Sinclair ZX81: 30 years old yesterday

OK, so that is official then, 3 decades of my life wasted staring at a white screen and a flashing black cursor now then.

http://www.reghardware.com/2011/03/04/sinclair_zx81_anniversary/

Still have mine. And it works.

Originally posted by Russ
OK, so that is official then, 3 decades of my life wasted staring at a white screen and a flashing black cursor now then.

http://www.reghardware.com/2011/03/04/sinclair_zx81_anniversary/

Still have mine. And it works.

Originally posted by jimslyp69
Did you ever spend a whole month trying to enter a game program from a nerdy magazine into it, only to find out that it didn't work?

I actually had two programs printed in those 'nerdy' magaizines
so watch it. 🙂

One was a fantasy dice generator for D & D the other was a
Zombie game.

The were short and typed in basic.

The nightmare listings were those in machine code. I once
spent a weekend typing in one just to see my name move across
my TV screen in a larger font.

I was totally addicted to Star Trek.

Remember:

- - - - P - - -
- - - - - - - -
- - S - - - -P
- - - - - -K -
- P - - - - - -
- - - - - - - -
K - - - - - - -
- - - - E - - -

One Starbase, 2 Klingons, 3 planets and The Enterprise.

I am very excite. 😏

Originally posted by greenpawn34

The nightmare listings were those in machine code. I once
spent a weekend typing in one just to see my name move across
my TV screen in a larger font.

Originally posted by Russ
OK, so that is official then, 3 decades of my life wasted staring at a white screen and a flashing black cursor now then.

http://www.reghardware.com/2011/03/04/sinclair_zx81_anniversary/

Still have mine. And it works.

Originally posted by Russ
OK, so that is official then, 3 decades of my life wasted staring at a white screen and a flashing black cursor now then.

http://www.reghardware.com/2011/03/04/sinclair_zx81_anniversary/

Still have mine. And it works.

Erm... dunno what happened there, but my browser refused to return me to the thread, hanging indefinitely. Hence the triple post. Sorry, guys.

Richard

Originally posted by Shallow Blue
Erm... dunno what happened there, but my browser refused to return me to the thread, hanging indefinitely. Hence the triple post. Sorry, guys.

Richard

Originally posted by lausey
10 FOR N=1 TO 3
20 PRINT "Ah, good old uncle Clive! I only ever had a Speccy. And I broke that 🙁 . Still, good days, what? Tempus fugit..."
30 PRINT
40 PRINT "Richard"
50 NEXT N

Originally posted by jimslyp69
10 PRINT "Jim is great"
20 GO TO 10
RUN

Originally posted by wormwood
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We had a person named Fulvio in our Computer Coders first-year class. He hacked the tutor's college computer access and turned up before class to share a printout of all her mistakes in the class exercise ...

In those 1970s days people like Fulvio were rare birds indeed.

Originally posted by Kewpie
We had a person named Fulvio in our Computer Coders first-year class. He hacked the tutor's college computer access and turned up before class to share a printout of all her mistakes in the class exercise ...

In those 1970s days people like Fulvio were rare birds indeed.