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My first computer was a ZX81 with 1K of RAM, received as a soldering kit. We had the 16K extension, very sensitive and which made the system reboot at the sligh
by elvis70 6y ago
My first computer was a ZX81 with 1K of RAM, received as a soldering kit. We had the 16K extension, very sensitive and which made the system reboot at the slightest shock.
- spacedcowboy 6y agoYep, I remember it well... it’s weird that it took so long for people to realize that the solution was to decouple the two with a short n-way idc cable... It was the motion of pressing down on the keyboard (or otherwise moving it) that caused the two rigid bodies (computer and ram pack) to momentarily lose contact, and boom - bye bye work...