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Re:Computing History - Sinclair ZX81 Computer Launched by justincormack on Saturday March 05, 2011 @09:21AM (#2291498)
My first computer! Although I started programming on the Acorn Atom just before that. The combination of wobbly RAM pack and thump sensitive keyboard was not a good one. But those were exciting times.
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Re:Computing History - Sinclair ZX81 Computer Launched by watmough on Saturday March 05, 2011 @12:50PM (#2291891)
My dad gave up on our ZX81 ever arriving and bought an Acorn Atom from an electronics guy at work.

I ended up with a Spectrum, then a BBC, then a Dell 486 and various home-builts an Macs since then.

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Re:Computing History - Sinclair ZX81 Computer Launched by rbanffy on Saturday March 05, 2011 @11:03AM (#2291660)
I was slightly luckier. I had a clone with 16K of RAM and a calculator-style keyboard. Gladly, its BASIC (and, later, Microsoft's Applesoft) didn't mutilate me that much.
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