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My father's first computer was a Sinclair ZX81, powered by a Z80. He still has it at home. I tried getting it working a few years ago, but it wouldn't work wit
by toomanybeersies 8y ago
My father's first computer was a Sinclair ZX81, powered by a Z80. He still has it at home.
I tried getting it working a few years ago, but it wouldn't work with the TV. I wasn't really interested enough to get an old TV to use with it. Pretty amazing though, not many people are able to say they still have their first computer.
- DEADBEEFC0FFEE 8y agoI still have my ZX81. My dad bought it for the family when I was 11. It was to me the most anazing and fascinating thing. It absorbed my attention completely. I remember handwriting code on the bus to school.
- Wildgoose 8y agoI still have my 6502 based Acorn Atom, bought in 1980, a predecessor to the BBC computer.
- sedatk 8y agoI still have my first computer, Amstrad CPC464 running fine today. It boasts a Z80 too.
- adamkruszewski 8y agoI still have a Timex 2048 (a clone of Sinclair ZX Spectrum). It is not the first Spectrum I used, but first I owned. It works still and I have a family tradition of plugging it into our TV set each Christmas and playing the games we have grown up with. Years ago I could use my PC workstation to "play" tape recordings into it but nowadays you have to use an Android phone [1] as I think there is too much of sound filtering built in and the tapes just don't load. [1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dk.rift.tzxdroid https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dk.rift.tzxdro...
- digi_owl 8y agohttp://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=1168 http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=1168 I think my dad still have it in the basement, but i recall he never got much out of it.
- jacquesm 8y agoPut the input to the TV modulator into something like this: https://sewelldirect.com/composite-rca-to-vga-converter https://sewelldirect.com/composite-rca-to-vga-converter