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Nice!

I wonder how many IT careers he launched? Mine for sure. My earliest memory of home computers is when I was about 6-7 years old, and my father (also a member of these forums - Allô Papa!) had brought home a ZX81 - I remember my excitement as that "K" cursor appeared on screen after turning it on. T...

I must say that it is an amazing find in a thrift store in this day, especially in original packaging. And it looks to be in excellent shape.

I've always wondered if that recessed slot at the bottom of the case next to the edge connector was meant to attach peripherals more securely (with screws) to avoid any wobble.

Moggy wrote: ↑Fri Jun 18, 2021 1:57 pm Link doesn't work for me, all I get is..

"This site can't be reached"

DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN

I had trouble too - proper link is https://popularretro.com

Shaun_B wrote: ↑Wed Jun 16, 2021 10:50 am I'm wondering why the poster is dated 1984? The ZX81 was launched in March of 1981. Am I missing something?

I believe it's the publication date, according to this site.

Lardo Boffin wrote: ↑Fri Jun 11, 2021 4:15 pm the ULA has a large heat sink attached which I doubt can be removed

You sure that's a heatsink and not simply a handle/puller?

GCHarder wrote: ↑Sat May 29, 2021 8:08 pm teeash.com

Given some of the T-Shirt designs they sell on there, this is not exactly a company I'd buy products from, personally.

Hi, I'm a Linux user, I would like if there's a tool setup for do the following: 1. Write Assembler code (or BASIC code) in a reasonable way and export the code to an emulator to test. 2. Export stuff from the emulator to a .tgz file (or a .p file) in order to get the stuff working in the ZX 81 Tha...

I've started looking into this recently as well. For non-platform specific solutions, MS Visual Studio Code might be an option (runs on PC, Mac, Linux), and there's extensions available for Z80 programming. There's also a very capable development extension called DeZog that supports development with...