Re: [SLUG] ZX-80/computer history

From: Andy Woeber (scoville300@worldnet.att.net)
Date: Wed May 29 2002 - 06:56:26 EDT


No, but that backback usually came out at the inappropriate time. I also
had the thermal printer and several spools of paper. I think the original
price may have been $90 and then went to $25. Programs were loaded with a
tape machine I believe similiar to Commodore 64. I then inherited an ATT
6300 computer with a 286 chip from my dad in the late 1980s just before the
386 came out. The computer had a 20 meg HD and ran MS-DOS 3.0 or could be
set up with System V Unix. Had the worst monochrome green screen imaginable
but was a workhorse and I used that computer through college and some in my
first jobs. Gave it away though (Arrhhh).
----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick Grantham (at work)" <pwgrant@cssi-fl.com>
To: <slug@nks.net>
Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 8:23 AM
Subject: Re: [SLUG] windows emulators

> I STILL have my Sinclair ZX-80 with it's whooping 16K expansion module AND
> the game Star Trail! Remember, don't bump that module. DO you remember
the
> options you could by to make the module more secure?
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brother Timothy" <irisinc@tbi.net>
> To: <slug@nks.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 7:05 AM
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] windows emulators
>
>
> > Ed Centanni wrote:
> > >
> > > Carnsarn it all you bunch of young whippersnappers! (he barks while
> > > grabbing at his upper plate flying across the room, that hits the
> > > one-eyed cat who then jumps and knocks over the Sinclair ZX-80, which
> > > falls on the keys of the TRS-80 model 200 portable and starts WWW III
by
> > > sending a message at 300 baud to the worlds lone surviving pirate
BBS).
> > >
> > > 'Way back long, long ago, I remember installing a text mode
WordPerfect
> > > (5.someodd) for a client on an Altos computer with serial terminals
and
> > > some kind of unix-like OS (SCO?!) 'way back in 1990 or there 'bouts.
It
> > > was probably available for unix several years before even that.
'Course
> > > that was 'way before Corel bought it, GUI'ed it and screweyed it.
> > >
> > > Bottom line: WordPerfect has been available for unix-like platforms
at
> > > LEAST 12 or more years that I'm aware of.
> > >
> > > Anybody remember (dare I say it!) WordStar?
> > >
> > > Ed.
> > >
> > > bpreece1@tampabay.rr.com wrote:
> > >
> > > > Corel has had word perfect versions for Unix and Linux for over 4
> years.
> > >
> > > <snip>
> >
> > Yes I remember Word Star on an 8088(remember that!) On Word Star you
> > would type a page of text then go to the bathroom, get a cup of coffee
> > and return to your seat and read the paper while the computer saved the
> > page of text you had typed.
> >
> > Remember also that Word Perfect was the "Word Processor" long before
> > Gates & Company stole most of their features and incorporated "Microsoft
> > Word".
> >
> > Timothy
> >
>
>



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