I still have my ZX-Spectrum. When the micro drives were available, I bought two and the serial interface. The drives reduced the program load time to five seconds. The capacity was around 100 Kbytes.
That little machine helped me get a well paid job. I typed out my CV and printed it on a Brother electric typewriter that used thermal paper. I photocopied the CV several times to beef up the dot matrix typeset. This was in 1987, no internet, only corporate email (PROFS). I hand delivered the CV to the recruitment company and within two weeks I was hired. I still have the ZX Spectrum and the typewriter in my garage. Alas I sold the microdrives to a friend. On Wed, Jul 17, 2024 at 1:17 AM Phil Smith III <li...@akphs.com> wrote: > Since we're drifting: My dad had many friends in Prague, because he > studied there in 1947 (and was there when the Communists took over, though > he was across town). He visited there as often as he could, and at one > point in the 80s got a tour of a data centre. Technology there included > paper tape machines, only they couldn't get paper tape--so they were using > used movie film from the Russian movie industry. Pretty weird! > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf > Of Radoslaw Skorupka > Sent: Monday, July 15, 2024 12:12 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Mainframe history - 12 inch floppies? > > W dniu 15.07.2024 o 14:35, Paul Gilmartin pisze: > > On Mon, 15 Jul 2024 05:19:52 +0000, Timothy Sipples wrote: > >> ... > >> Drifting even further afield, ... > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Wayne V. Bickerdike ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
