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- From: franklin@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (John Franklin)
- Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.demos
- Subject: Re: Music and Code from Demos
- Message-ID: <By4HFs.CMC@csugrad.cs.vt.edu>
- Date: 22 Nov 92 14:55:04 GMT
- References: <1979@lysator.liu.se> <Bxtuvy.4tK@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> <d2hacker.722155564@dtek.chalmers.se>
- Organization: Virginia Tech Computer Science Dept, Blacksburg, VA
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- In article <d2hacker.722155564@dtek.chalmers.se> d2hacker@dtek.chalmers.se (Magnus Hacker) writes:
- >franklin@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (John Franklin) writes:
- >
- >>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.
- >
- >>The 128K machine that you're thinking of is a Cray in comparison.
- >
- >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..
-
- Err... I think they were different machines. I seem to recall from about
- 10 years ago checking out a book from the public library called "Programs
- for the ZX80" or something like that. It also said, "WORKS ON A TIMEX
- SINCLAIR 1000!" They were compatible, but different machines.
-
- >
- >Just think about it... 3.5 kilobytes of RAM!
- >
- >Sigh... those were the days...
-
- There were hacks that you COULD do with it... A friend of mine did a
- hardware hack on with with his VCR to bypass the copy protection on
- video tapes... I guess that would be the first (and probably the only!) demo
- ever done with it!
-
- jf
- --
- John Franklin
- franklin@csugrad.cs.vt.edu
- franklin@elfie.async.vt.edu
-