Here it is attached to the computer...
This looks like exactly what I had, sans the spiffy audio cassette drive I had to supply. I built mine from a kit. You can see the BASIC keywords and the graphic shapes we were talking about on the "keyboard" too. http://www.epromfoundry.com/home/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/ts1000.JPG -sc From: Phillip Partipilo [mailto:p...@psnet.com] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 12:49 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Friday diversion Was this the expansion pack that was roughly the size of a VHS tape, larger then the Sinclair itself? It's been a real long time since I've touched one of those things, but I really remember how archaic it was, playing around with it at the Boys&Girls club (some form of after-school care, grew up in a single working parent household), even compared to my home TRS80 COCO2 at the time :-) Phillip Partipilo Parametric Solutions Inc. Jupiter, Florida (561) 747-6107 From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 11:20 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Friday diversion Exactly. Thee (membrane!) keyboard had standard characters, or either the BASIC function names, or graphic shapes. The latter 2 could be invoked by some keypress-combination with a function key or some such. The expansion pack I had was 16KB. You had to supply your own rubber band or tape to keep it from wobbling out of the connector tho' -sc From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 11:14 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Friday diversion Mid-year 1983, a St Louis-based grocery store chain was giving away, with the purchase of 3 tubes of toothpaste- 1. Sinclair/Timex Z-81 2. 8 Kb (or was it 16?)memory expansion 3. Cassettes for a spread sheet, a database, and a backgammon game The Sinclair had its OS and BASIC on ROM. It also had BASIC functions on the keys. That is, instead of typing "Poke", you simply held one key and pushed the key that said "Poke". My kids and I wpent many happy hours playing with this... "Steven M. Caesare" <scaes...@caesare.com> wrote on 07/16/2010 09:10:40 AM: > Man, I remember a bunch of these... > > http://www.informationtechnologyschools.org/blog/2010/30-old-pc-ads- > that-will-blow-your-processor/ > > -sc > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
