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From: Duncan Kennedy on 20 Feb 2010 05:27 In message <1je6mv7.wrnce813ilid6N%peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk>, Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> writes >Duncan Kennedy <nospam(a)nospam.otterson-bg.couk> wrote: > >> I can't remember what I paid - wouldn't be more than the RAM / computer >> itself at the time - 50 quid. > >I remember my ZX-81 was thirty quid from a shop in Kensington High >Street. I was waiting for a bus and thought 'at that price, I can afford >to get one just to find out what computing is about'. So I got one. I >really had not the slightest clue, beyond very basic theory, how or what >computers did. I was exactly the same. Eventually taught myself to write programs in Sinclair Basic and eventually managed a simple database and even simpler spreadsheet for my employer - printed out on a ZX81 thermal printer. (I found some blank paper the other day that once had the code printed on it!) > >However the only computer >game I ever really enjoyed was '3-D Monster Maze' on the ZX-81. Bought my son that - of course I could never understand what he saw in it - tried it many, many timers to see if I could find out! > >I did enjoy messing about with CP/M, though. I *did play with CP/M on the Amstrad but went back to more ambitious versions of ZX81 Basic stuff in Amstrad Basic. -- Duncan K Downtown Dalgety Bay
From: Peter Ceresole on 20 Feb 2010 07:06 Duncan Kennedy <nospam(a)nospam.otterson-bg.couk> wrote: > I *did play with CP/M on the Amstrad but went back to more ambitious > versions of ZX81 Basic stuff in Amstrad Basic. Oh yes. Made Basic loaders for programs which configured keys and screen parameters (for Protext on ROM) and included a startup picture (for Baintstorm). Great fun, if weenie. Now I've reached that venerable age of 70 (go on, venerate me) at which I mostly just want my applications to do stuff. Which they do. YEEE-HARRRRR! -- Peter
From: Geoff Berrow on 20 Feb 2010 07:40 On Sat, 20 Feb 2010 12:06:57 +0000, peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk (Peter Ceresole) wrote: >Now I've reached that venerable age of 70 Are you the same Peter Ceresole I once met in a pub in Birmingham with Simon Gray and Dave Mayall? -- Geoff Berrow (Put thecat out to email) It's only Usenet, no one dies. My opinions, not the committee's, mine. Simple RFDs www.4theweb.co.uk/rfdmaker
From: Peter Ceresole on 20 Feb 2010 07:44 Geoff Berrow <blthecat(a)ckdog.co.uk> wrote: > Are you the same Peter Ceresole I once met in a pub in Birmingham with > Simon Gray and Dave Mayall? As far as I know I'm the only one, so yes. What year was that? 2009? -- Peter
From: Geoff Berrow on 20 Feb 2010 09:10
On Sat, 20 Feb 2010 12:44:33 +0000, peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk (Peter Ceresole) wrote: >> Are you the same Peter Ceresole I once met in a pub in Birmingham with >> Simon Gray and Dave Mayall? > >As far as I know I'm the only one, so yes. What year was that? 2009? Give or take ten years... -- Geoff Berrow (Put thecat out to email) It's only Usenet, no one dies. My opinions, not the committee's, mine. Simple RFDs www.4theweb.co.uk/rfdmaker |