David asked: *Do you? The keyboard wore out on my Speccy years ago.*
I did the keyboard upgrade that Sinclair pushed out. My old one had the rubber keys but the replacement had a larger hard plastic case and hard keys with engraved white characters. I still have the Centronics 779 interface, a modem interface and Tasword 2, Colossal Adventure, Manic Miner and Small business accounts. I guess I should hang on to an old analog TV too! On Mon, Jul 22, 2024 at 9:59 PM David Crayford < [email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > -- Wayne V. Bickerdike ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
