"Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root" wrote:
> Oh yes - those were the days!!!!!
>
> <nostalgia>
>
> I remember thinking all my birthdays had come at once when I managed to
> upgrade my Sinclair ZX81 from 1kb to 16kb RAM. And, that 16kb cost me
> more than 64Mb would today...
> The printer was a small thermal affair that printed on what can only be
> described as silver toilet tissue at 50cps. One generally printed about
> 4 copies, and then created one readable copy by the liberal use of
> scissors/tape...
>
> ObOldFogie - I seem to remember a GUI bearing more than a little
> resemblance to Windoze that ran on a 48k Sinclair Spectrum...
>
> </nostalgia>
>
> Regards,
> Ozz.
>
> "640K RAM is enough for ANYONE." - Bill Gates.
>
> PS - The old ZX81 now functions as a very useful doorstop ;-D
Awwwwww...too bad about the ZX81. I still have one functioning Atari
Mega ST that I play (fondly!) old games on. Still a cool machine, even
after all these years.
One of the best/oddest things I remember from tech support at Atari
Corp. about it was, if you experienced random rebooting, intermittant
floppy driver errors, etc, etc, then the problem was more than likely
just "chip creep" (hot/cold expansion). How to tell and fix it? Just
pick up your Atari, and from a height of about a foot or so, drop it
onto the hardest surface you could find. Amazingly enough, this does
actually work, without destroying the computer! <lol>
Later...
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