Just for fun

[Cybe R. Wizard]

Thorny <thorntreehome at gmail.com>  said:
> Anybody else ever have a Sinclair Z-80? It had a whole 1K RAM and
> BASIC was built-in in ROM and it loaded programs from a tape drive
> (voice tape drive with a data quality tape). Video was composite to a
> TV. It was common for it to take several restarts for the tape to be
> correctly read. It's where I started to learn to program in BASIC,
> was an affordable little box which was capable of holding my attempts
> at "Hello world" Price was around $100 USD, or maybe a little bit
> more, I shudder to think what that would be in today's dollars.

I have one of those now.  It worked when put away (not by me) but I have
yet to connect the tape recorder and TV (Just a little bit lazy, me).
When last I checked it was bringing US$200 or better on Ebay.

Cybe R. Wizard
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