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PHIL_TC:
--- Quote from: Chipaccrual on March 19, 2012, 16:21:51 PM ---
Which would be an improvement on the way Des is currently running the site on one of his old laptops. ;D
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A ZX Spectrum WITH a built in monitor :o OH MY... Des first dibs please, little bit aroused :)
Paulie_D:
--- Quote from: PHIL_TC on March 19, 2012, 16:24:45 PM ---
A ZX Spectrum WITH a built in monitor
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LUXURY!
I remember my dad bringing home the, I think, ZX80 (maybe 81) that you had to plugged into the telly to see a screen...and then you had to type the program..that ran once (if you made no mistakes) and then it forgot as it had no internal memory.
Oh...and yes, we did have Pong.
AMRN:
Those were the days - had a ZX81 with 1k of RAM, and had to plug it into the TV. Spent hours typing in BASIC scripts copied from magazines, and then several more hours searching for the frikkin "Syntax Error".
It was a Happy Xmas when I got a RAM upgrade (a 16K Panda that resembled a house brick and weighed around half a ton, and plugged into the back, but you couldn"t knock the table or it would disconnect), and an full size external keyboard with rubber keys (I say external literally - had to take the gubbins out of the ZX81 box and rebuild them inside the new keyboard) - so much better than the original touch pad keys. The biggest keyboard issue was the lack of key repetition.
These were the days when copying a game meant typing in the BASIC programme by hand, then saving it to tape on an attached tape recorder.... then taking that tape and putting it in my Dad"s state of the art Amstrad stereo that had TWO cassette decks and enabled tape-to-tape recording!
Oh the heady days.
Paulie_D:
I first encountered "computing" at senior school where we had to program with punch tape on giant keyboard machines.
The school had the benefit as it had THE computer for the local council located on it"s premises. That meant we only had access on certain days as, on the others, it was used to work out salaries & the rates bills.
The fun part was working out the code so that the punched holes would spell put dirty words on the tape. You then made it repeat hundreds of times onto tape which could then throw like streamers.
Heady days indeed.
HaworthBantam:
--- Quote from: PHIL_TC on March 19, 2012, 16:24:45 PM ---
--- Quote from: Chipaccrual on March 19, 2012, 16:21:51 PM ---
Which would be an improvement on the way Des is currently running the site on one of his old laptops. ;D
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A ZX Spectrum WITH a built in monitor :o OH MY... Des first dibs please, little bit aroused :)
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Oh, wow, that"s marvi. I don"t think I"m quite "aroused", but I"m certainly impressed.
My first, erm, computer... http://oldcomputers.net/osi-600.html
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