10 PRINT "THANKS SIR CLIVE!"\n 20 GOTO 10

RIP Sir Clive Sinclair, without your ZX 81 and Spectrum this geek might not have been quite so lucky

 

Did your ZX81 have an HPIB port on?

 

Hahahaha, I'm not sure, at the time, I knew what GPIB was, but do I seem to have one, or two, of those sorts of things lying around nowadays

 

ZX81, and cassette player, and loads of plugs and wires, and getting permission from your mum to plug into the telly and retune it. Then listening to the squealing while the game loaded up.
Then just as you’d finally got it going…”Teas ready Bobby, turn that off now”.
I reckon I’d made it when I eventually got a commodore 32 AND my own portable tv in my bedroom.

 

I still remember the Christmas that my parents bought me a 48k Spectrum. Omg I loved that thing.

Chucky Egg. Manic Miner. Attic Attack. Jet Pack etc etc.

thanks sir Clive. Rest in peace and thanks for all the memories.

the irony is I loved computers then. First a Texas TI99/4a. Then a 48k Spectrum. Then a Commadore64.

I hate computers now. Thanks windows

 

My favourite memory of the zx 81, was having to balance it on a book so as to allow the 16k rampack to fit in the back. If you wobbled it while trying to load a game..

Good times!

 

for louey

 

We had one of the later ones with the disc drive and the gun…. Which meant more wires and an ancillary tape deck to borrow the games your mates had… albeit they’d moved on by then.

still didn’t work very well

we used to catch my fad settling in to play the shooting game after we’d gone to bed!

 

Don't knock that RAM pack

 

Also, didn’t he die yesterday? Has it taken that long to load the news!?

 

They were good days, we used to get the games magazines with the pages of basic code and type them in by hand. We learned patience and debugging the many errors, often the programs had misprints that made it even more fun.

My son kept the ZX81 Spectrum and BBC B with its floppy disc drives and rgb monitor.

 

Wish I had a C5, they are worth big money these days.

 

I still have my old Spectrum 128K plus several 48k's and zx81's I have picked up since the 90's. My 128K lives permanently on my desk with a cassette player (WHSmith branded) to the left of it so I can listen to those screeches any time I want .

 

Buy a Tesla. It’s much the same thing

 

Very fond of the ladiiiies, was Clive….

 

RIP Sir Clive

My FIL still has a Spectrum. I wonder if we've got a tape player...

 

Yes, one line at a time