― koogs (koogs), Monday, 25 July 2005 14:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 25 July 2005 14:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― JimD (JimD), Monday, 25 July 2005 14:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― bob snoom, Tuesday, 26 July 2005 09:30 (eighteen years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EOPMxrbXUAEYcGW?format=jpg&name=large
love the idea of someone pulling out a briefcase at a business meeting with a ZX81 in it with 16k ram extension cartridge, cassette deck and the worst printer ever made.
― calzino, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 11:40 (four years ago) link
yeah did anyone ever use a spectrum in their office ?!
― Ste, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 14:23 (four years ago) link
turning up to a very important meeting at the business factory with my honking great zx spectrum case and being laughed out of the room because i forgot to lug my tv along too
― que pasa picasso (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 14:29 (four years ago) link
lol
a whole month of work was lost when someone accidentally nudged the 32k ram expansion cartridge and it crashed.
― calzino, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 14:31 (four years ago) link
'sorry boss the tape deck ate the quarterly report'
― que pasa picasso (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 14:32 (four years ago) link
that program shown just prints this:
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― Ste, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 14:39 (four years ago) link
can anyone remember the Sharp MZ80k? Built in tape deck and monitor - type of machine you could really make the nerve-centre of your business!
― calzino, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 14:54 (four years ago) link
#vaporwave
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.old-computers.com%2FMUSEUM%2Fphotos%2Fsharp_mz80k2e.jpg&f=1&nofb=1
― que pasa picasso (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 15:00 (four years ago) link
hah! proper bit of kit was that!
I can remember going to a computer club at the local community centre in the 80's which was just basically a hub of software piracy and violence. And saying that - copying games on a tape to tape deck there was usually a very slim chance of it working. There was a violent Scottish woman who used to wear slippers in the town centre and swear 50 times a minute. Someone borrowed some hardware off her boyfriend and broke it and she beat him up quite badly and pushed him down some stone steps outside!
― calzino, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 15:03 (four years ago) link
from what i can remember of the MZ80k was that all the games on it seemed to written in basic and utilising its own built in graphics/symbols set.
― calzino, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 15:08 (four years ago) link
xp kind of like a mini version of the Commodore PET ? Getting 1970's goosepimples just looking at those pictures.
― Ste, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 16:03 (four years ago) link
urgh I really want a retro looking keyboard with orange, black and white keys. Seems you have to buy a keyboard and then buy the keys separately but sounds like a great recipe for me breaking those said keys.
https://www.retrosetup.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/2delt.jpg
― Ste, Wednesday, 15 January 2020 09:33 (four years ago) link
also, what's with that small Return key?
― Ste, Wednesday, 15 January 2020 09:38 (four years ago) link
we all hate to see diminishing returns
― que pasa picasso (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 15 January 2020 09:42 (four years ago) link