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ZX Spectrum Next - Unboxing

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    #21
    Farnell don't sell Z80s any more but RS still carry them.
    When the fun stops, STOP.

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      #22
      Still got my Spectrum and a shedload of games, just no tape player.
      Instead, I head off to worldofspectrum.org which has pretty much everything that you'd want.
      The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn't exist

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        #23
        Originally posted by woohoo View Post
        As a vic20 and then commodore 64 owner i cant relate to this post.
        The only nostalgic thing about this is the "256 x 192" resolution.

        Also the max resolution of my Dragon 32.

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          #24
          Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View Post
          Or the 68008.

          I find it odd that the Z80 is still in current production whereas the 6809 died the death 25 years ago, and the 68008 about 10 years ago.

          It's a funny old world.

          It is odd. At Sunderland Polytechnic in the late 80s, I was learning assembler on a 6809. Even then it was seen as more modern than a Z80. But the Z80 goes on. ICs appear to be like that - eg. you can still buy 555 timers and 741 op amps, products that were common when I was still at school.

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            #25
            Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View Post
            Farnell don't sell Z80s any more but RS still carry them.
            I sit corrected.
            Old Greg - In search of acceptance since Mar 2007. Hoping each leap will be his last.

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              #26
              Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
              I’d start the school's PDP-8/e by inputting the machine code bootstrap for the high-speed punched paper tape reader in binary, via the toggle switches on the front
              Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
              I was always an Acorn guy myself
              Are you sure we didn't know each other back in the day?

              Although at my school it was a Data General Nova, which I'd start by inputting the machine code bootstrap for the high-speed punched paper tape reader in binary, via the toggle switches on the front

              Then I went to work at Acorn for a short while... Lion Square

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