> The ZX-81 worked programs from a cassette tape - which stretched very > quickly and soon became useless, so you had to have a backup tape. > Also, I had the 16KB (Yes, KB!) memory pack, strapped on the back > with insultating tape to stop wobble. You would work all evening on > a bit of programming, then at 23:30 you would have a 'white-out' and > it was all lost. That's how I learned the value of backups <g>
Those were the days! We had the same thing. Then, dad bought the Timex Sinclair 2068, and a disk drive controller from Oliger. No case, just a PCBA that plugged into the back of the computer. We were cruisin then: 5 1/4" floppies were so much better than tape! Imagine the day when bootup took .5 seconds and the entire state of a machine (and i mean every byte of ram) could be saved/loaded at the touch of a button in <10 seconds. Also a great feature when you were trying to get farther along in a game. Dad and i used to program that thing together. Ahhh, Anne, thanks for the nostalgia again. For my dad, it's not just nostalgia: he still uses that computer every once-in-ahile. eric
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