At the risk of seeming otiose or elliptical ...

Aha, happy, happy days. I had a similar setup (Atari 400 first, though, then the 800, and only one 810). The 850 also has a Centronics interface on it, good enough for my Epson RX80 printer. And I remember the fun I had building a RTTY decoder from "Electronics and Music Maker" magazine (all parts from Maplin electronics) and hooking it up to a SW receiver from Waters and Stanton Radio shop (£100!). I could read all the RTTY radio news - IRNA, TASS etc ... This was in early 1986, so I got the news about Challenger, Chernobyl etc before it was on the telly. I remember printing off the Chernobyl news story and running downstairs shouting "Mum, dad! A nuclear reactor's blown up!". I use XFormer these days to still play the occasional game of Star Raiders.

"Bussard" ... as in "ramjet"? Cool! "Google in spa-a-a-ace!"

Ooops, should have read the article first ... :-S

Stephen Fry mentioned it in his book, "The Liar" - something which someone at the Daily Telegraph has also remembered.

My girlfriend and I did some volunteer work at St Tiggywinkles in the early 90s during the summer. It was great fun and very satisfying, but I will never, ever forget the smell of a room full of incontinent hedgehogs on a hot July afternoon ...