Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Sinclair ZX Spectrum
Thrilled to see this news today. This sort of rekindled my old memories as this was the first computer.
It was called a "home computer" those days and PCs were extremely costly and reserved to the corporates. The computer needs to be plugged into a tv to be used. The microprocessor used was developed by Clive Sinclair in UK.Though the graphics were not all that great as we have these days, who cares about those when your aim was to learn the art of progamming. It supported a customised version of Basic called the Sinclair-Basic. It was more or less similar to MS Basic.
It also supported games which needs to be loaded on its rom by way of audio tapes using a walkman. Later on there were micro drives introduced which can be used as an accessory. The programs done can be saved in the audio tape if your walkman supports record function.
I am sure you would agree it would have been real fun using this for an 10 yr old.. Thanks to my father...
It was called a "home computer" those days and PCs were extremely costly and reserved to the corporates. The computer needs to be plugged into a tv to be used. The microprocessor used was developed by Clive Sinclair in UK.Though the graphics were not all that great as we have these days, who cares about those when your aim was to learn the art of progamming. It supported a customised version of Basic called the Sinclair-Basic. It was more or less similar to MS Basic.
It also supported games which needs to be loaded on its rom by way of audio tapes using a walkman. Later on there were micro drives introduced which can be used as an accessory. The programs done can be saved in the audio tape if your walkman supports record function.
I am sure you would agree it would have been real fun using this for an 10 yr old.. Thanks to my father...
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