On Sat, Dec 24, 2016 at 8:10 AM, Peter Corlett wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 04:14:28AM -0700, Eric Smith wrote:
> > The same trick works perfectly well with a 6502, and in fact was
> invented by
> > Don Lancaster using a 6502 years before the ZX80 was designed. That
>
On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 04:14:28AM -0700, Eric Smith wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 3:59 AM, Peter Corlett wrote:
>> People who know Uncle Clive's unwillingness to spend a penny more than he
>> has to on bulding computers may wonder why they selected the relatively
>>
and Snapper *IS* Pac Man
On 23 December 2016 at 21:10, Adrian Graham
wrote:
> On 23/12/2016 17:00, "Liam Proven" wrote:
>
> >> The Acornsoft games were very high quality (hard to distinguish from
> their
> >> arcade inspirations).
> >>
> >> But
On 23/12/2016 17:00, "Liam Proven" wrote:
>> The Acornsoft games were very high quality (hard to distinguish from their
>> arcade inspirations).
>>
>> But I was mostly interested in programming, so I loved our BBC Micro Model B
>> to bits. A far superior machine to the Apple
On 23 December 2016 at 19:56, Liam Proven wrote:
> The Apple ][E was
> £1390 in 1983
Sorry -- wrong currency sign. $1390.
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On 23 December 2016 at 16:00, allison wrote:
> When the timex/sinclair with membrane keys got her eit was around 99$
> and immensely unpopular the later chicklet keyboard version was better
> accepted.
> BY then people wanted printer and mass storage and that machine was 2-4
On 23 December 2016 at 19:34, Michael Holley wrote:
> I was in London in 1981 and happened upon a computer faire. Here is a
> write-up published in Seattle's Northwest Computer Society newsletter. It is
> an American's view of the English computer scene.
>
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>The "at least i
On 12/23/2016 10:16 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
> On 23 December 2016 at 10:59, Peter Corlett wrote:
>> The "at least in the US" caveat is important :)
> Absolutely.
>
>> Sinclair's Z80-based ZX Spectrum was outrageously successful in the UK. Every
>> teenage bedroom seemed to have
>> But I was mostly interested in programming, so I loved our BBC Micro Model B
>> to bits. A far superior machine to the Apple and Commodores.
>
> I agree that it was a far superior machine. It had its limitations --
> shortage of RAM, notably -- but it was a great design.
My personal view is
On 2016-12-23 2:00 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
On 23 December 2016 at 15:50, Toby Thain wrote:
On 2016-12-23 12:16 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
...
The BBC Micro, at another quarter or third over the price of a C-64
but with a superb BASIC instead of CBM's abomination, was
On 23 December 2016 at 15:50, Toby Thain wrote:
> On 2016-12-23 12:16 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
>>
>> ...
>> The BBC Micro, at another quarter or third over the price of a C-64
>> but with a superb BASIC instead of CBM's abomination, was what the
>> unfortunate children of
On 2016-12-23 12:16 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
...
The BBC Micro, at another quarter or third over the price of a C-64
but with a superb BASIC instead of CBM's abomination, was what the
unfortunate children of very serious, very wealthy people bought. Not
nearly so many games and not very good.
On 23 December 2016 at 10:59, Peter Corlett wrote:
> The "at least in the US" caveat is important :)
Absolutely.
> Sinclair's Z80-based ZX Spectrum was outrageously successful in the UK. Every
> teenage bedroom seemed to have one by the late 1980s. The various 6502-based
>
On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 3:59 AM, Peter Corlett wrote:
> People who know Uncle Clive's unwillingness to spend a penny more than he
> has
> to on bulding computers may wonder why they selected the relatively
> expensive
> Z80 over the 6502, but it was because they managed to
On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 08:01:46PM -0600, drlegendre . wrote:
> "The Z80 had more players and more names than all the rest"
> And yet it was essentially a bit-player in the days of the 'home computer'
> revolution - at least in the US. CBM, Apple, Atari - the three big names in
> home computers,
On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 7:01 PM, drlegendre . wrote:
> The Z80 also showed up in the Osborne, Kaypro and TRS-80 models.. mostly
> due to the fact that CP/M was written to it.
>
Use of the Z80 in the mainstream TRS-80 models (1 and III) had little or
nothing to do with
"The Z80 had more players and more names than all the rest"
And yet it was essentially a bit-player in the days of the 'home computer'
revolution - at least in the US. CBM, Apple, Atari - the three big names in
home computers, all went with the 6502 family. And perhaps even more
importantly, so
On 12/21/2016 07:06 PM, Sam O'nella wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 5:54 PM, j...@cimmeri.com wrote:
>
>>
>> On 12/17/2016 1:23 PM, Stephen Pereira wrote:
>>
>>> I was (finally) lucky enough to acquire an Altair 680 back in November...
>>>
>> Is there any logic to the naming of
Dammat.
"were not limited" -> "were more limited"
On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 9:15 PM, drlegendre . wrote:
> I have my own ridiculous ad-hoc hypothesis on this..
>
> Both names have a couple things in common - first, they do +not+ contain
> the actual CPU model. This may have
I have my own ridiculous ad-hoc hypothesis on this..
Both names have a couple things in common - first, they do +not+ contain
the actual CPU model. This may have been to avoid marketplace confusion and
potential legal action from a outfit much bigger than Altair (Now who makes
the 8080 again?
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