[wellylug] Linux on Antique Boxen

Rob Giltrap - Ubiety Group rob at ubietygroup.com
Tue Nov 26 10:40:51 NZDT 2002


Donald Gordon wrote:

>>On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 08:39, Donald Gordon wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>My first computer had 48k (fully populated!).  And TV out - something
>>>the present box struggles with.
>>>      
>>>
>>My first computer, a ZX81, had 1Kb of RAM :-)
>>    
>>
>
>Any system that uses its main CPU as a substitute character generator must
>have had some serious chip-count constraints :-)
>
>don
>
The ZX81 was a fantastic machine... the plastic keyboard was coffee 
proof and the 1k of memory prevented OOS in programmers as you would 
always run out of memory after coding for an hour.

I would love it if Sir Clive put out a 'Sinclair - LinuX81' type machine



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