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Introduce yourself to your fellow forum members - what was your journey into the Sinclair world?
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zxooner
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Good to be here!

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greetings all,

It's taken me a while to get here but I've finally got myself a ZX81. Back in the day from '83 I had an Acorn Electron, then a C64 in about '89 or '90, then the Amiga. Later on I got myself a Speccy 48k but I've always wanted to try the earlier machines... I love that aspect of the early days of home computing that really pushed the boundaries and people found ways to achieve so much with the tools that they had.

I never got further than BASIC (I still do some messing around in basic on my Electron), and I am looking forward to learning the ways of the ZX81.

Got a ZX81 on the way, no bells or whistles, but I plan to do some upgrading over time and look forward to seeing what the modern day wizards have put together for the machine!
low res art for the Public Domain at the ArtBeSassy archive.
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gammaray
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:P

Addendum... where is everybody? Holiday?
5-TS1000,UK ZX81<-Sheelagh, US ZX81, 2-TS1500/KDLX , 3-TS2040 printer, 2-TS2020 cassette decks, ZXPAND+AY, ZeddyNET, ZXBlast, UDG, ZX8CCB, AERCO, BUILDS/REPAIRS ZX Spectrum, ZX80 Minstrel, ZXMAX48 v1 v2, 2-TS-2068, ROM, 16kRAM
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RobertK
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zxooner, great that you joined this forum. If you want to make a step forward from Basic but ASM is too difficult for you (as it is for me), then you could try developing in C using z88dk.
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... or Forth :)
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Lardo Boffin
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Check out this link for some of the modern add ons

viewtopic.php?f=7&t=2926&p=31324&hilit= ... are#p31256
ZX80
ZX81 iss 1 (bugged ROM, kludge fix, normal, rebuilt)
TS 1000 iss 3, ZXPand AY and +, ZX8-CCB, ZX-KDLX & ChromaSCART
Tatung 81 + Wespi
TS 1500 & 2000
Spectrum 16k (iss 1 s/n 862)
Spectrum 48ks plus a DIVMMC future and SPECTRA
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zxooner
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Hey, thanks for the welcome and the tips; I really should try and get further than good old basic lol. Thanks for the add-ons link too.. I will keep an eye as I will be trying to get hold of some SD card/USB storage at some point soon 8-)
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dr beep
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gammaray wrote: Thu Aug 30, 2018 11:02 pm :P

Addendum... where is everybody? Holiday?
I am here often, not always logged in and replying.
Welcome.
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zxooner
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thank you 8-)
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Dim_75
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Welcome, it is the good place to learn more on the ZX ;)
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gammaray
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Being a Timex Sinclair 1000 user, I only recently upgraded to the much faster ZX81 UK version. With an increase in speed that warrants the shipping cost across the pond! :lol:
5-TS1000,UK ZX81<-Sheelagh, US ZX81, 2-TS1500/KDLX , 3-TS2040 printer, 2-TS2020 cassette decks, ZXPAND+AY, ZeddyNET, ZXBlast, UDG, ZX8CCB, AERCO, BUILDS/REPAIRS ZX Spectrum, ZX80 Minstrel, ZXMAX48 v1 v2, 2-TS-2068, ROM, 16kRAM
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