> On 17 Jul 2024, at 05:09, Wayne Bickerdike > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I still have my ZX-Spectrum.
Do you? The keyboard wore out on my Speccy years ago. > When the micro drives were available, I bought > two and the serial interface. The drives reduced the program load time to > five seconds. The capacity was around 100 Kbytes. > > That little machine helped me get a well paid job. I typed out my CV and > printed it on a Brother electric typewriter that used thermal paper. I > photocopied the CV several times to beef up the dot matrix typeset. > > This was in 1987, no internet, only corporate email (PROFS). > > I hand delivered the CV to the recruitment company and within two weeks I > was hired. > > I still have the ZX Spectrum and the typewriter in my garage. Alas I sold > the microdrives to a friend. > > >> On Wed, Jul 17, 2024 at 1:17 AM Phil Smith III <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Since we're drifting: My dad had many friends in Prague, because he >> studied there in 1947 (and was there when the Communists took over, though >> he was across town). He visited there as often as he could, and at one >> point in the 80s got a tour of a data centre. Technology there included >> paper tape machines, only they couldn't get paper tape--so they were using >> used movie film from the Russian movie industry. Pretty weird! >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf >> Of Radoslaw Skorupka >> Sent: Monday, July 15, 2024 12:12 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: Mainframe history - 12 inch floppies? >> >> W dniu 15.07.2024 o 14:35, Paul Gilmartin pisze: >>> On Mon, 15 Jul 2024 05:19:52 +0000, Timothy Sipples wrote: >>>> ... >>>> Drifting even further afield, ... >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN >> > > > -- > Wayne V. Bickerdike > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
