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when i look back at those machines im surprised people were willing to learn to use them.
by skeezyboy 1y ago
when i look back at those machines im surprised people were willing to learn to use them.
- bzzzt 1y agoThere was nothing better available at that time and there was a lot less to learn. The entire BIOS and BASIC interpreter of the ZX80 fitted in 4Kb...
- skeezyboy 1y agohow much would another stick of ram have been? or at least an onboard gpu
- bzzzt 1y agoThere were no sticks then, just RAM chips on the mainboard or on an expansion card fitted in the back of the computer. ZX80 was built to cost 100GBP, a big chunk of that was the memory since it used expensive SRAM chips.