neil Posted 11 February 2004 Share Posted 11 February 2004 One of my colleagues just forwarded me this link ... http://zxspectrum.cjb.net/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Levene Posted 11 February 2004 Share Posted 11 February 2004 One of my colleagues just forwarded me this link ...http://zxspectrum.cjb.net/ Spectrum? That's one of those flash new-fangled colour thingies isn't it. I'm sticking with my ZX81 (with it's door-stop of a 16k ram-pack). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Harris Posted 11 February 2004 Share Posted 11 February 2004 Velcro was invented to stop ram-pack wobble. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobStubbs Posted 12 February 2004 Share Posted 12 February 2004 Ian, Still didn't stop the blinking thing crashing though - either that or midway through loading a game off cassette I think I might still have my old (original) spectrum in the loft - must be able to get a few quid on ebay for it Rob. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobertBeard Posted 17 February 2004 Share Posted 17 February 2004 I remember spending all night copying in a program which was double dutch to me and even then I had to debug it (correct the typos!) before it would run. Then something resembling a clock face appeared - then I had to turn it off and go to bed - wonderful My first real foray was when I bought an early IBM compatible PC in late 1984/early 1985 called an Advance 86B, made by Ferranti which was sold by W H Smith. It turned out that the processor was an Intel 8086 which was the same as my then employer had paid hundreds of thousands of pounds, a few years earlier, to have at the core of his wide area network. Disk drives at £250k a throw or thereabouts etc - the girls in the office did their knitting while it took 3/4's of an hour to process after they had entered everything I was quite good at DOS but always hated programming, I liked Lotus 123 Macros Taking work home in those days was like moving house with system unit, screen, keyboard, wide matrix printer, box of cables & manuals and sprocketed paper! Life improved a bit when Compaq invented luggables Anyone remember "Demented Woodpeckers"? - wheel printers attached to word processors - we'd probably compare them to an Uzi or such like. I wish I'd kept an IBM golf ball typewriter - probably be a collectors item by now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjb1604 Posted 17 February 2004 Share Posted 17 February 2004 Flat bed plotters - glad those disappeared Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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