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- From: d2hacker@dtek.chalmers.se (Magnus Hacker)
- Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.demos
- Subject: Re: Music and Code from Demos
- Message-ID: <d2hacker.722155564@dtek.chalmers.se>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 06:46:04 GMT
- References: <1992Nov13.142612.8928@daimi.aau.dk> <1992Nov14.153146.4287@crash> <1979@lysator.liu.se> <Bxtuvy.4tK@csugrad.cs.vt.edu>
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- franklin@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (John Franklin) writes:
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- >Um... no. The Timex Sinclair 1000 was a door wedge sized and shaped
- >computer with a membrane keyboard and came with 2K of memory. You could
- >pump it up to a whopping 16K with an add on pack and you could store
- >your programs with any audio cassette recorder that had an input jack.
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- >The 128K machine that you're thinking of is a Cray in comparison.
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- Could this be the (in)famous ZX80? (or was it ZX81?)
- I remember I was about to buy one of those, but my eyes fell
- on a VIC20 instead..
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- Just think about it... 3.5 kilobytes of RAM!
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- Sigh... those were the days...
- --
- Magnus Hacker, d2hacker@dtek.chalmers.se
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- Is this my signature?
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