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To elaborate your point every ZX Spectrum came with a detailed manual from which you could learn Basic. And in the back it had a ascii table with all the Z80 i
by midnightclubbed 5y ago
To elaborate your point every ZX Spectrum came with a detailed manual from which you could learn Basic.
And in the back it had a ascii table with all the Z80 instruction codes - so once you had basic down you could try assembly!
- timthorn 5y agoThe keyboard itself was almost the Spectrum's own manual, listing all the BASIC keywords - because to enter one of the keywords, you just typed the key with that label. That made programming possible for a preschooler.
- rodgerd 5y agoMore than just that; the block diagram and a lucid explantion of floating point mathematics that has lasted me for 40 years.