On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 10:59 AM, Andrew Farnsworth <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 11:01 AM, ./aal <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I still have my ZX81 that I built in 1981, although it runs neither >> Linux, OSX, or the other "stuff" >> I do still have a soft spot for Zilog tho ;^) > > Modernistic Memory Hog!!! I ran a ZX80 (1k RAM vs 4k RAM)... Either way, I > have yet to see any "modern" OS that could even hope of running in that > small a memory footprint. > > Preemptive strike! Pay attention people, this is Kilobytes of RAM not > Megabytes of RAM. 1024 (or 4096) bytes! > > Andy
Well I did spring for the huge 16KB module too. I also have the dis/assembler and monitor apps for the z80 (on cassettes of course) I designed and built a "Centronics" par port card for the custom bus, even made it stackable with the 16KB unit. I spent a summer decoding the ROM to make the print routine speak ASCII I still have my 2nd computer as well, a TS2068. The last home computer Sir Sinclair produced (basically a super-Spectrum), he was pushing the QL for business after that. -- I'm a PC AND I RUN LINUX!!! John Barrymore - "Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to ha... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
