16 Mar
2002
16 Mar
'02
2:07 p.m.
From: Tony Duell <ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
But surely, if you link up a different keyboard (good
idea as the Zx81
keyboard is unusable IMHO), and then use an LCD display then there's not
much of the original ZX81 left.
Sure there is. If you change the keyboard and monitor on a PC it's still a
PC -- same for the ZX81. In most cases we're just adding peripheral i/o
devices, RAM, and beefier PSUs and mounting the whole mess in a larger
enclosure.
OTOH I saw plenty of plain black ZX81s at this year's meeting, used to
demonstrate software.
> Sure, some of these operations are slow, but the
point is that we're
doing
> a *lot* with "obsolete" hardware. If
we can get this kind of
functionality
That applies to a number of serious old-computer user groups, actually...
Yup, it's great that there are so many people out there still fanatically
hacking so many different machines . . .
Glen
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