Hi all,
So unlike most of you I suppose, I was an old Apple user from back when that was unpopular and PC users used to tease me for it. The first computer I ever worked with was My Grandfather's old Apple //e (which I still have and even works after a fashion). My first computer was a Mac SE, and over the last few years, I've been getting into collecting and learning about as many old computers as I can. Honestly, being in the States (and somewhat oblivious at the time) I never even heard of Sinclair or anything outside of Apple IBM and their various clones. Well, I did hear about the C64 but had never seen so much as a picture of one until I was in my late thirties. Now I own three.
As for the Timex Sinclair/ZX81... I seem to be following the same pattern. My first is fully functional, 2k untouched, the other two are, shall we say, works in progress. So I expect to be asking a lot of hardware questions in the near future.
I've posted a lot on AtariAge, and joined a few other retro computer forums over the years (mostly Apple II related but Lemon64 as well), and when I got my TS-1000s I was referred here. So I'm looking forward to learning something new, and getting a few old computers up and running again like they deserve!
Hello from Marin County
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Re: Hello from Marin County
Welcome on board!
Its probably a little quieter here than the forums you are used to.
Growing up in the UK at school it was either Sinclair or Acorn (the BBC Micro) with very little else, maybe an occasional C64 or Dragon 32. I did have one friend who’s dad worked for IBM as a computer programmer and always had the unusual kit - he had an Atari 800 and then an Apple II (can’t remember which model but it had two disc drives and a colour monitor which was a lot of money over here back then!). Of course we played Bard’s Tale and Wizardry!
Happy days.
Its probably a little quieter here than the forums you are used to.
Growing up in the UK at school it was either Sinclair or Acorn (the BBC Micro) with very little else, maybe an occasional C64 or Dragon 32. I did have one friend who’s dad worked for IBM as a computer programmer and always had the unusual kit - he had an Atari 800 and then an Apple II (can’t remember which model but it had two disc drives and a colour monitor which was a lot of money over here back then!). Of course we played Bard’s Tale and Wizardry!
Happy days.
ZX80
ZX81 iss 1 (bugged ROM, kludge fix, normal, rebuilt)
TS 1000 iss 3, ZXPand AY and +, ZX8-CCB, ZX-KDLX & ChromaSCART
Tatung 81 + Wespi
TS 1500 & 2000
Spectrum 16k (iss 1 s/n 862)
Spectrum 48ks plus a DIVMMC future and SPECTRA
ZX81 iss 1 (bugged ROM, kludge fix, normal, rebuilt)
TS 1000 iss 3, ZXPand AY and +, ZX8-CCB, ZX-KDLX & ChromaSCART
Tatung 81 + Wespi
TS 1500 & 2000
Spectrum 16k (iss 1 s/n 862)
Spectrum 48ks plus a DIVMMC future and SPECTRA