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- From: kmeyers@nyx.cs.du.edu (Karl Meyers)
- Subject: Re: ZX-81 was Re: Announcement!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.161353.24265@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 16:13:53 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan26.020815.13101@ra.msstate.edu> jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce) writes:
- > Mine was a Sinclair ZX-81. I mail ordered mine for $100.00 .
- >The Timex 1000 came out later. Mine had only 1 Kb of ram and I later
- >bought the 16 Kb expansion for it. Had to hold the expansion on with
- >a rubber band or it would wobble and crash the computer. Why they put
- >an edge connector on the expansion and not on the machine, I'll never know.
-
- I remember my ZX81 fondly. That was one computer that was a real
- challenge to use...I mean, you can only do so much with 16K, y'know. :)
- I really never had any trouble with my RAMpack, though. Guess I got
- lucky. :)
-
- > Some company came out with a 64 KB expansion, and then figured out a way
- >to connect 16 of them for a full meg of paged memory... I never tried it...
- >I think they also came out with some way to add 5.25 inch floppy drive
- >to it and a real keyboard... About at the level of the IMSAI 4004 !
- >i.e. add-ons that were way over-priced...
-
- I got one of the keyboards for it (which made things easier) - but then
- my system decided to up and crash for good. *Sigh* So much for "no
- thrills computing". :)
-
- Come to think of it, I destroyed the first two computers I had - my ZX81,
- and my TI 99/4a. I still have my C=64, and it's still going strong.
- Never mind the fact that I use an IBM-compat for most stuff nowadays. :)
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