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Neil Riley wrote:
> Speaking of retro computers,
>
> I have gotten rid of a few items recently but i still have a nice
> working ZX81 with a Ram pack which doesn't wobble ( clever
> hook that fixes it firmly in place ), a beautiful Original Atari 800
> which I'm on the verse of selling even though I don't want to, plus
> a couple ATARI Stfm's and a rather stunning Amiga 1200.
>
> I only use my QL & Aurora now though as I haven't the room for
> the others.
>
While we are on the nostalgia kick, I still have a working Tandy 102.
This is an excellent system with a very good keyboard. The QL connection
is that I set some up for an acquaintance of, urmm, Dave Walker I think.
It had modem capability, quite unusual in those 80s days, and was used
by salesmen to send in data at the blistering speed of .0003 Mbps by
acoustic modem.
I had fun disassembling two pieces of 6502 machine code that used the
same address shifting one, and combining - to get a pound sign *and*
Xmodem at the same time!
I keep it on standby permanently as I haven't a clue where the cassette
code is now! I change the 4 AA batteries when I remember - about every
three years!
This compares with my laptop where standby is only a month!
Tony
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