess game on the ZX81 and tearing his hair out when the slightest jog wiped everything. Halcyon days ---
**Author:** ![lovehandles](https://forum.testpressing.org/user_avatar/forum.testpressing.org/lovehandles/32/7444_2.png) [@lovehandles](https://forum.testpressing.org/u/lovehandles)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2024, 6:12pm UTC](https://forum.testpressing.org/t/jumpers-for-goalposts-childhood-business/5352/120 "2024-09-30T18:12:58Z")
Funnily enough I watched that last week- love it -plus howler’s mention of pause button tapes… necessity being the mother of invention and all that- Problem for me with software nowadays is myriad choices in stark contrast to those days… ---
**Author:** ![lovehandles](https://forum.testpressing.org/user_avatar/forum.testpressing.org/lovehandles/32/7444_2.png) [@lovehandles](https://forum.testpressing.org/u/lovehandles)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2024, 6:14pm UTC](https://forum.testpressing.org/t/jumpers-for-goalposts-childhood-business/5352/121 "2024-09-30T18:14:54Z")
Gritty! Lot to be said for 8 bit drums mind, the irony of people spending money to achieve that sound itb via software not lost on many of us no doubt ---
**Author:** ![jolyon](https://forum.testpressing.org/user_avatar/forum.testpressing.org/jolyon/32/32255_2.png) [@jolyon](https://forum.testpressing.org/u/jolyon)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2024, 6:21pm UTC](https://forum.testpressing.org/t/jumpers-for-goalposts-childhood-business/5352/122 "2024-09-30T18:21:21Z")
Same experience. A lad on our estate came back from America with one. Playing Space Invaders at home!! Incredible. We had one of these - I’d guess around Xmas 1981 ish. ![IMG_0031](https://forum.testpressing.org/uploads/default/original/3X/6/d/6d99b289dcf63262f2520499f83a9ecd20f4b9e9.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![jolyon](https://forum.testpressing.org/user_avatar/forum.testpressing.org/jolyon/32/32255_2.png) [@jolyon](https://forum.testpressing.org/u/jolyon)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2024, 6:24pm UTC](https://forum.testpressing.org/t/jumpers-for-goalposts-childhood-business/5352/123 "2024-09-30T18:24:00Z")
Had a zx81 as well, bought from our next door neighbour for £20. It did absolutely nothing. [Previous page](https://forum.testpressing.org/t/jumpers-for-goalposts-childhood-business/5352.md?page=5) [Next page](https://forum.testpressing.org/t/jumpers-for-goalposts-childhood-business/5352.md?page=7)