ZX81 released 30 years ago today!

[Jack-daniels]

I still have a ZX80 in my garage. Picked it up cheap at a car boot sale years ago.

Worth a few quid now as well.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Sinclair-ZX-80...item1c19a70f70

[davetaylor]

Had one myself, though it was the best ever back then....how 30 years has changed computers

whats the next 30 years to surprise us with?

[russbeer]

Had one myself, though it was the best ever back then....how 30 years has changed computers

Somebodys sig used to say something like "In 1968 a computer with the power of a commodore 64 sent 3 men to the moon, in 2008 it takes a computer about 10000 times more powerful just to run windows xp"

It says a lot about progress!

[greaseweasel]

Yeah but that computer going to the moon was funded by an immense budget. Now most people have a PC with tons more power in their house for less than a weeks salary, I definitely would call that progress.

[sparkymf]

If I remember correctly I think I sat waiting about 30 mins for the game flight simulator to load and thought it was feckn immense ....lol would sit playing it for hours trying to land that f@cking plane and never managed it once.

[davetaylor]

I remember spending days typing in some shit from a mag just to play some shoot em up game, Could not believe I done it lol...My Mother unplugged the computer to use the Hoover and way back then no way to store the game.... I then bough a tape storage device, took ages to store on and if I recall a plugin mem for the side.....Then onto the comm 64 and the 128 with built in HD.. Remember these was no internet only dial-up bulletin boards, Some chap used to have games and alike we could download..

God those were the days

Could you see our kids faces if they seen what we started with?

[greaseweasel]

Its crazy looking back, although at least there was no copy protection.

People would come into school with C90's crammed with games and with the cassette counter number written on so you could find the game easier.

I remember there was a kid no one liked and he was desperate for one game. We made a copy but stopped the recording a couple of seconds before the end. He went home well chuffed to have it and must have spent hours reloading it wondering why it wouldn't work.

[russbeer]

lol, kids can be right twats!

[funkyg]

If I remember correctly I think I sat waiting about 30 mins for the game flight simulator to load and thought it was feckn immense ....lol would sit playing it for hours trying to land that f@cking plane and never managed it once.

Jeez, my first computer.
Did anyone assemble their own or buy it made?
I had the flight sim as well. Was it the Spectrum version or the zx81 version that had a compass that went to 370 degrees?


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