Subj : Re: ZX Gear
To   : Jeff
From : Avon
Date : Fri Jan 07 2022 15:31:50

On 06 Jan 2022 at 08:17p, Jeff pondered and said...
 
 Je>  Av> I have a ZX81 upstairs with a soldered RAM pack to avoid the wobblies
 Je> 
 Je> Oh, man, that RAM pack was definitely party to many a love-hate
 Je> relationship.

It was :) So many people lost good programs when that sucker burped :)

 Je> What was the home computer scene like for you in the early 80s?

Well for me it was TRS-80 and a machine put out by an Australian entrepreneur called Dick Smith called the System 80, you can find images on Google.
The it was into Apple IIe... all of these were at my high school.

At home I started with the ZX81 and did a lot of typing in code to get it to do stuff, then moved onto a BBC Micro B which lasted until I left home.

At uni it was early Apple MACs then in the early 90s I bought my first home PC which was a 386 chip, that was about the time I was using Telix and starting to dial BBS and then run my own :)

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