Nostalgia

[Gerald Combs]

On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Duane Attaway wrote:

> You guys have always been spoiled.  Why back in my day, I had to assemble
> my Sinclair computer from parts (I still have and use that Weller
> soldering iron from 1981.)  And it had a single 1K dynamic RAM chip.  The
> 3.58MHz Z80A CPU had to calculate the screen graphics during the video
> scan cycle.  Only between sweeping the CRT screen could I do any
> calculations.  Let me mention most of that 1K of memory was for the screen
> and system variables.

If you had waited 20 years, you could have just loaded a web page:

    http://www.vavasour.ca/jeff/ts1000/

It's a T/S 1000 (aka Sinclair ZX81) emulator implemented as a Java applet.
The T/S 1000 was my first computer.  Typing in a 16K program on that
membrane keyboard was a challenge.