Welcome to my guestbook

Warren Falk

My first computer, back at 7 years old was an Aquarius. I am amazed to see so much information here on the machines. Just a few years ago, Internet searches for Mattel Aquarius yielded nothing. Thanks for making this information available. 14 March 2006, 12:28:52

W.v.d.Elshout

Long ago I began to make programs on a aquarius 4k. I'm a teacher and so I made my own educating programs for my class. In school we had C64's. With the "basicode-language" I made a lot of programms that were send by the radio in the Netherlands. You had to record them on cassettes. Those programms worked on any computer because there was a basicode-emulator for every kind of computer. I even contacted a citizen in the D.D.R. (then behind the iron curtain), who owned a KC-computer. He wrote that my programs were also used on his school (he was a teacher to). That was the beginning of a long friendship!!! We gave each other programms by using the telephone. I was at home and he in a telephone-cell because he had no telephone at home. We tried it to send it in envelopes but often the tapes were erased. So we emailed already long before internet existed! (Sorry for my poor English! I'm Dutch.) Walther van den Elshout wvdelshout@lycos.nl 6 February 2006, 13:40:20

Loke Westhoff

By the way: Bedankt voor het plaatsen van de link naar mijn site cu 23 January 2006, 15:33:06

Loke Westhoff

hee Martin. Ik heb nu ook een gastenboek (ook deze), maar ik krijg hem alleen als link terwijl jij hem direct op je web pagina kunt zien. Hoe doe je dat??? zie je morgen (24-01-2006) groetjes Loke 23 January 2006, 15:31:24

jasper

i once had i aquarius but my dad trew it away when we moved 15 January 2006, 06:09:31

JIMMIE WHEATON

THANK YOU I THOUGHT WOULD NEVER SEE ONE AGAIN THANK YOU. I SEEN A MATTEL AQUARIUS MY FIRST COMPUTER I GOT TO GET ONE HELP ME IT WOULD MEAN SO MUCH TO ME. 27 October 2005, 05:33:02

Peter Cormack

It's great to see a site like this about a great old machine. I still have my UK Aquarius, 16K expansion and Data-recorder from 1984. I spent massive amounts of time programming and messing around with it. Animating the running man, finding the memory locations that changed the screen colour instantly or reset the computer, oh the joy. I think I still have programs I wrote on tape somewhere that have drop down menus (windows style) and cut and paste word pros (i was on a mission!!). Once, I even linked the remote control function on the data-recorder to a micro-switch on the door of my bedroom. When someone opened the door the tape started, loaded some data into the waiting Aquarius and a 2-tone alarm went off! Those truly were the days....... 21 October 2005, 05:46:45

Japie

hehe, nette site en het kleurtje groen vind ik ook aardig! Is je Guestbook nu NL of EN btw? :D 8 October 2005, 17:37:09

Robert

Wow! I too thought I was only person to have one. Mom and Dad bought it for me for $100 at the local Odd Lot (which is now Big Lots and Job Lot in other parts of the country). I had the Tron Deadly Discs, Utopia, the Dungeons and Dragons, and the Chess. The latter two had to be specially ordered with 14 weeks delivery from California. I also had the 16K expander which gave us a full 20K to bang around with. LOL! I still remember my Dad calling the keyboard "Chicklets." I still remember going down the ladder on level 99 of Dungeons & Dragons, a feat which took my cousin and I 14 hours straight to reach, only to be completely disappointed to learn the game just pushes you back up to level 90 when you do so. I remember printing out really bad poetry on the heat matrix printer that took paper little wider than a sales receipt, and giving it to girls in JHS. I remember programming that sample sprite graphic of the running man and programming trivia games for my little sister. I very much remember begging my Dad for cassettes longer than 30 minutes to load the data into the machine. Flood of memories here. I don't know where that machine is today, but I made it the main opening joke in my best man speech at my cousin's wedding last year. He's a computer engineer now. 25 August 2005, 16:27:55

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