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Hit the return key and it's memory has gorn, I feel like that me'sen somedays.
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£499 Toots in 1977?? I cannot do the maths but I would say that is around £2500 now?
What a brilliant clip and maybe they should show this at schools as a reminder of how unlucky our generation were.
£2500 now would buy you a top notch laptop, an Apple I Phone,a 50 inch Samsung flat screen HD telly, and probably a bit of change left for a spa weekend for two. :lol:
What a brilliant clip and maybe they should show this at schools as a reminder of how unlucky our generation were.
£2500 now would buy you a top notch laptop, an Apple I Phone,a 50 inch Samsung flat screen HD telly, and probably a bit of change left for a spa weekend for two. :lol:
Quote by GnV
maybe they should show this at schools as a reminder of how unlucky our generation were.
I think our generation were extremely lucky to have seen the progress of this technology and I certainly profited from it.
I'm glad I was there at the start so I can appreciate where it all came from...
I can appreciate doing my punch cards
I can appreciate playing noughts and crosses with a computer that took 5 minutes to make a move (Stafford university main frame)
We had the best of it all!
And I can recall writing Monopoly on a ZX81 with the optional 16k Memotech RAM pack and saved to tape cassette. It took 20 minutes to load the program by which time you realised the RAM pack/ZX81 had suffered the infamous 'ram pack wobble' and had crashed leaving you no option but to start it all over again....
And then printing out the whole program listing on the Sinclair thermal printer for debugging...
Happy days.
And then printing out the whole program listing on the Sinclair thermal printer for debugging...
Happy days.
Quote by GnV
And I can recall writing Monopoly on a ZX81 with the optional 16k Memotech RAM pack and saved to tape cassette. It took 20 minutes to load the program by which time you realised the RAM pack/ZX81 had suffered the infamous 'ram pack wobble' and had crashed leaving you no option but to start it all over again....
And then printing out the whole program listing on the Sinclair thermal printer for debugging...
Happy days.
You saddo.
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The TRS 80 was nicknamed IIRC the Trash 80 :lol2:
We had all singing all dancing BBC Model B computers when I was at school :smug:
We had all singing all dancing BBC Model B computers when I was at school :smug:
Quote by GnV
And I can recall writing Monopoly on a ZX81 with the optional 16k Memotech RAM pack and saved to tape cassette. It took 20 minutes to load the program by which time you realised the RAM pack/ZX81 had suffered the infamous 'ram pack wobble' and had crashed leaving you no option but to start it all over again....
And then printing out the whole program listing on the Sinclair thermal printer for debugging...
Happy days.
Bet you had a Sinclair C5 for transport back then too
Quote by VoyeurJ
I've perhaps sadly re bought all my kit from my youth days .. Zx81 with 16k ram pack, still print every now and then for that smell, xz spectrum, Commodore 64 and an Amiga all boxed in a cupboard. Great times
My man still has his orignal TRS 80 along with a ZX80 with the latter looking like nothing more than a large calculator. We do have a binatone bat and ball tennis thing which sometimes gets an airing but I have tried on numerous occasions to take them all to landfill but he blathers on about them being of some use one day (doorstop comes to mind)
Nothing but dust collectors are they.
