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- From: u5a77@cc.keele.ac.uk (A Halliwell)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sinclair,comp.sys.cbm,comp.sys.tandy,alt.folklore.computers
- Subject: Re: Neat hack proposal for old machines...
- Date: 8 Feb 1996 20:45:09 GMT
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- Bob Manners (rjm@swift.eng.ox.ac.uk) wrote:
- : Wouldn't be the first time I was wrong! I thought the Speccy could
- : read ZX81 tapes? Maybe it has a backwards compatibility mode? Seems
- : unlikely for Sinclair to do this though ...
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- Nope. They were totally incompatible.
- Even the character sets were different (the character set started at '0' on
- the ZX81. The Speccy had ascii characters.
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