Wow !!!!!!
The Sinclair ZX81 turned 30!!!!
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Those of you who go...... "WTF is a ZX81???????"......
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well here is a link ....
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12703674
I started of with one of these beauties way back and like the article said ....pestering the parents ( in my case just mum) for the puter and then the expansion pack....
I managed to write a program to play Yatzee ( if anyone remembers the game with dice....
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/....estionicon.gif) and sure enough as the article says .... lots of frustration with loading and saving to a tape drive!!!!
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Anyhoooo, here are a few pics of my ZX81 plus 16KB expansion pack....
Dug it up out of a storage box and also found my First mobile phone, an Ericsson GH 337 wit a fancy antenna
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Let me know
if I'm not the only owner of a ZX81 in Australia ( well I guess in the IIS community at least...)
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5: rem "print bartman onto the screen indefinitely"
10: print "bartman";
20: goto 10
30: end(.....mmmm did not need that I guess)
I think that was the BASIC code that I first used .... Please correct me if I'm wrong.....
Bartman