[TriLUG] More computer trivia...

[Bill Geschwind]

That does bring back memories. The first computer I played on was my Dad's
Sinclair ZX-80, that he got as a kit IIRC in 1980, and it had the same
limitations as the Timex Sinclair 1000 that you described. 

http://oldcomputers.net/zx80.html

When I was in 9th grade I would play games on it by first typing in the
BASIC program from a listing in a magazine. 

A couple of years later my Dad upgraded to a TI 99/4A, which he over time
upgraded with every add-on available for it, including dual 5.25" floppy
drives and a speech synthesizer (which sang some truly horrendous Christmas
songs).

- Bill
 

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Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 10:15 AM
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Subject: Re: [TriLUG] More computer trivia...

On 12/13/05, Kevin Sonney <kevin at sonney.com> wrote:

No, I think I've even got you beat, Kevin.  Our first computer was
a Timex Sinclair 1000 (with the 16KB expansion pack).

http://www.pawel.tpi.pl/t1000.html

It had a membrane keyboard with BASIC built in and each key
was a different BASIC instruction (i.e. you couldn't type programs
in letter by letter as it wouldn't work).

Before that, though, in school, I did some programming on a
TI 99/4A.  That was actually my very first introduction to computer
graphics as I programmed a little guy that was about 16x16 pixels
to wave at people.