Oh dear Phil, you sound as young as I do.<br><br>How about the Commodore Pet in 1979? then a soldered together computer from a kitset and resembled a ZX80 and had a whole 1kb of memory to play with.<br><br>A couple fo years later I remember a discussion with someone telling them for a serious business computer you needed at least 16kb of memory and even a disc drive.<br>
<br>I still have an early Osborne 1 computer - anyone with the old 8 inch floppy Panasonic lying around in a back bedroom?<br><br clear="all">Steve Peacocke<br><br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Phil Scadden <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:p.scadden@gns.cri.nz">p.scadden@gns.cri.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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> ok, here we go then....... who had a a ZX81 then eh?? better stil<br>
> who had a ZX81 with a 16kb expansion pack ?? (apart from me)<br>
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Nah, my tape-drive only TRS-80 was way cooler. :-)<br>
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