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Haha! Brings back memories of typing in reams and reams and reams of Hexadecimal into my Sinclair ZX81, back in the day. That fisking ZX81 - it was fun, but wi
by scarygliders 12y ago
Haha! Brings back memories of typing in reams and reams and reams of Hexadecimal into my Sinclair ZX81, back in the day.
That fisking ZX81 - it was fun, but with the bulky 16K RAM Pack slotted in behind it, made using it a precarious pastime.
One little knock, and 99% of the time the Ram Pack edge connector momentarilly lost a contact on one of the lines and the ZX81 would crash hard - and there went 2 hours of carefully typed in (on a membrane keyboard :D ) hexadecimal code, and much grinding and gnashing of teeth a moment later after a stunned, blank stare ;)
- baudehlo 12y agoThe ZX80 was even worse. You had to type fast, because the thing overheated real quick, and you couldn't type fast because the keyboard was just terrible. I remember only getting 1 program fully typed before the overheat moment. It ran for about 2 minutes before BOOM. Great memories.
- christoph 12y agoI had really fond memories of books like these: http://www.acornelectron.co.uk/covl/usborne/lc-myst.jpg http://www.acornelectron.co.uk/covl/usborne/lc-myst.jpg Typing them in on the thick rubber keys of my 48k Spectrum. I'm sure there were quite a few different titles in the series, but I can't seem to find them at the moment. I always remember it was great how they had melded the book into the game, so they both supported each other.