Subj : What's in your attic?
To   : Bencollver
From : nelgin
Date : Wed Oct 11 2023 10:45:33

  Re: What's in your attic?
  By: Bencollver to nelgin on Mon Oct 09 2023 14:38:08

 > Awesome that you are restoring a ZX Spectrum.  I had a friend who did
 > that.  He said the older hardware is easier to repair, connect to a
 > scope, etc.  Reminds me of things i have heard from mechanics about
 > older cars.

I also have a Commodore 64 in pieces along with a BBC Micro. I'll get around to finishing them one day.

 > I wrote some clever code in my youth, a mixture of BASIC and assembly.
 > It was stored on floppy disks, and at some point after college i lost
 > those floppies.  I don't even remember how i lost them, but with them
 > i lost all that code.

yeah, it sucks. The good thing is, we learn a lot about programming since being kids so I'm sure we'd write more reusable, efficient code. I know mine wasn't the best and I could have done better.

 > I remember playing arcade-style games on a Vic20 loaded from cassette.

Yup, and then there were the cartridges that loaded instantly but were may more expensive and you couldn't copy them.

 > full-speed over a serial connection to my Linux system.  Some day i
 > plan to build a virtual modem using a Raspberry PI so i can "dial in"
 > to an Internet BBS from DOS hardware using a WIFI network.

Why bother? You can use a ESP8266 wifi development board and a RS232 to TTL board and some free firmware.

You will need an Arduino to program the device unless you can figure out how to connect an rpi to do the same job. If you don't have one then I can probably program one for you.

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