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C4Cat said:
Not sure why anyone would want one :unsure: Is it a love of retro stuff? What would you do with it mostly? Play old games?
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It and the ZX 80/81 were the dawn of decent programming (AKA coding) for the masses, along with the "BBC". You became a creator and wizard in your own universe! :cool:
Nothing today will give you that level of understanding or satisfaction (IMHO ;- )

I even wrote a game for the Spectrum, sold a few copies locally but it was a flooded market in the U.K.
 
Brian_G said:
It and the ZX 80/81 were the dawn of decent programming (AKA coding) for the masses, along with the "BBC". You became a creator and wizard in your own universe! :cool:
Nothing today will give you that level of understanding or satisfaction (IMHO ;- )

I even wrote a game for the Spectrum, sold a few copies locally but it was a flooded market in the U.K.
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I dabbled a bit in BASIC, modified a few "type-ins"... unfortunately the tapes was lost in a heap forever ;(
 
Brian_G said:
It and the ZX 80/81 were the dawn of decent programming (AKA coding) for the masses, along with the "BBC". You became a creator and wizard in your own universe! :cool:
Nothing today will give you that level of understanding or satisfaction (IMHO ;- )

I even wrote a game for the Spectrum, sold a few copies locally but it was a flooded market in the U.K.
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Yeah, I had a ZX Spectrum back in the day, with a tape recorder and a little thermal printer that had silver paper! Learned to program in Basic with GOTO statements:X3:.

But I'm still not sure why anyone would want one today!
 
C4Cat said:
Yeah, I had a ZX Spectrum back in the day, with a tape recorder and a little thermal printer that had silver paper! Learned to program in Basic with GOTO statements:X3:.

But I'm still not sure why anyone would want one today!
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Don't want one, answering what it was used for... before you mentioned you had one.

Daruk said:
Sandy White was a Wiz... back in those days you didn't fiddle with Basic...
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Assembly code / machine code - found it horribly tedious, but what some blokes do with it is impressive.
My game wasn't a graphic type, was a memory board game. Basic could handle that well, and the choice detail of the program used up almost all of the RAM.

EDIT: Removed comment about the emoticon, misunderstood what that is. Looks like a bum :giggle:
 
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SlinkyMike said:
My youngest is programming robots in Scratch, using the GoPiGo kit. She does it as an extramural at school and she's super interested in Python now as a result of that. I'll take it.
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Yeah so many of these “kids of today” type comments floating around.

Yet they’ve got their own cool **** to play with.

How old is she?
 
I got my working ZX Spectrum with joystick adapter, original BASIC guide, etc at a church bazaar for R 10 many years ago. I learnt a valuable lesson in backups when, after working on an app for almost a week, the power went out while I was saving the latest version. The first half of the current version and the second half of the old version = absolutely nothing usable.
 
SlinkyMike said:
She's seven, 2nd year of school. I couldn't be happier with the way things are shaking out. I only saw computers when I was 12 and I thought that was early, today that would be a definite stunt in skill development as kids are getting there much earlier now.
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Lekker.

Mine is only 5 now but I believe they start ramping this up with robotics next year.

Hopefully I can get her more into it before then.
 
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