[ale] a moment of silence please

Dave Weiner davew at coyotetechnical.com
Thu Apr 29 10:09:45 EDT 2010


On Apr 29, 2010, at 10:04 AM, Scott Castaline wrote:

> On 04/29/2010 08:34 AM, Thompson Freeman wrote:
>> My mother wanted to join in the computer revolution, and in
>> consultation with a dealer, her sons, and some other
>> information settled on a KayPro lugable with dual floppies
>> and DP/M using WordStar. When it was time to retire the
>> KayPro about 1987, we shifted her to a Mac, and spent close
>> to two years trying to get her to use the mouse instead of
>> the WordStar diamond for cursor control.
>>
> I seem to remember Timex had a small home computer, I think it was
> called Sinclair. My father had gotten one of those things in a give  
> away
> thing when they 1st came out. I believe it was built on the Z80, not
> sure of the OS though.

If I remember correctly, Sinclair came out with one first, called the  
ZX-80.  Shortly after that, they joined forces with Timex or were  
bought, and the Timex Sinclair ZX-81 came out.  I have a ZX-81 in  
storage up in PA that worked the last time I powered it up :)

Dave


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