ZX Spectrum Next - Unboxing

[DoctorStrangelove]

Farnell don't sell Z80s any more but RS still carry them.

[LondonManc]

Still got my Spectrum and a shedload of games, just no tape player.
Instead, I head off to worldofspectrum.org which has pretty much everything that you'd want.

[unixman]

As a vic20 and then commodore 64 owner i cant relate to this post.

The only nostalgic thing about this is the "256 x 192" resolution.

Also the max resolution of my Dragon 32.

[unixman]

Or the 68008.

I find it odd that the Z80 is still in current production whereas the 6809 died the death 25 years ago, and the 68008 about 10 years ago.

It's a funny old world.

It is odd. At Sunderland Polytechnic in the late 80s, I was learning assembler on a 6809. Even then it was seen as more modern than a Z80. But the Z80 goes on. ICs appear to be like that - eg. you can still buy 555 timers and 741 op amps, products that were common when I was still at school.

[Zigenare]

Farnell don't sell Z80s any more but RS still carry them.

I sit corrected.

[Platypus]

I’d start the school's PDP-8/e by inputting the machine code bootstrap for the high-speed punched paper tape reader in binary, via the toggle switches on the front

I was always an Acorn guy myself

Are you sure we didn't know each other back in the day?

Although at my school it was a Data General Nova, which I'd start by inputting the machine code bootstrap for the high-speed punched paper tape reader in binary, via the toggle switches on the front

Then I went to work at Acorn for a short while... Lion Square