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OFF TOPIC => WORLD NEWS => Technology => Topic started by: eye30 on April 23, 2015, 17:21:09
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Britons of a certain age (predominately blokes in their 40s or 50s) will go misty-eyed if you mention the Sinclair Spectrum – or “Speccy”.
In the early ‘80s, the quirky, affordable home computer was responsible for keeping a huge number of us locked in our bedrooms, not only playing games but learning how to code.
:link: 'It looks like a really old remote control' - Watch young kids try a Sinclair Spectrum - BT (http://home.bt.com/tech-gadgets/computing/it-looks-like-a-really-old-remote-control-watch-young-kids-try-a-sinclair-spectrum-11363974908531)
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:rofl: "I'm already bored" :rofl:
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Never owned one but sure remember the advertising. I remember the home built computers that would give you a hex code as an output. Fancy getting excited over that, the measure of a true geek. :lol:
My 1st code was on a 16K ram Microbee, it was
100 Print "Hello!"
Output
>Hello!
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I bought a zx spectrum when they first came out, would spend all night into the early hours inputting the code out of a magazine and after many hours click finished and the *&&%$%£ wouldn't work :crazy1:
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Been there, done that, too. Even worse finding an error with machine code mnemonics. :disapp: :crazy1:
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My first computer was an ETI660 kit-built single board computer with a hex keypad and modulator output to a TV. My next was a 16K RAM Microbee which I then boosted to 32K. I wrote a lot of my own programs and saved them to a cassette tape. I even had a couple published in Computer Fun'n'Games circa 1987. Those were the days. :blubber:
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My first computer was an Epson HX20.