Don't know anything about that- I do remember the ZX80 ( was that the timex sinclair kit u were referring to? - I think that came out in 79-80 ) used the Zilog Z80 processor as opposed to the 6502 used in the apple and subsequent british computers.
I annoyingly had to write firmware assembler for far more time than I would have liked on the Z80. A remember my best mate at uni programmed a lunar lander game on the ZX80 in a day. The beginnings of the British bedroom game coding phenonemon :) Don't know why - but I never got around to buying one of any of those early brit home computers, I think they were still quite expensive at the time, but I could have afforded one, I put all my spare cash into guitar gear in those days anyway - I was crying out for my employer to use C or a better processor - would have died for the 68000 in those days. Or better still there was a National Instruments 32000 series processor that seemed the dogs *ollox in those days - had very flexible 32 bit registers and addressing modes, before its time ( it was cisc ) and sadly came to 'nowt On 15/9/06 13:16, "Jay Wooten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think the Timex-Sinclair kit I built in 1976(?) had 8 bit bytes > (anyone remember?) but there was something goofy about how you had to > enter code - like 4k in bank one and 4k in bank two or something like > that. > > My original Apple II (1977) had 8 bit bytes, along with a tape drive > and 16k of Ram (Yipee!) - however, back in those days you couldn't do > lower case, SO EVERYTHING YOU WROTE LOOKED LIKE YOU WERE YELLING > (according 'this' generation) > > Back in my day :-) > > Jay Wooten, President > Go Data Systems, Inc. > www.godatasystems.com > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > On Sep 14, 2006, at 10:55 PM, Norman Palardy wrote: > >> >> On Sep 14, 2006, at 8:53 PM, Robert Woodhead wrote: >> >>>> Nah - give me a Sinclair ZX spectrum any day :) >>> >>> You young whippersnappers have it easy. Why, when I was a lad, >>> the bytes only had 6 bits. And we couldn't afford twos-complement >>> arithmetic. >>> >>> Robert "CDC Cyber 6600, for example" Woodhead >> >> LOL ... we had 9 bit bytes on the Multics system I learned PL/1 on >> _______________________________________________ >> Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: >> <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> >> >> Search the archives of this list here: >> <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html> > > _______________________________________________ > Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: > <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> > > Search the archives of this list here: > <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html> > _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives of this list here: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
