New member from the UK rediscovering ZX’s
Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2019 9:30 pm
Hi, Dave here. I’ve been lurking for a long while on and off and finally joined up.
I got my ZX81 in around 82/83 as a hand me down from my cousin who moved “up” (!?) to a BBC model B. I have vivid memories of the ram pack wobble and trying to save type ins with much frustration and quickly went back to the Atari 2600 we had for a more instant “hit”. I finally got into computing for real with a Spectrum plus Christmas 84 I think which lasted a good 7 or 8 years.
After picking up a Jupiter Ace recently which had fascinated me for years and backing the Spectrum Next (already have a board in a modified speccy I thought I’d better have another go with my first computer again, I fancied doing some refurbishing of old systems after learning soldering and getting into basic electronics.
Managed to pick up a custom case/keyboard Zeddy which I’m about to explore and a couple of other standard case models, the plan was to do some composite mods and any repairs and eventually build a custom keyboard. This forum has been great, learned loads and realized I knew next to nothing!
I got my ZX81 in around 82/83 as a hand me down from my cousin who moved “up” (!?) to a BBC model B. I have vivid memories of the ram pack wobble and trying to save type ins with much frustration and quickly went back to the Atari 2600 we had for a more instant “hit”. I finally got into computing for real with a Spectrum plus Christmas 84 I think which lasted a good 7 or 8 years.
After picking up a Jupiter Ace recently which had fascinated me for years and backing the Spectrum Next (already have a board in a modified speccy I thought I’d better have another go with my first computer again, I fancied doing some refurbishing of old systems after learning soldering and getting into basic electronics.
Managed to pick up a custom case/keyboard Zeddy which I’m about to explore and a couple of other standard case models, the plan was to do some composite mods and any repairs and eventually build a custom keyboard. This forum has been great, learned loads and realized I knew next to nothing!
