How to Load a Program

[TMAOne]

There has been much discussion of late upon the perils of loading a decades-old Sinclair ZX81 program from cassette tape, and the best volume control setting etc. to use. I humbly feel that the following method, developed after years of research, yields the most consistent results:

• Invent a time machine.
• Go back to 1982 and use the highest quality tape you can afford.
• Come back, and sacrifice a lamb upon The Stone of Sinclair.
• Connect all cables and position the tape in the recorder.
• Bow three times to the East.
• Click your ruby slippers together and repeat: "This time it will work, this time it will work,..."
• Set your tone and volume control to where they were 35 years ago that one time when this file loaded back properly.
• Secure the RAM pack to the motherboard with cross-beams, bailing wire, hotglue, and duct tape.
• Enter LOAD "" and press New Line.
• Immerse the computer, (especially the LM7805), and RAM pack in liquid nitrogen.
• Close your eyes and hope as you press PLAY.
• Discover to your horror that you missed and hit RECORD and PLAY.
• Exhale deeply, and go play Doom on your 486 laptop.

[1024MAK]

Mark

[gammaray]

[Ed in SoDak]

I built this loader circuit. Copy it exactly and you can't fail!

-Ed

[XavSnap]

Thanks Ed in SoDak,

Do you plan to rebuild this "Loading-failure exhauster" ?

[Ed in SoDak]

Yes, certainly! I see from Ian's post I must wire in a pair of Ruby Slippers. How could I have missed that?
-Ed