Subj : Re: The Documentary... To : The Lizard Master From : Sniper Date : Wed Aug 17 2005 04:20 pm To: The Lizard Master -=> The Lizard Master wrote to Sniper <=- TLM> Re: Re: The Documentary... TLM> By: Sniper to Joe Delahaye on Tue Aug 16 2005 03:46 pm > I started with a Timex Sinclar... so... :) > > I use to think it was the 1000, but after pulling it out of the box, its > the ZX-80. The difference between the ZX80/81 series was the large flat > area added to the top of the keypad. Mine only has the keypad, the > cassette and monitor plug directly into the back. I also still have a > TRS-80, and a couple of TI99/4a's, a Comador 64 and 128 still packed > away. I'd like to get a Vic 20 to add to my collection one day. :) > > My first IBM compatiable was a Tandy 1000 SL with 2 Floppy > Drives. :) TLM> Me too. Was the 1000 the flat keyboard pad? That's the one I had, I TLM> always get confused too. I later added to my collection one of the TLM> later Timex computers, actually had some nice graphics. I've got a few TLM> coco's, Vic 20's, plus 4's, C128's, C64's, Amigas, Ataris. I need to TLM> go through my closet and post my collection one day. I got from that, TLM> to selling it or throwing it all out, all the time. The 1000 has the flat keypad , with an attached box thing about 3 to 4" on top of the keypad. THe ZX80/81 was just the keypad, no extension. I haven't found a picture of the old ZX80 or 81, just the 1000 which was the more famous. I guess I should go unpack the thing and take some pictures of it. :) TLM> My first PC was a 286 compatible with an EGA monitor and a 40 meg HD. TLM> Might ahve been 20, can't remember. I orginally purchased the SL 1000 with the dual floppy drives and later added 2 RLL drives, both 20 megs in that system... Later found a 40 meg hard card (IDE) that I put in that same system. Along with my 2400 baud modem became my first BBS computer. I then got my hands on a DTK 286 machine with a meg of memory. I moved the 40 meg Hard Card and the 2 RLL drives into it, and thus began my journey into the high tech world of computers. :) Sniper Killed In Action BBS, telnet://kiabbs.org Home of the Unofficial SynchroNet Support Network. download the info pack at any of the below sites: http://www.chcomputer.net/USSNET.ZIP or http://www.ussnet.org .... "It's time we stopped reacting and started acting." - Hague --- MultiMail/Linux v0.45 --- Synchronet 3.12a-Win32 NewsLink 1.83 * Killed In Action - Valdosta, Ga - telnet://kiabbs.org .