[ubuntu-uk] Ancient hardware - was Ubuntu Plans

paul sutton zleap at zleap.net
Wed Mar 7 22:03:32 UTC 2012


On 07/03/12 22:01, Barry Drake wrote:
> On 07/03/12 21:48, paul sutton wrote:
>> Ohh i am sure I have a few games on 3,5" floppy that ran on an acorn
>> risc/os machine, in fact I may have a manual for the Acorn Archimedes
>> somewhere :) Paul 
>
> I've still got my Sinclair ZX81 and the manual.  Maybe one day I'll
> dig out a 12v power supply and see if it still works.  I actually
> taught myself to program in Z80 assembler code on that one.  I found
> assembler easier to work with than basic.  Later, I found C and loved it.
>
> Regards,        Barry.
>
Cool,  I am sure I have a few books on the speccy and z80 assembler,  
my spectrum still works (I think) actually composite lead may be useful
for the raspberry PI.  will have to check,

Paul

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