Sinclair ZX80 / ZX81 / Z88 Forums

Very nice vid there, tezza! Especially like the background you give on things like how it was marketed, Sir Clive, other machines around at the time, RAM pack wobble, working with old TV's / taperecorders etc. That's exactly the kind of thing eg. Wikipedia is often a bit short on. I lived through t...

Dave, I'm not a user and I don't own one, but some units were sold here in New Zealand. There is a review in this edition of New Zealand Bits and Bytes. http://www.classic-computers.org.nz/bits-and-bytes/issue3.2.htm. I've added the pages to this post. It's good to see someone putting in the time to...

RWAP wrote:Welcome to the forums - could I ask you to add a link on your page about the ZX81 please ?

Done!

Good to know the TV issue is a universal problem and just not me!

Terry (Tez)

Yes, a good measure of the "classic" nature of a computer is "impact" and the ZX81 certainly had that. It's a lot of fun making these videos and allows me to both "rediscover" and gain a deeper knowledge of these units in my collection. BTW, has anyone else noticed that modern TVs have trouble tunin...

Maybe Terry paid the bill. :mrgreen: Yes, sorry about that. The site has a 9GB/month upload limit. You would think it would be enough but every month it gets close to the limit and very occasionally reaches it. On December 31st, it didn't quite make it :) It gets reset 1st of every month. Terry (Tez)

Hi,

I'm a vintage computer collector/enthusiast from New Zealand. I have a ZX81 and have recently uploaded a YouTube video showing my take on it. Members might be interested, so I'm posting the URL here: http://youtu.be/7KsuTg1qHIE

Terry (tezza)