🚀 go-pugleaf

On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 00:31:40 GMT, Jeffrey DeWitt
<JeffDeWitt@nc.rr.com> wrote:

>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

I learned assembly programming on that thing, even hand assembled the
durn things.  Those programs seemed to run faster than any of my
Windows progs do now...I had more trouble slowing my pacmen down on
the ZX81 than I did speading them up in windows.  Its a funny old
world...