Just got one.
Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2020 7:33 pm
It's all quiet on the Z88 front....
I got a Z88 recently in a small lot of computers (I was really only after the ZX80 but the price was good).
It's a German model with German ROM (which means it has the German letters on the keyboard but everything software-wise is still in English) and it worked after I'd cleaned up the keyboard rubber, allowed it some time with power and did a few resets. I just managed to exchange files between it and an old laptop running Win95 and using a serial cable I made up. It came with a 32k EPROM labelled in pen as PC Link II but unfortunately it wouldn't read the contents so I've erased it with UV and can now save files to it.
I understand that without extra RAM I'm very limited and in fact have already had low memory problems.
It's all another new learning curve but fortunately there are a couple of areas of the web dedicated to them - actually one of which seems to have made me more confused as it's sort of like a giant tabloid website from 2003. Anyway, I now have to decide how far I want to go with it in terms of upgrades/software etc!
Anyone else here with Z88 user experience?
I got a Z88 recently in a small lot of computers (I was really only after the ZX80 but the price was good).
It's a German model with German ROM (which means it has the German letters on the keyboard but everything software-wise is still in English) and it worked after I'd cleaned up the keyboard rubber, allowed it some time with power and did a few resets. I just managed to exchange files between it and an old laptop running Win95 and using a serial cable I made up. It came with a 32k EPROM labelled in pen as PC Link II but unfortunately it wouldn't read the contents so I've erased it with UV and can now save files to it.
I understand that without extra RAM I'm very limited and in fact have already had low memory problems.
It's all another new learning curve but fortunately there are a couple of areas of the web dedicated to them - actually one of which seems to have made me more confused as it's sort of like a giant tabloid website from 2003. Anyway, I now have to decide how far I want to go with it in terms of upgrades/software etc!
Anyone else here with Z88 user experience?