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It is thirty years* (yesterday, in actual fact) since the launch of the ZX81.  Here is a more glowing report (and a great website). * And still going strong - on eBay, at least.
If you don't inspect ... don't expect.
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Meanwhile, there's a nice (in original box, etc.) ZX80 on eBay at the moment. With two days still to go, the bidding stands at £ 106.
If you don't inspect ... don't expect.
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Now up to £ 218 ... with five hours still to go!
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Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own.
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Surely you remember?
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The ZX80 went for £ 247. But don't worry, there are a couple more listed now; including one that the guy is asking only £ 495 for "Buy It Now". Another guy has a ZX80 (but not "mint") currently at £ 50, a QL sitting at £ 60 (both with three days still to go), and a Z88 at £ 21 (with four days still to go).
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Quite frankly I hated computers, probably because everyone else I worked with seemed to know far more about them than I did. (They were more interested in them as well.) I understood all other forms of engineering but coming from hands-on engineering, computers seemed abstract to me. However the first one I worked with was a Burroughs Mainframe and after that came DEC PDP 11s with UNIX operating systems. I can remember the reel to reel tape drives, Winchester disc drives and all the air conditioning temperature control and standby power from that era, but that’s about all. I suppose a modern PC would have more computing power now.
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While we are reminiscing, while at University I started to play around with the university computer* as I had some data I wanted to analyse I formatted an array in my programme and took the punch cards to the data room to have them input in to the array. The person at the desk just laughed, I had formatted the array 512 by 1024. This was hundreds of times bigger then the whole core memory of the computer. Yes magnetic beads on wire type memory.
An' you try tellin' t' kids of today that, they won't believe you.
RoJo
*Yes there was one for the university IBM370 if I remember right. Electrical engineering had their own PDP-11 but for post grads only.
My spelling is not bad. I am typing this on a Medigenic keyboard and I blame that for all my typos.
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Yes, Robert ... but did you buy a ZX80?
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ZX81 actually.
But in the Marconi apprentice hostel we had a Nascom 2
RoJo
Last edited by RoJo; 10/03/11 2:13 PM.
My spelling is not bad. I am typing this on a Medigenic keyboard and I blame that for all my typos.
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