Again, my "toothpaste bonus" package had a backgammon game... One fateful afternoon in a game, I was getting hit a lot. I decided to try a "back game". The machine offered to double. I would accept and offer back. I had the cube all the way up to 64, and I had my "table" all blocked up. Then I made a few hits...
I backgammoned the system (256 points, I believe?). The screen went blank. That game program refused ever to load again... Jay Dale <jd...@emlogis.com> wrote on 07/16/2010 12:14:44 PM: > OMG I had one of those too! > > Jay > > From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] > Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 11:53 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Friday diversion > > 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 J > > > 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 orsome 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/> ~
