ZX Spectrum's chief designers reunited 30 years on
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Gawd now i feel old LOL......
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Sad that Sinclair didn't take part in the programme.:erm:
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My 48K Speccie's still in the loft. I'll never forget the kids spending ages loading a game from cassette tape, then immediately deciding they wanted something different.
And my (now) wife playing Wriggler for hours and days, and never getting quite to the end. Also puts me in mind of arguably the best Spectrum emulator, Warajevo, which was written in wartime Sarajevo between bombing raids and power cuts. Quite an achievement. http://www.worldofspectrum.org/warajevo/Story.html |
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Thanks for that link, Osem.
My first contact with Sinclair was when I bought a couple of their photo-transistors. I believe they were reject standard transistors repackaged with a transparent case. I sent off for the Cambridge calculator kit and they sent me an Oxford. When I contacted them they sent the Cambridge and let me keep the Oxford. With some guidance, my then girlfriend was able to assemble one of them. She (and everybody else) was well impressed with her achievement. My dad bought a ZX81 and spent many an hour programming it. Always thought the QL should have been more popular than it turned out. Seemed like a pretty good machine for the price. |
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are those prices in todays money or actual prices of the time because £32.95 for a calculator was a big amount of money in '75
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I bought several calculators in the mid 70's and early 80's costing from around £30 to well over £100.
According to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_Cambridge Quote:
Which sounds about right to me and given that my 5 1/2 day pw summer holiday job only paid me £11, that was a lot of money. |
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It's hard to imagine spending that much on a calculator .I remember them becoming widely available in the mid 70's but they where frowned on by my parents as being for the lazy good old fashioned log tables and times tables was all that where needed:D |
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lol I did my 'O' level maths exams using log tables - it was only when I went on to study 'A' level Maths and later that I had the benefit of scientific calculators.
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My father had an old Texas Instruments LED calculator for his work back in the 70's, used to remember that the screen went blank sometimes for several seconds whilst it calculated the answer :)
It was one of these https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2012/04/26.png |
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I had a Texas TI58 for a while:
http://www.vintagecalculators.com/ht...nts_ti_58.html Later got a Casio FX602p which had an alphanumeric LCD display which ended all our silly games creating words on upside down LED displays.... :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casio_FX-602P_series Cost me £80 IIRC |
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I have very fond memories of the 48k/128k Spectrums, I can say I've enjoyed the games back then far more than the games of today. The days of Crash magazine, stashes of TDK D90 tapes, thermal paper printers, Multiface one, the excellent Kempston Joystick, and countless hours of tweaking the heads of the tape recorders when things didn't load up. Great days... :)
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I had a 48k spectrum rubber keys and seperate tape...I eventually moved onto the 128k with the built in tape...waiting 30 mins for a game to load for it to eventually crash at the end of loading lol.
When you think now some games were like £30 a time...easy to copy as well |
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