On Fri, 27 Apr 2018 at 00:48, Fred Cisin via cctalk
wrote:
> The Honda 600 was NOT a bike. Well, mostly not. After demise of the mid
> 1960s Honda S600/S800 ("poor-man's-Ferrari" design exercise that got out
> of hand and went into production), Honda engineers took a 360CC parallel
> twin, detun
I had to choose between buying not skimping on groceries V a Mini-Cooper-S
(needed a little work) V Honda 600 V TRS80. Did I make the right choice?
On Thu, 26 Apr 2018, Liam Proven wrote:
I'd go for a bike over a car any day. Well, when I was young, anyway. Now,
I'm getting kinda stiff and cre
On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 at 23:30, Geoffrey Oltmans wrote:
> I don't know what it's like around your home, but most places in the US
aren't terribly bike friendly. Since the advent of texting and smart phones
even less so. Still, I keep thinking I should trade my one way 4 mile car
commute for a bike
On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 at 19:54, Geoff Oltmans wrote:
> I think you'd find a few people this side of the pond whose first
computer was a Timex Sinclair 1000 (our equivalent of the ZX81). I know
that was true in our household... My dad purchased one brand-new at
Albertson's (a supermarket chain in th
On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 at 16:55, Zane Healy wrote:
> My first computer was supposed to be a ZX81. I worked all Summer
painting the house to earn it. As it happens, my payment was a VIC-20 with
a tape recorder.
I guess the VIC had colour and sound, but that 22-column screen always
looked too much
On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 4:15 PM, Liam Proven via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 at 23:04, Fred Cisin via cctalk >
> wrote:
>
> I'd go for a bike over a car any day. Well, when I was young, anyway. Now,
> I'm getting kinda stiff and creaky... Because of all the bike c
> On 26 Apr 2018, at 22:13, Eric Smith via cctalk wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 3:11 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk <
> cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 26 Apr 2018, Eric Smith via cctalk wrote:
>>
>>> Those Microdrives were such a Cheese design.
>>>
>>
>> The American Cheese Socie
On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 at 23:04, Fred Cisin via cctalk
wrote:
> Neither "first", nor "sub-$1000"
> Apple][ was $1298, and discounts were very rare.
> TRS-80 at $599 was less than half the price.
> Pet at $795 was barely more than half the price.
The TRS-80 line barely sold over here, so I tend to
On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 3:11 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Apr 2018, Eric Smith via cctalk wrote:
>
>> Those Microdrives were such a Cheese design.
>>
>
> The American Cheese Society (industry association) would probably resent
> that comparison
I was ref
On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 3:03 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> Apple][ was $1298, and discounts were very rare.
> TRS-80 at $599 was less than half the price.
> Pet at $795 was barely more than half the price.
>
By connecting a CCTV monitor, I got my TRS80 new for $399.
On Thu, 26 Apr 2018, Eric Smith via cctalk wrote:
Those Microdrives were such a Cheese design.
The American Cheese Society (industry association) would probably resent
that comparison.
On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 at 22:41, TeoZ via cctalk wrote:
> My first computer was a Timex 2068 just before Timex got out of
computers. I
> had seen advertisements for the 1000 model but it looked like junk at the
> time (no real keyboard, you needed to have the 16K RAM cart to do
anything).
> Still th
On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 2:37 PM, Liam Proven via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> The QL was a weird machine. It predated the Mac by a matter of weeks and in
> crude spec terms was comparable -- 128 kB RAM, 68008 vs 68000, 2 x 100 kB
> Microdrives versus 1 x 400 kB floppy. The QL did sound
On Thu, 26 Apr 2018, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
A lengthy interview with the later great Rick Dickinson, product designer
of basically every Sinclair computer, who sadly died of cancer on Tuesday.
https://medium.com/@ghalfacree/an-interview-with-rick-dickinson-3fea60537338
He not only did the
1000 model which must have sold quite a few units
before being discontinued compared to my 2068.
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On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 at 21:33, Mark J. Blair via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> Over here in the US, I remember seeing the Sinclair QL in a magazine
(probably Byte?) and thinking it looked exotic and interesting. I thought
the little tape drives looked neat, and didn’t know enough to appr
Over here in the US, I remember seeing the Sinclair QL in a magazine (probably
Byte?) and thinking it looked exotic and interesting. I thought the little tape
drives looked neat, and didn’t know enough to appreciate how much better a
floppy drive would have made the system.
I have no regrets at
On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 at 19:26, Adrian Graham via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> My first was a ZX80 which my Dad borrowed from my physics teacher at
school. That spurred me on to get my own ZX81 which had just come out, then
the Research Machines 380Z at later school, then the 48K ZXSpect
On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 at 19:17, j...@cimmeri.com wrote:
> Very interesting to see this perspective from the UK!
Oh good. :-)
> Located in the U.S. (Washington, D.C), I started with an Apple II+ in
1979 as a 12 year old.
This confirms the sort of thing I read. US users had specifications of kit
w
> On Apr 26, 2018, at 7:47 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> I know this is a rather USA-centric list, so probably most of you started
> off with things like the Apple II, the first sub-$1000 home computer. But
> in Britain and Europe back then, we were a lot poorer, and $1000 was an
> im
> On 26 Apr 2018, at 13:47, Liam Proven via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> I think if you ask virtually any British person in their late 30s, 40s or
> 50s, in anything connected with IT, what their first computer was, the
> answer would be a ZX 81 or a ZX Spectrum. It was the single range of
> machines th
On 4/26/2018 11:46 AM, Liam Proven via
cctalk wrote:
Personally, the $99 Timex 1000 was the only computer I could have afforded
back then. Schools had Apple II's but not so many people in their homes
then, at least where I lived.
That's very cool. Thanks for sharing.
I knew the TS1000 (and
On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 at 17:55, Bill Degnan via cctalk
wrote:
> There was a very large Timex 1000 / ZX81 user base in the US. I have
quite
> a lot of newsletters and documents from these groups. I even did an
exhibit
> on the subject of SIGs for the Timex 1000 ZX81 at VCF MW a few years ago.
>
There was a very large Timex 1000 / ZX81 user base in the US. I have quite
a lot of newsletters and documents from these groups. I even did an exhibit
on the subject of SIGs for the Timex 1000 ZX81 at VCF MW a few years ago.
You can see stacks of newsletters in stands flanking the machines and
t
> On Apr 26, 2018, at 5:47 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> He not only did the ZX 80, ZX 81, ZX Spectrum and the QL, but also the Z88,
> the Spectrum Next and others -- along with a lot of other stuff.
>
> I know this is a rather USA-centric list, so probably most of you started
> off
Just to add some info to the excellent Liam's post, it was a revolution in
south america too. The first computers in Brazil were ZX80 clones (TK82C is
a ZX80 clone, not a ZX81...ZX81 were cloned just in the TK85 computer) and
it was a revolution! I was a very poor guy, my father was a Militar Polic
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