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Article #345132Re: Colossal Cave Adventure - the granddaddy of them all
From: Jeffrey DeWitt
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 00:31
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 00:31
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Ed Edelenbos wrote: > "Vince" <vmelia@nospamblueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message > news:C%Y5h.200638$3D1.74953@fe3.news.blueyonder.co.uk... > >>"Jeffrey DeWitt" wrote >> >> >>>I used to have a ZX-80, (actually I still have it in a box somewhere), >>>the predecessor to the ZX-Spectrum, pretty cool little machine for it's >>>time, and the price was right, about $100. >> >>There was a ZX81 inbetween the two (in the UK at least). >> > > > It was the Timex-Sinclair 1000, 1500, and I forget the number that was the > US version of the Spectrum... 2068 or some such. They were great machines. > > Ed > > Your right, mine was a ZX-81, as I recall the ZX-80 was white... ahh I just googled it. Yes the ZX-80 was white, the ZX-81 was black and much cheaper, and they both used the Z-80 processor. http://oldcomputers.net/zx80.html Mine was fully expanded with the 16k RAM pack and the thermal printer, I even modified it so I could use a real keyboard... although my typing even then was much faster than the system could handle. Jeff DeWitt
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newscon06.news.prodigy.net!prodigy.net!news-east.rr.com!news-wrt-01.southeast.rr.com!news-wrt-01.tampabay.rr.com!news-feed-01.tampabay.rr.com!news.rr.com!news-post.tampabay.rr.com!tornado.southeast.rr.com.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey DeWitt <JeffDeWitt@nc.rr.com> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure Subject: Re: Colossal Cave Adventure - the granddaddy of them all References: <AXN5h.21962$nG1.2701@tornado.southeast.rr.com> <4557b49f_2@mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com> <3QO5h.21965$nG1.11548@tornado.southeast.rr.com> <C%Y5h.200638$3D1.74953@fe3.news.blueyonder.co.uk> <Y5KdnYD0oot6_8XYnZ2dnUVZ_u-dnZ2d@speakeasy.net> In-Reply-To: <Y5KdnYD0oot6_8XYnZ2dnUVZ_u-dnZ2d@speakeasy.net> Lines: 32 Message-ID: <M786h.22249$nG1.13047@tornado.southeast.rr.com> Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 00:31:40 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.163.52.111 X-Complaints-To: abuse@rr.com X-Trace: tornado.southeast.rr.com 1163464300 24.163.52.111 (Mon, 13 Nov 2006 19:31:40 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 19:31:40 EST Organization: Road Runner High Speed Online http://www.rr.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit