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Happy Birthday ZX Spectrum

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    Happy Birthday ZX Spectrum

    linky

    The proud owner of 125 Xeno Geek Points

    #2
    Originally posted by chef View Post
    WHS!

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      #3
      I'll take a PEEK later.
      What happens in General, stays in General.
      You know what they say about assumptions!

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        #4
        Originally posted by MarillionFan View Post
        I'll take a PEEK later.
        BASIC stuff. Some of us grew tired of that and went on to Z80A assembler.

        I even had a PASCAL compiler. <SHUDDERS>

        I had wanted to be a coder before that but for some reason went right off the idea after those experiences.

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          #5
          My father told me that the spectrum was born when Sir Clive got his mitts on a batch of damaged Z80 chips originally intended for washing machine programmes. Half the chip was blown, but half usable. The ZX Spectrum was designed around the working half.

          Urban myth?
          Knock first as I might be balancing my chakras.

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            #6
            Originally posted by suityou01 View Post
            My father told me that the spectrum was born when Sir Clive got his mitts on a batch of damaged Z80 chips originally intended for washing machine programmes. Half the chip was blown, but half usable. The ZX Spectrum was designed around the working half.

            Urban myth?
            Best to ask Churchill or Nick Fitz. They were there.

            On that note though, you can ask Fitz about how he helped Babbage.
            What happens in General, stays in General.
            You know what they say about assumptions!

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              #7
              Originally posted by suityou01 View Post
              My father told me that the spectrum was born when Sir Clive got his mitts on a batch of damaged Z80 chips originally intended for washing machine programmes. Half the chip was blown, but half usable. The ZX Spectrum was designed around the working half.

              Urban myth?
              Myth, probably taken from the story about his earlier foray into transistor radio.

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                #8
                Still got both my ZX81 and my Speccy.
                Brings back fond memories of college with me and my flatmate sitting up to the early hours with a bottle of scotch playing Gauntlet.

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                  #9
                  Still have mine somewhere, Z,X,N,M keys and spacebar battered by that Olympics game!
                  one day at a time

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by suityou01 View Post
                    My father told me that the spectrum was born when Sir Clive got his mitts on a batch of damaged Z80 chips originally intended for washing machine programmes. Half the chip was blown, but half usable. The ZX Spectrum was designed around the working half.

                    Urban myth?
                    Sound like an urban myth.

                    However there are a whole bunch of 'undocumented' instructions in the Z80... and legend has it Zilog couldnt get them to work on every one of the early chips so they just pretended the instructions just didnt exist at all.

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