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« Reply #30 on: August 11, 2006, 01:59:43 am »
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In the UK we also had a non-standard 1200/75 baud "standard".[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=138121\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]
Actually it is a standard. And ITU-T V.23 was not just used in the UK, but also in other european countries.

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« Reply #31 on: August 11, 2006, 06:56:56 pm »
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I also racked up a fortune in phone bills playing the original Mud using my ZX Spectrum!

-- cheers
LOL! I still have my little old Timex Sinclair 1000. A neat little machine. Good to learn asm on. But the "backpack" 1016 RAM module was a mighty PITA! One tiny wiggle & ZOT! No RAM; progam lost. LOL!

What wouldn't we have given for a FDD instead of that cassette tape program & data storage mechanism! And to think that it was high tech in it's day. Wonderful job of highly compact design, still.
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« Reply #32 on: August 11, 2006, 07:17:39 pm »
I too was a Spectrum Geek after helping my brother build a ZX81...

at one time I could quote you all the T-state timings for Z80 instructions because i used to write a lot of timing dependent code on that Spectrum underclocked 3.5Mhz Z80C and my bible was 'Programming the Z80' by Rodnay Zacks.... and the Microdrive I had then bears no resemblance to what I have now

-Andy
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« Reply #33 on: August 11, 2006, 07:30:19 pm »
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and my bible was 'Programming the Z80' by Rodnay Zacks....

-Andy
Still have my copy of Joseph J Carr's "Z80 Users Manual" way up high on one of the book shelves .... right next to about a dozen or so books on the care & feeding of the ZX-81.

Wonder if that old hardware will still run? LOL!
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« Reply #34 on: August 16, 2006, 08:36:21 pm »
Hmmm. . . I have the BBC FDD interface, but no FDD or ROM. . .

How hard do you think it would be to create a 3.5" Interface ROM for a Beebeeceebee?
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« Reply #35 on: August 20, 2006, 08:03:00 pm »
I remmember hearing a lot of the things you guy's have talked about on here and I have seen them. I know somethings abput computers and other tech things but not enough to be considered a geek I am what i refer to to as a tech junkie because have a lot of tech in my room. Sadley thou i don't have my orginal computer a packard bell with windows 3.11

I am 26 but I have read a lot of things from the web and doing research for reports for school and college
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« Reply #36 on: August 20, 2006, 09:04:11 pm »
first time I use a computer, I worked as a summer interin in a business, in the IT dept (they called IT but it was the Finance dept), with a punch card phillips computer

I hardly remember anything. I was young and fascinated by computers.

You had to carefully  blind-type in a keyboard integrated in a table (no screen whatsoever), which was part of the system. Then, insert a virgin card that would get puncted, and ejected, and then I had to review the data entered.

I think I was typing accounting info.

And since then, all kind of computers and programmable calculators (I have a small old HP calculator collection, some with red led screen, which look really nice).
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« Reply #37 on: August 20, 2006, 10:06:52 pm »
Looks like I don't know how to use a spell checker does it. i am horrible at spelling and my fingers a just huge to use a keyboard normally so i have to use the old 2 index finger approach
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« Reply #38 on: August 20, 2006, 10:58:09 pm »
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Sadley thou i don't have my orginal computer a packard bell with windows 3.11
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Packard Bell brings back some bad memories.   At work most of the machines sent out one  Friday came back in the following Monday.   Stupid problems like the com port not being plugged into the mother board, doftware not being loaded...
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« Reply #39 on: September 03, 2006, 03:26:50 pm »
has anyone tried running a Commodore C64 or Sinclair emulator on the Z and gotten anything like real-time speed?
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« Reply #40 on: September 03, 2006, 03:44:27 pm »
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has anyone tried running a Commodore C64 or Sinclair emulator on the Z and gotten anything like real-time speed?
Fuse on C3100 gets up to 90%-92% real-time when playing Manic Miner. It's sad I can't even get past the 1st level on the Z, though I've completed the real thing on my Speccy (all those years ago )
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« Reply #41 on: September 03, 2006, 03:55:14 pm »
frodo ran "Rags to Riches" pretty well....  I never figured out ho to save, though
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« Reply #42 on: September 03, 2006, 04:15:42 pm »
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Hmmm. . . I have the BBC FDD interface, but no FDD or ROM. . .

How hard do you think it would be to create a 3.5" Interface ROM for a Beebeeceebee?
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Ferret One question.  Which chip is in your FDD controler? if its the 1770 I may have the code.  If its the older 85xx then I think your stuck.

As it turns out my first PC was a BBC. I upgraded my Master 128 with the 80186 CoPro board.  Two computers one case only Acorn could think that up
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« Reply #43 on: September 03, 2006, 10:59:14 pm »
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As it turns out my first PC was a BBC. I upgraded my Master 128 with the 80186 CoPro board.  Two computers one case only Acorn could think that up
The Amiga B2000 was similar, it had a "Bridgeboard" which contained a complete XT (8086 or was it 8088, can't remember) or AT (286).
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« Reply #44 on: September 04, 2006, 04:23:19 am »
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er, my geek credentials? Built my first computer at the age of 13 (long time ago) literally from a PCB and chips (anyone remember the UK101 aka Ohio Superboard?).
Hm, I think I **was** a geek in some decade last century. Now, am too old, have family and a good job and hold a PhD. So I do no longer qualify.

Here, my first and only homebrew "Zaurus" built around 1985 (I do no longer remember):

http://www.quantum-step.com/wiki.php?page=...rer=QuantumSTEP

-- hns
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