Inspired by Legacy Systems

[ace00]

They've been there 10 years this december...

Are you planning a party? Can I come with my ZX Spectrum (broken)?

[Nexxy]

Oh, my God, you're from the Sixties! Out! Back to the Sixties! Get back! There's no place for you here in the future!

[Zippy]

Oh, my God, you're from the Sixties! Out! Back to the Sixties! Get back! There's no place for you here in the future!

Beehive hair dos, mini skirts and blokes in white lab coats with clipboards.

Ee them were the days ..

[RSoles]

...late on parade as usual.
Here's the first micro I 'programmed' (flipped switches on).

http://www.virtualaltair.com/virtual..._mainframe.asp

RS.

[scotspine]

pascal, punched cards. then moved up to fortran 77 on a dec pdp-11. spent some time on the 6502 platform (if you could call it that) then all of a sudden, was working with com, dcom & mts. wouldn't go back there either

[NickFitz]

I've got a ZX Spectrum (broken) too..

Plus a ZX Spectrum with an add on teletext receiver thingie that did work when I tried it 16 years ago... and now has a limited use up to August 12th, when the analogue tv gets switched off...

Come to think of it, I disassembled the eprom to find out how it worked...

My first job after University was writing embedded real time software for Teletext transmission systems in Forth and assembler

It's been a long time since I read the Teletext spec, complete with explanation of the Hamming codes used for error correction in the magazine number and row address, and additionally for various bits in the page header