On Sat, 2003-07-19 at 22:16, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Saturday 19 Jul 2003 4:14 pm, Frankie wrote: > > Basic was the first language I learned.. > > > > Back when I was a youngin I was given a Commodore Vic 20 > > computer. > > I taught myself basic and wrote my first big program... > > > > A space invaders clone.. > > snip
> > > 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> > > Anne > ZX81 - I got the DIY kit, had to solder together myself. Could do some incredible things in 1K of memory, (e.g. space invaders) until I could afford the 16K add-on. I've still got it, and an add-on board with EPROM with kernel - can't remeber what it did. Have to sort it out. Then moved onto the Tandy Color Computer using MS-Basic, but preferred to run OS-9 from disk. Paul M
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