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- From: JBrandt@AAA.Uoregon.EDU (Jason)
- Newsgroups: alt.callahans
- Subject: Re: ZX-81
- Message-ID: <JBrandt-260193225421@fp1-dialin-1.uoregon.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 06:53:00 GMT
- References: <memo.898090@cix.compulink.co.uk>
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- Organization: The Polyhedron Group
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- In article <memo.898090@cix.compulink.co.uk>, cliveg@cix.compulink.co.uk
- (Clive Grace) wrote:
- >
- > In-Reply-To: <1993Jan26.020815.13101@ra.msstate.edu> jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
- >
- > >Some company came out with a 64 KB expansion, and then figured out a
- > way
- > >to connect 16 of them for a full meg of paged memory... I never tried
- > it...
- > >I think they also came out with some way to add 5.25 inch floppy drive
- > >to it and a real keyboard... About at the level of the IMSAI 4004 !
- > >i.e. add-ons that were way over-priced...
- >
- > Bought a ZX81? Naah I *built* my ZX80 -- cost me #100 -- all for the
- > benefit of having a machine that couldn't keep the screen on when
- > processing data (rectified in the ZX81 with a "slow" mode that kept the
- > screen alive). It was amazing I wasn't diagnosed epileptic then... what
- > with all that screen flashing... on a "HUGE" black and white telly --
- > programming six inches away from the screen because the aerial cable was
- > always notoriously short.
-
- Jason smirks. "Your first computer had a -screen-? Mine had a -teletype-!
- It was a kit-built Altair 8800. Ah, for the days of my youth in
- high-school, attending classes by day and running a software development
- company with a downtown Portland office by night. No kidding. That was in
- the early 1970's. Thank the creator I don't have to work with such antiques
- now!" Jason jacks in to his cyberdeck again.
-
- Hugs,
- Jason
-
- Oops, I'm giving away my age again . . .
-