Life in 8-bits

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Sinclair ZX81 - my 8bit days were spent typing in BASIC, hoping each time the power plug wouldn't wobble and lose it all... While dreaming about thinks like Colour Graphics and Sounds!!

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My first intro was actually a ZX80, but the first machine we owned was also ZX81, rehoused in some sort of breadbox style keyboard into which the 16K RAM pack also fit.

After that it was the ZX Spectrum, 48K rubber keyed glory!

So you got a ZX81 with a proper keyboard? That still seem like some kind of upper class luxury from where I'm sitting... Oh?!? What and 16k?!? Posh bastered x

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Didn't the 16KB RAM pack cost twice as much as the actual computer?

No idea, I was MUCH too poor to afford one then! Though I do have two ZX81s now both with 16k ram packs