For Christmas 1981 Dad bought me a Book featuring most of the Computers for Sale at the time
I enjoyed reading through the book as it taught me binary arithmetic also
For Christmas 1982 I was given the choice of Computer from the Book I had received the Christmas before
I chose a ZX81 as there was more relevant software for it than the other machines
The Revival of the ZX81 came about when a Film was made & shown on BBC4
I still have my original ZX81 & some books but the ZX81 doesn't work
I have opened it up and hope to salvage enough of the chips as possible
Thank You for reading this post
Kind Regards,
Damian aka Ibrahim
Christmas Comes But Once A Year...
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Christmas Comes But Once A Year...
ZX81 & 1980s Enthusiast - Skilled In Programming In Basic, Pascal, C, C++, HTML, Java, Assembler
Internet Consultant since 1995 & Sold Webpages & Internet Access
I used to visit customers at home or office and sign them up off a floppy disk
Internet Consultant since 1995 & Sold Webpages & Internet Access
I used to visit customers at home or office and sign them up off a floppy disk
Re: Christmas Comes But Once A Year...
Fun to relive youth eh? I remember when the Spectrum came out, and I saw an article about it in a sinclair mag in the USA. We never got it, but I always wanted one... Just got one almost 40 years later off ebay UK lol
Zeddy: ZX80, ZX81/ZXpand, TS1000/ZXpand, TS1500/Zxpand+,Printer
Speccy: 48k, +, +2, +3, TS2068, "Bare Metal" Pi, Next KS2, IF1/Microdrives/Vdrive/Light Gun/VGA-Joy
QL: Minerva/QL-VGA/Custom PSU
C5: 24v, LiFE battery, Disc brakes
Speccy: 48k, +, +2, +3, TS2068, "Bare Metal" Pi, Next KS2, IF1/Microdrives/Vdrive/Light Gun/VGA-Joy
QL: Minerva/QL-VGA/Custom PSU
C5: 24v, LiFE battery, Disc brakes
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Re: Christmas Comes But Once A Year...
Welcome on board!
You have come to the right place to get your ZX81 back up and running. I still have mine from back in the day but luckily it still works - would hate to have to do anything to it.
You have come to the right place to get your ZX81 back up and running. I still have mine from back in the day but luckily it still works - would hate to have to do anything to it.
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
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Re: Christmas Comes But Once A Year...
Hello and welcome to our forum Damian!
I hope you enjoy this forum
If you would like some help and advice, just pop a post in the hardware area.
Mark
I hope you enjoy this forum
If you would like some help and advice, just pop a post in the hardware area.
Mark
ZX81 Variations
ZX81 Chip Pin-outs
ZX81 Video Transistor Buffer Amp
Standby alert
There are four lights!
Step up to red alert. Sir, are you absolutely sure? It does mean changing the bulb
Looking forward to summer later in the year.
ZX81 Chip Pin-outs
ZX81 Video Transistor Buffer Amp
Standby alert
There are four lights!
Step up to red alert. Sir, are you absolutely sure? It does mean changing the bulb
Looking forward to summer later in the year.
Re: Christmas Comes But Once A Year...
"Christmas Comes But Once A Year..."
...except in 2020, when it didn't come at all. It might not come this year, either...
...except in 2020, when it didn't come at all. It might not come this year, either...
Spectribution: Dr. Jim's Sinclair computing pages.
Features my own programs, modified type-ins, RZXs, character sets & UDGs, and QL type-ins... so far!
Features my own programs, modified type-ins, RZXs, character sets & UDGs, and QL type-ins... so far!