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The ZX80 manuals and inserts

81 points by leoferres 9y ago

coroxout 9y ago
Good stuff, thanks! If you're looking for somewhere else to archive them, World of Spectrum might be interested. They have ZX80 and ZX81 books and software as well as Spectrum - and I don't see these listed. http://www.worldofspectrum.org/archive.html http://www.worldofspectrum.org/archive.html http://www.worldofspectrum.org/books.html http://www.worldofspectrum.org/books.html Thank you for scanning these!
- leoferres 9y ago
  Great suggestion. Thanks!
  - Zardoz84 9y ago
    Bad sugestion! Look at this : https://www.reddit.com/r/zxspectrum/comments/6flol2/world_of_spectrum_website_is_down/ https://www.reddit.com/r/zxspectrum/comments/6flol2/world_of...
    - leoferres 9y ago
      hehe. Well, that's that. :)
    - coroxout 9y ago
      Huh. I didn't know about that. Thanks for the info. I don't know anything about the current maintainer or any of these disputes but I hope WOS keeps going; it's been going for over 20 years and amassed a lot of good stuff in that time.
      - Zardoz84 9y ago
        Looks that the original maintainer get out, and the actual maintainer is in middle of the Vega plus torment. At least archive.org would keep a copy of WoS
- andyjohnson0 9y ago
  Maybe archive.org would be a better long-term home?
YouKnowBetter 9y ago
Title should be: The (ZX80 game) Lamo-Lem Manual and Inserts Nothing but a lovely picture of the ZX80 behind that link. Still, I appriciate everything about the ZX80 as it was my first big love.
- jacquesm 9y ago
  Scroll down a bit there are links to high-res scans in pdf format.
jacknews 9y ago
superb, thanks! I also love the TV. And you'll find the circuit board inside the zx80 looks quite cool too, with hand-drawn curvy traces etc.
- leoferres 9y ago
  I'll take a picture and post it as well. Thanks.
jacquesm 9y ago
Hm, inspiring. I think I still may have an original op code card for the 6809 somewhere.
cjsuk 9y ago
If you want you can build your own too! http://searle.hostei.com/grant/zx80/zx80.html http://searle.hostei.com/grant/zx80/zx80.html
Theodores 9y ago
Well there was no cassette with the ZX81, free in the box. However the artwork on the manual was pretty good: http://www.worldofspectrum.org/ZX81BasicProgramming/ http://www.worldofspectrum.org/ZX81BasicProgramming/
- ourcat 9y ago
  I still have that somewhere.
noir_lord 9y ago
The ZX80 is the reason I work as a programmer today. My father bought one in late 1986, I ran my first program in 1987 (at 7) and I've been programming something pretty much (and literally) every day since. I think at one point or another I owned all of the Sinclair's including the +3 with the strange floppy disks except the QL which I lusted over but we couldn't afford. By the time we could afford a better family PC the world had moved and it was an IBM Olivetti Clone where I met Turbo Pascal (and beginning my life long admiration of Anders Hejlsberg, I don't think any single developer has had such a big impact on my progression as a developer without knowing I exist everything he's ever produced or worked on has fit the way I think about programming from TP to TS - even if you aren't a fan of Turbo Pascal, Delphi, C# or TypeScript he's worth watching/listening to, the obvious joy and passion he takes in technology is inspiring since he's been doing it since I was in Nursery) All because my father decided after seeing a segment on Tomorrows World that these "computer things might stick around" and bought a second hand one on a whim. Funny the pattern your life can take from the smallest of decisions by someone else.
ourcat 9y ago
I still have my ZX81, thermal printer and 16K RAM Pack. That RAM Pack was my earliest memory. ;)
FrankBlack 9y ago
My very first computer purchase was a ZX81 with 16K memory expansion and "high resolution" graphics expansion. Cost a bunch, everything was a tad confusing, crappy graphics looked crappier on a tiny black and white television, loading a cassette took more than 20 minutes... but it got me started in my career. Best purchase ever.

81 points by leoferres 9y ago

Good stuff, thanks! If you're looking for somewhere else to archive them, World of Spectrum might be interested. They have ZX80 and ZX81 books and software as well as Spectrum - and I don't see these listed. http://www.worldofspectrum.org/archive.html http://www.worldofspectrum.org/archive.html http://www.worldofspectrum.org/books.html http://www.worldofspectrum.org/books.html Thank you for scanning these!

leoferres 9y ago
Great suggestion. Thanks!
- Zardoz84 9y ago
  Bad sugestion! Look at this : https://www.reddit.com/r/zxspectrum/comments/6flol2/world_of_spectrum_website_is_down/ https://www.reddit.com/r/zxspectrum/comments/6flol2/world_of...
  - leoferres 9y ago
    hehe. Well, that's that. :)
  - coroxout 9y ago
    Huh. I didn't know about that. Thanks for the info. I don't know anything about the current maintainer or any of these disputes but I hope WOS keeps going; it's been going for over 20 years and amassed a lot of good stuff in that time.
    - Zardoz84 9y ago
      Looks that the original maintainer get out, and the actual maintainer is in middle of the Vega plus torment. At least archive.org would keep a copy of WoS
andyjohnson0 9y ago
Maybe archive.org would be a better long-term home?

YouKnowBetter 9y ago

Title should be: The (ZX80 game) Lamo-Lem Manual and Inserts Nothing but a lovely picture of the ZX80 behind that link. Still, I appriciate everything about the ZX80 as it was my first big love.

jacquesm 9y ago
Scroll down a bit there are links to high-res scans in pdf format.

jacknews 9y ago

superb, thanks! I also love the TV. And you'll find the circuit board inside the zx80 looks quite cool too, with hand-drawn curvy traces etc.

leoferres 9y ago
I'll take a picture and post it as well. Thanks.

jacquesm 9y ago

Hm, inspiring. I think I still may have an original op code card for the 6809 somewhere.

cjsuk 9y ago

If you want you can build your own too! http://searle.hostei.com/grant/zx80/zx80.html http://searle.hostei.com/grant/zx80/zx80.html

Theodores 9y ago

Well there was no cassette with the ZX81, free in the box. However the artwork on the manual was pretty good: http://www.worldofspectrum.org/ZX81BasicProgramming/ http://www.worldofspectrum.org/ZX81BasicProgramming/

ourcat 9y ago
I still have that somewhere.

noir_lord 9y ago

The ZX80 is the reason I work as a programmer today. My father bought one in late 1986, I ran my first program in 1987 (at 7) and I've been programming something pretty much (and literally) every day since. I think at one point or another I owned all of the Sinclair's including the +3 with the strange floppy disks except the QL which I lusted over but we couldn't afford. By the time we could afford a better family PC the world had moved and it was an IBM Olivetti Clone where I met Turbo Pascal (and beginning my life long admiration of Anders Hejlsberg, I don't think any single developer has had such a big impact on my progression as a developer without knowing I exist everything he's ever produced or worked on has fit the way I think about programming from TP to TS - even if you aren't a fan of Turbo Pascal, Delphi, C# or TypeScript he's worth watching/listening to, the obvious joy and passion he takes in technology is inspiring since he's been doing it since I was in Nursery) All because my father decided after seeing a segment on Tomorrows World that these "computer things might stick around" and bought a second hand one on a whim. Funny the pattern your life can take from the smallest of decisions by someone else.

ourcat 9y ago

I still have my ZX81, thermal printer and 16K RAM Pack. That RAM Pack was my earliest memory. ;)

FrankBlack 9y ago

My very first computer purchase was a ZX81 with 16K memory expansion and "high resolution" graphics expansion. Cost a bunch, everything was a tad confusing, crappy graphics looked crappier on a tiny black and white television, loading a cassette took more than 20 minutes... but it got me started in my career. Best purchase ever.