On Saturday 02 Apr 2005 20:48, Duncan Anderson wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> >We had a Computer Group in Huddersfield, rather like the LUGs today.  We
> > all carted down our heavyweights and plugged them in on trestle tables,
> > with adapters on adapters <g>.  On one occasion I actually had the output
> > of another computer on my ZX81 screen!
> >
> >Anne
>
> Wow! That is impressive! I remember we used to connect Tandy 100
> portables to a UNIX box and use them as rudimentary terminals while
> testing some comms software we were writing, but to do it with a ZX81!
> (bows and scrapes in obeisance to true geek divinity)
>
Only one problem there - we did it by accident!

> The Spectrums were much easier to link up. Do you remember ZX-Net? And
> Red Box, where you could use the mains circuit for networking your Speccys?
>
Only vaguely.  I was never involved with either.

Anne
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