I had a Timex-Sinclair ZX-80 in 1982. You could store your program (BASIC) on a cassette tape player. It came with 4K of memory (RAM or ROM, I am not sure) standard and you could purchase the 16K expansion, which I had too. I was already a system programmer when I got the ZX-80.
"Confidentially doc, I am the wabbit." Bugs Bunny Sent with Proton Mail secure email. On Tuesday, July 16th, 2024 at 5:09 PM, Wayne Bickerdike <0000059234794979-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
