I actually started out with the original Sinlair version. Oredered the kit,
but they was out of stock and sent me one that was already assembled. Then
later I bought the Timex version. They were great little computers for
teaching you to write compact code.
----- Original Message -----
From: Kenneth Rhodes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, November 07, 1999 12:09 PM
Subject: [newbie] Way back when...... was some other topic
> I bought a Sinclair something or other long before the Times incarnation
and
> couldn't get it to work.... so I bought a Commodore VIC-20 with 5K and a
tape
> drive for about $500, summer of 92, eventually upgraded it to 32K.
>
>
>
>
> Hugh wrote:
>
> > I had one of those too, You could add extra ram buy pluging it into the
> > back. A whole 16 k
> >
> > On Sat, 06 Nov 1999, you wrote:
> > > I remember the days of my Timex Sinclair T1000. A whopping 2k of ram.
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: Sysadmin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Sent: Saturday, November 06, 1999 3:22 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [Re: [newbie] MS releases new Windows and NT Keyboard
(humor)]
> > >
> > >
> > > > Wow, they taught us CPM in trade school, kind of reminded me of
> > > > DOS, it had a C compiler to build the executables and such.
> > > >
> > > > We were trained on the old Z80 microprocessor.
> > > > I also remember Centix, the old business unix then too.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Sat, 06 Nov 1999, you wrote:
> > > > > >>Dating myself, but my first operating system was trsdos on a
radio
> > > shack
> > > > > model
> > > > > I, back in those days the competition was between apple and
trs-80.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Rick<<
> > > > >
> > > > > Keep this up and I'll get my Amstrad 6128 out of the loft and
start
> > > using
> > > > > CP/M again.
> > > > >
> > > > > John the Nadger
> > > > >
> > > > > http://www.goon.freeuk.com
> > > > --
> > > > Normal=boring x 100
> > --
> > Boling's postulate:
> > If you're feeling good, don't worry. You'll get over it.
>
