Thread: Interesting, Odd or Funny Pics.

Originally Posted by lebanon

I still have the spectrum ZX somewhere in the workshop, used to spend hours using it. Who had it?

I had the little ZX80? (the white one) I also had the 16K black memory expansion module!

see here

Fraser

Originally Posted by lebanon

I still have the spectrum ZX somewhere in the workshop, used to spend hours using it. Who had it?

The first one we had was the Texas Instruments TI99/4A.
It was a great machine and I remember reading out hundreds of lines of BASIC and my brother would punch it in so we could play pathetic games that generally failed because we had entered the data incorrectly.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments_TI-99/4A

just think of all the great leaps in computer technology since that box and monitor were created---

and then there's the keyboard.

Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

just think of all the great leaps in computer technology since that box and monitor were created---

and then there's the keyboard.

What Monitor, its a TV, so that's something tats gone backwards LOL

Originally Posted by 85 county

What Monitor, its a TV, so that's something tats gone backwards LOL

Yep. Had to plug in an external RF modulator.

Originally Posted by korg20000bc

The first one we had was the Texas Instruments TI99/4A.
It was a great machine and I remember reading out hundreds of lines of BASIC and my brother would punch it in so we could play pathetic games that generally failed because we had entered the data incorrectly.

Texas Instruments TI-99/4A - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sintax error line 83?
You would spend more time fixing up your data entry mistakes than playing the game. It was a real bugger when you forgot to save it to the Cassette tape.
My first PC was the RadioShack MC10, with the 8K memory expansion, then a TRS80 after that.

One of my friends had the Dick Smith Wizzard:

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