Re:Sinclair ZX81 turns 40 today
by karmakaze on Friday March 05, 2021 @02:42PM
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Actually I think that was it! The size and keyboard wasn't even as good as a calculator of the day. I ultimately got the Atari 400 with membrane keyboard and my dad insisted I upgrade it with a third-party mechanical one that looked all-Frankenkeys sticking up out of the slim case. I liked the membrane keys, later Atari 400 manufacturing keys didn't come out as well as the early models--I had friends and stores' models to compare with.
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Well my first computer was a secondhand C64 with lots of accessory's, i mean really a lot...a full blown c64 two disk-drives fast-load cartridge 100's of games joysticks everything!! My dad then say'd he needs a real computer an got a macintosh Lc2, and because he was old-school (one computer and one tv per household) i had to trash the c64, one would say an Lc2 is cool...yeah it was, but nearly zero games, all my friends with amigas and dos machines had more fun, i had myst, crystal quest and shufflepuck...and hypercard, photoshop and filemaker...oh and quark express...cool :(
EDIT: I forgot that i had IndianaJones3 too..what a cool game, probably even harder then myst.