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- From: wchucky@ocf.berkeley.edu (Chuck Woo)
- Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.demos
- Subject: Re: Music and Code from Demos
- Date: 20 Nov 1992 07:19:47 GMT
- Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
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- In article <Paul_Trauth.13b6@agwbbs.new-orleans.LA.US> Paul_Trauth@agwbbs.new-orleans.LA.US (Paul Trauth) writes:
- > WW> that's right, there was a predecessor to the zx81... *groan* hey,
- > WW> Paul,
- > WW> why not remind us of the differences?
- >Why not. Hey people, just imagine trying to CODE anything on this...
- >Both had a Z80 for the CPU. I think. I only knew BASIC at this point, ML
- >looked like deep magic to me back then...
-
- that's right, a Zilog z80. probably running at 1E-1000 Hz. I guess you've
- tried reading one of those assembler books for it? pretty heady stuff when
- you're only 12 or 13 year old... (at least back then :)
-
- >Yes. 1k. This is not a typo. And yes, it was small.
- >The '81 (marketed in the US by Timex as the Timex/Sinclair 1000) was a bit
- >less hellish. it had, um 8k ROM and 4k RAM.
-
- nope, only 2k ram!
-
- >I still have nightmares about that flat plastic "keyboard" and the twenty
- >different cursors indicating which of too many modes the keyboard would be
- >interpreted... Eeeek.
-
- hey, still got yours? the cable for my keyboard cracked, and I can't find
- a replacement... :)
-
- anyway, let's stop this thread before more people get depressed and commit
- hara kiri!
-
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