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Great Link Rob
Ah sweet nostalgia. Remember this? http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=181 I can remember going down the local electrical dept every saturday morning so I (along wih a pile of other geeky kids) could annoy the hell out of the sales assistants by playing with all these really expensive computers. The Osborne1 looked like something out of a Bond movie. |
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Z80 programming
Preceding probably all of those the first computer I ever had was a Sinclair ZX80. It was little more than a slab of plastic with a microchip embedded into it. My dad actually bought it thinking that he might be able to do his company accounts on it, but quickly found it to be totally useless. I used it a little, and managed to type in a few BASIC programs from the user manual, including one called "nibble the cheese". I eventually sold it to an electronics enthusiast friend in the late 1980s, but I wish I'd hung onto it now because I'm sure it would be a collectors item. Plenty of ZX81s were made, but hardly any ZX80s. - Bob |
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Window for BBC
Programming on BBC reminds me of one the greatest efforts I put into it...guess for what? I tried to write Window 1.0 (mind you there's no 's') for the BBC. It was during my early days when I was learning Windows, but was quite unhappy with the fact that there's no such GUI for the BBC. So,why not write it urself. Well, what I ended up with is not a GUI, but more of a collection of programs operable from a master program. I used PRINT TAB a lot. And it even had a clock...it works, but u need to insert the time while starting it. Those were such nice days!!! Will share more of my BBC escapades someday. |
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Pre-windoze
I wrote a similar graphical interface, based on the GEM desktop, using the AMX mouse. I did a little wordprocessor, database and graph plotting program, and would use it for writing school essays. - Bob |
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