On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:57:15 -0500
"Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@porchlight.ca> wrote:
Hello Douglas,
> Anybody remember the Timex/Sinclair 1000? It has a pure membrane
AKA the Sinclair ZX-81, in the UK. First computer I owned. Sinclair
followed it with the Spectrum, a colour machine (the '81 was B&W, block
GFX only). The keyboard on that, although not a membrane was also
hideous. It felt a bit like a dead fish.
Several companies produced "real" keyboards for both machines.
> keyboard built-in. The whole box was about 8" square. BASIC keywords
> were given to each key for programming. 1 MHz Z-80 with 16 KB ram
1k as standard, the 16k RAM pack was extra. It had the knack of
"wobbling" at the wrong time and as a result, you'd lose your program.
> with, I think, a connection to an audio tape deck for storage. I did
Ah, tape. Mmmmm.......
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