13 Mar
2001
13 Mar
'01
3:27 p.m.
I've just returned from the annual ZX-TEAM meeting in Dietges, Germany, and I
must say this 90-member international users group is doing some astounding
things. I saw lots of ZX81s with full-sized LCD displays, AT keyboards, hard
drives, floppy drives, scanners, modems, and 1 MB memory expansions. Some
folks were using ZX81s to control RC devices (such as robots), and CNC
machine tools. The TEAM now has a 24-hour dial-up BBS, running on a ZX81.
Also demonstrated was a nifty C compiler which runs on Windows-based machines
and which produces compiled ZX81 code. All in all it was pretty
mind-boggling, and well worth the time and money I spent to attend the
meeting.
Last year on this list the ZX81/TS1000 was voted "least expandable". Now, I
don't mean this to be flame-bait, but can someone please explain to me how
the ZX81/TS1000 could, by any stretch of the imagination, win the prize in
the "least expandable" category????
Glen
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13 Mar
13 Mar
6:59 p.m.
On Tue, 13 Mar 2001 Glenatacme(a)aol.com wrote:
I've just returned from the annual ZX-TEAM meeting
in Dietges,
Germany, and I must say this 90-member international users group is
doing some astounding things. I saw lots of ZX81s with full-sized LCD
displays, AT keyboards, hard drives, floppy drives, scanners, modems,
and 1 MB memory expansions. Some folks were using ZX81s to control RC
Hate to be the blasphemer on CC but...why?
Last year on this list the ZX81/TS1000 was voted
"least expandable".
Now, I don't mean this to be flame-bait, but can someone please
explain to me how the ZX81/TS1000 could, by any stretch of the
imagination, win the prize in the "least expandable" category????
Well, unless you count the fanatical hacking being done by the ZX-TEAM
dudes, it really isn't :)
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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11:12 p.m.
Hi,
Glenatacme(a)aol.com saud:
Last year on this list the ZX81/TS1000 was voted
"least expandable". Now, I
don't mean this to be flame-bait, but can someone please explain to me how
the ZX81/TS1000 could, by any stretch of the imagination, win the prize in
the "least expandable" category????
Quite! I've got one that has 17k RAM, 6 8-bit i/o ports, 4 relay outputs
an 8-channel 8-bit analog to digital board, a proper keyboard and runs
multi-tasking windowing Forth in ROM...that's expandable enough for me.
--
Cheers,
Stan Barr stanb(a)dial.pipex.com
The future was never like this!
23 Mar
23 Mar
8:04 p.m.
Glenatacme skrev:
Last year on this list the ZX81/TS1000 was voted
"least expandable". Now, I
don't mean this to be flame-bait, but can someone please explain to me how
the ZX81/TS1000 could, by any stretch of the imagination, win the prize in
the "least expandable" category????
Because it hasn't got any expansion ports?
--
En ligne avec Thor 2.6a.
24 Mar
24 Mar
4:15 a.m.
Last year on
this list the ZX81/TS1000 was voted "least expandable". Now, I
don't mean this to be flame-bait, but can someone please explain to me how
the ZX81/TS1000 could, by any stretch of the imagination, win the prize in
the "least expandable" category????
Because it hasn't got any expansion ports?
27 Mar
27 Mar
2:26 a.m.
Jeff Hellige skrev:
> >Last year on this list the ZX81/TS1000 was
voted "least expandable".
> >Now, I
>>don't mean this to be flame-bait, but can someone please explain to me how
>>the ZX81/TS1000 could, by any stretch of the imagination, win the prize in
>>the "least expandable" category????
>
>Because it hasn't got any expansion ports?
But it does...the port on the rear that the 16k RAM
pack
plugs up to. Printers and all plugged up to that edge connector.
Sorry, I must have been thinking of the ZX80. =)
--
En ligne avec Thor 2.6a.
Es gibt zweierlei M?dchen: die einen, die Pullover stricken, und die anderen,
die sie ausf?llen.
--- Daliah Lavi
9:19 a.m.
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1:51 p.m.
Tony Duell skrev:
[ZX81 is not expandable???]
> >>Because it hasn't got any expansion ports?
>
> > But it does...the port on the rear that the 16k RAM pack
> >plugs up to. Printers and all plugged up to that edge connector.
>
> Sorry, I must have been thinking of the ZX80. =3D)
Which, unless I am much mistaken, has the _same_ bus
connector on the
back. The Jupiter Ace has a similar connector, but with a different
pinout (FWIW).
I thought that since the ZX80's memory couldn't be expanded, there were no
expansion port either.
--
En ligne avec Thor 2.6a.
"It's better to have loved and lost, than to be gang raped in a Turkish
prison."
1:34 p.m.
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24 Mar
24 Mar
5:35 a.m.
Last year on
this list the ZX81/TS1000 was voted "least expandable". Now, I
don't mean this to be flame-bait, but can someone please explain to me how
the ZX81/TS1000 could, by any stretch of the imagination, win the prize in
the "least expandable" category????
Because it hasn't got any expansion ports?
7:40 a.m.
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