Dave, Yes, still have it, I upgraded mine from the rubber keys to the larger plastic keybord.
I also have the modem interface and a centronics interface with a Timex printer. Somewhere I have a lot of original software: Small business accounts Manic Miner Tasword 2 (written in Leeds!) Avalon plus a few others. I did have the microdrives (2 of them) but I sold them to one of my mates around 1983. I applied for my second job in Australia using the Spectrum and Tasword 2 to write my CV. I also have a Brother EP22 serial printer which connected to the modem interface (RS232) and I printed it about 3 times on the same paper to get the print to look stronger. That was in 1986, before the days of PCs on networks. You either used a typewriter or whatever you could print something on. I got the job (Software development manager, DOS/VSE, CICS/ICCF, COBOL and a few other 3rd party products of the day (CA-Librarian, Vollie, CA-Sort, CA-OPtimizer, Goal Systems FAVER and FLEE/FLIM/FLIC). We ran a banking application on a 1 MIP box with 1 MB of memory! On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 1:26 PM, David Crayford <[email protected]> wrote: > On 22/03/2018 2:52 AM, Wayne Bickerdike wrote: > >> Wow, I still have a copy of Forth for my Sinclair Spectrum. My version was >> very frustrating to use, one error and you had to go back many many steps. >> It's the antithesis of modern programming paradigms. >> > > Do you still have the specky? I knocked all the keys off mine doing the > hurdles playing Daley Thomson's decathlon back in 1985! > > > On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 1:49 PM, Jack J. Woehr <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> http://rescue1130.blogspot.com.au/2018/03/historical-recreat >>> ionrestoration-of.html >>> >>> -- >>> Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way >>> of >>> www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the >>> universe >>> www.softwoehr.com # with a fine understanding of human fallibility. - >>> Carl Sagan >>> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> 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
