I used my zx81 to create star systems for traveller, never considering the inability to print them out!
On 01/07/2020 08:16:28, Andrew Holmes via groups.io <nitpickergeneral@...> wrote:
That brings back memories of using my Sinclair Spectrum for wargaming. I still have the book and the Spectrum in a cupboard somewhere. I wrote a program for WW2 desert warfare which was play tested at a local fair. Debugging it as we went. What fun.
Kind regards Andrew Holmes
On Wed, 1 Jul 2020 at 0:54, Doug Melville
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Sinclair Basic on a ZX81, stored on a C60 cassette, which stubbornly refused to load 90% of the time. A program to generate random D&D encounters.
:)? It got much too big.
First Basic program I wrote was stored on a 5 3/4"?
And the last.
Den tis 30 juni 2020 20:00Doug Melville <dougmelville@...> skrev:
I was digging around in some old junk yesterday and came across a 3.5¡± floppy, which I showed to my 20 year old nephew.
He at least didn¡¯t comment something along the lines of ¨C ¡®cool, someone 3d printed the save icon¡¯.
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I remember with the 5.25¡± ones you could get double duty out of them by clipping the case and turning them over.
Not reliable but a damn sight better than tape cassettes.
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And the college was still showing the use of punch cards when I started there.
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