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Originally Posted by CraigS
No Zx81 .. but I was a Dick Smith Mini Scamp man ! (The kit with the National Semiconductor SC/MP CPU ..and you had to program it from the switches on the front panel !)
… Made my own … none of this buy someone else's product !
 
I wanted to know how it all worked !
Still have it kicking around somewhere, too.
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My friend who worked at NSC in Scotland gave me an experimental scamp kit to play with. I made a display and keyboard out of an old(?) calculator. I spent hours trying to get it to do something but gave up in the end. The year 1976.
In 1982 I bought a sega 8 bit computer that ran Sega BASIC. It saved to tape but was very unreliable. I later bought the accessories disk drive unit that was much better. With the disk drive I was able to load CPM and had a 40 character wide version of Wordstar. I think the computer is still stored somewhere in Adelaide.
The next computer I had was about 1984. It was 8/16 bit, two FDD and ran DOS 2.11. I later added a HDD, DOS 6.22, 1.44Mb drive and VGA screen. It is still operational. I have Symphony and dataflex loaded on it and can turn it on, check the Database in approximately the same time it takes to load load XP on a modern computer. Those old computers used their limited resources much better than the modern ones.
Barry