That does bring back memories. The first computer I played on was my Dad's Sinclair ZX-80, that he got as a kit IIRC in 1980, and it had the same limitations as the Timex Sinclair 1000 that you described.
http://oldcomputers.net/zx80.html When I was in 9th grade I would play games on it by first typing in the BASIC program from a listing in a magazine. A couple of years later my Dad upgraded to a TI 99/4A, which he over time upgraded with every add-on available for it, including dual 5.25" floppy drives and a speech synthesizer (which sang some truly horrendous Christmas songs). - Bill -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tanner Lovelace Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 10:15 AM To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list Subject: Re: [TriLUG] More computer trivia... On 12/13/05, Kevin Sonney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: No, I think I've even got you beat, Kevin. Our first computer was a Timex Sinclair 1000 (with the 16KB expansion pack). http://www.pawel.tpi.pl/t1000.html It had a membrane keyboard with BASIC built in and each key was a different BASIC instruction (i.e. you couldn't type programs in letter by letter as it wouldn't work). Before that, though, in school, I did some programming on a TI 99/4A. That was actually my very first introduction to computer graphics as I programmed a little guy that was about 16x16 pixels to wave at people. -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
