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How to Load a Program

Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2018 10:43 pm
by 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.

Re: How to Load a Program

Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2018 11:04 pm
by 1024MAK
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Mark

Re: How to Load a Program

Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2018 3:28 am
by gammaray
:D

Re: How to Load a Program

Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2019 8:04 pm
by Ed in SoDak
I built this loader circuit. Copy it exactly and you can't fail!
:mrgreen:
-Ed

Re: How to Load a Program

Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2019 10:56 pm
by XavSnap
Thanks Ed in SoDak,

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

Re: How to Load a Program

Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2019 5:38 am
by 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? :shock:
-Ed