Build Your Own Sinclair ZX81 Ad, BYTE Magazine, Volume 7, Number 9, September 1982
Build Your Own Sinclair ZX81 Ad, BYTE Magazine, Volume 7, Number 9, September 1982
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Oh shit, that's cool. Did any of you guys do this?
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Yup! I remember it so well. I even remember seeing this ad in a magazine and begging my dad to order it.. I was 10 years old, and built it with him.
I also remember going to a home computer sale event in my hometown. No shops were selling computer stuff in that town yet. Men with beards and long hair laughing that I was buying 1k Chess to play on my new computer.
The location for that sale was turned into public toilets.
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This was sadly before my time. One of the people in the original post did have one though.
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I built one of these with my dad. I think he still has it around somewhere.
Cool little computer but the software was limited.
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Sinclair? Sinclair, where did you go? Why did you leave me here?
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I miss those thin serif fonts that were all over tech magazines in the 80s and 90s
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That damned Mylar keyboard. Easy to clean, horrible to use. Atari 400 has the same problem.
Yep. Tried one at a family friend's house with a RAM expansion pack hanging off the back that kept disconnecting because it was such a wobbly connection, and heavier than the computer itself. Then there was the fact it was only black & white. Seemed a really unreliable PITA, so I was iffy about getting one.
Then Captain Kirk advertised the VIC-20, and I was sold.