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| 1slipperyfish (troll) wrote: | i also had a zx spectrum but one of my mate had the one before that?? but i can't remember what it was called i just remember buying a computer mag between us and typing in 50 lines of code to get a matchstick man rescued by a helicopter 
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It was called the ZX81. But I'm not surprised you can't remember it as you must still have been in the womb at the time. Unless, of course, you've been lying about your age as I have good reason to believe. 
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| 1slipperyfish (troll) wrote: | i can't believe that there was only black and white telly 
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That's because the North didn't get colour until the 1970s
It had been invented as far back as the 19th Century, but didn't become commonplace until the 1960s - Prior to that, the World was, for the most part, black and white [1]
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[1] In fact, even today, large parts of the North ... (i.e. north of The River) ... are still black and white
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I`ve just been deep in thought...
I know - `steady on boy`... :o)
Is there a MONO clone for Chrome...
If so, does that make it monochrome?
;o]
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Punching port-o-punch cards to send off to the Cambridge Titan at sixteen.
An IBM golfball that spewed out punched tape courtesy of MoD, my first monitor (Visual Display Unit to you. lads) and first system crash (Whuh!? It's not possible for you to do that, laddie!) at eighteen.
Feeding the things into Titan's card reader for myself at twenty.
BASIC on a PDP-11, and crashing my mate's prototype can't-remember-what that he brought home from work for a party, at twenty-five.
SC/MP Machine code on a Science of Cambridge (Clive Sinclair's first bolt-hole when Sinclair Radionics died) Mk 14, and customising its assembly language for my own sanity at twenty-eight.
Four-dimensional graphics defeated by a ROM bug on a 48k "dead-flesh" Speccy at thirty
Beta-testing Locoscript for aforesaid mate on an Amstrad PCW at thirty-something.
UK Education agent for the SAM Coupe, just as MGT hit the fan.
Acorn registered developer: a run of Acorn Archimedes, I forget how many, the RISC PC 600 still works and sits beside me as I write.
Then the wilderness years, Wintel PC following Wintel PC - 186, 286, 386, Pentium this-and-that; 3.11, 95, 98, 98SE, 2000 - soul-numbing in their mediocrity.
And now AMD 64-bit homebuilds and Debian. Born again, the eternal noob.
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1slipperyfish
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| Rhakios wrote: | | 1slipperyfish (troll) wrote: | i also had a zx spectrum but one of my mate had the one before that?? but i can't remember what it was called i just remember buying a computer mag between us and typing in 50 lines of code to get a matchstick man rescued by a helicopter
paul |
It was called the ZX81. But I'm not surprised you can't remember it as you must still have been in the womb at the time. Unless, of course, you've been lying about your age as I have good reason to believe. |
thats the one, yes i was about 4 weeks old at the time
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And now AMD 64-bit homebuilds and Debian. Born again, the eternal noob. |
Amen brother! I wonder what is the collective term for a bunch of eternal noobs.
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First computer was a ZX80, in kit form. Could never get the cassette interface to work, so had to type everything in by hand on that horrible membrane keyboard.
Then moved onto an EACA Video Genie (EG3003), a TRS80 clone, followed by a Spectrum and Amstrad 6128 (coded a MIDI sequencer in Z80 Assembly language for that), then onto PCs. Been diddling with Linux since about '98.
I do remember ads for the SC/MP based Scrumpi in ETI. Seem to remember them having a sheep theme (Ewes my massive 1Kbyte of RAM) and features images of a yokel in a smock with an ear of wheat hanging out of his mouth.
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Taking up the old carpet, I found a Dilbert cartoon from 1993:
"When I started programming, we didn't have any of these sissy 'icons' and 'windows'.
All we had were zeros and ones -- and sometimes we didn't even have ones.
I wrote an entire database program using only zeros."
"You had zeros? We had to use the letter 'O'."
How lucky they were - I had to use bits of cathode ray.
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| guy wrote: | | I had to use bits of cathode ray. |
I bet his parents were annoyed!
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| LoL wrote: | | guy wrote: | | I had to use bits of cathode ray. |
I bet his parents were annoyed! |
How is he these days? Have you seen him down at the club recently? I did hear that he had started squeeking again, every time he coughs.
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| catgate wrote: | | How is he these days? Have you seen him down at the club recently? I did hear that he had started squeeking again, every time he coughs. |
Apparently that started after the accident - I heard he got flattened or something
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| LoL wrote: | | catgate wrote: | | How is he these days? Have you seen him down at the club recently? I did hear that he had started squeeking again, every time he coughs. |
Apparently that started after the accident - I heard he got flattened or something |
What, you mean the incident with his trans sister?
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| guy wrote: | | LoL wrote: | | catgate wrote: | | How is he these days? Have you seen him down at the club recently? I did hear that he had started squeeking again, every time he coughs. |
Apparently that started after the accident - I heard he got flattened or something |
What, you mean the incident with his trans sister? |
That comes as no surprise. They say she was more than AMPle. She used to breed OHMing pigeons and was a medalist at pole VOLTing. WATT a girl!
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| catgate wrote: | | That comes as no surprise. They say she was more than AMPle. She used to breed OHMing pigeons and was a medalist at pole VOLTing. WATT a girl! |
Was that before, or after, the sex-change?
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| LoL wrote: | | catgate wrote: | | That comes as no surprise. They say she was more than AMPle. She used to breed OHMing pigeons and was a medalist at pole VOLTing. WATT a girl! |
Was that before, or after, the sex-change? |
I thought it was just the use of one of these eBay 350195771983.
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