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Is the ZX81 / Timex Sinclair 1000 actually bad? Let's fix these to find out. | Adrian's Digital Basement (youtube.com)

submitted 4 days ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org

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People make fun of the ZX81/Time Sinclair 1000. It was a super cheap computer which had some questionable corners cut. Let's see if these three machines work, fix them if they don't and then see if these computers are worthy of praise or live up to their bad expectations.

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[–] adam_y@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That's a superb trajectory.

I went on to the +2A and then an Amiga 500. Loved that machine, but always the fondest memories for me were typing in code out of magazines on my ZX.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I "knew" the C64 was better but I always was in awe of the ZX Spectrum.

Sigh, good times!