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    #11
    Originally posted by AtW View Post
    I never had ZX81 - wanted Atari based computer, called an ad for a guy who was selling Atari and colour TV in early 90s, he quoted price that was like annual salary of my both parents

    It was tulip architecture anyway - some years later I got finally PC at home and that's when the legend of SKA has begun...
    I paid £10 for a broken ZX81. I bought a Vero Board (BCP) and 50 + push switches (about £5) to make a home-made keyboard. It had about 30 connections that I soldered to the main board.
    "A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims, but accomplices," George Orwell

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      #12
      Originally posted by Paddy View Post
      I paid £10 for a broken ZX81. I bought a Vero Board (BCP) and 50 + push switches (about £5) to make a home-made keyboard. It had about 30 connections that I soldered to the main board.
      In Soviet Unions they were giving 10+ years in jail for hard currency spekulants

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        #13
        Working?
        Kind of!!
        Had to drive down to Truro to babysit some antenna riggers as they did some replacement work. Then make a few test calls and kerching!!
        Easy money!!
        Back home and drinking my first beer now!
        “The period of the disintegration of the European Union has begun. And the first vessel to have departed is Britain”

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          #14
          Originally posted by shaunbhoy View Post
          Had to drive down to Truro to babysit some antenna riggers as they did some replacement work. Then make a few test calls and kerching!!
          Are you still stuck in your bottom of the pit mobile antenna site test monkey?

          Here some peanuts for you to supplement your ultra-cheap Tesco Lager

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            #15
            Originally posted by AtW View Post
            Are you still stuck in your bottom of the pit mobile antenna site test monkey?
            If I knew what one of those was I could answer you. I would explain some of what I do, but as you are so glacially slow on the uptake on most things, I shan't waste my time as it would go so far over your head it would leave a vapour trail.


            Originally posted by AtW View Post

            Here some peanuts for you to supplement your ultra-cheap Tesco Lager
            Keep your peanuts. You might need them as a deposit on your next bedsit. I'll stick to my luvverly Banana Bread Beer!
            Mmmmmmmm.....shlurp!!

            “The period of the disintegration of the European Union has begun. And the first vessel to have departed is Britain”

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              #16
              Originally posted by shaunbhoy View Post
              If I knew what one of those was I could answer you.
              I can see clearly now (not that I needed this confirmation) that your schooling was very poor - had you been through Soviet school you'd know how to give very good asnwer about things you've never heard of

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                #17
                Originally posted by AtW View Post
                I can see clearly now (not that I needed this confirmation) that your schooling was very poor - had you been through Soviet school you'd know how to give very good asnwer about things you've never heard of
                That is because, when you go through Soviet schooling, there are so many more things that you've never heard of.

                HTH
                “The period of the disintegration of the European Union has begun. And the first vessel to have departed is Britain”

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                  #18
                  Originally posted by shaunbhoy View Post
                  That is because, when you go through Soviet schooling, there are so many more things that you've never heard of.
                  Exactamundo.

                  Queues was one thing I won't have to hear or see ever again when I escaped to UK from the Soviet Russia

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                    #19
                    Originally posted by AtW View Post

                    Queues was one thing I won't have to hear or see ever again when I escaped to UK from the Soviet Russia
                    We still have queues here AtW. People get very particular about adherence to protocol. I hope you have not been flouting convention in this area??

                    “The period of the disintegration of the European Union has begun. And the first vessel to have departed is Britain”

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                      #20
                      Originally posted by shaunbhoy View Post
                      We still have queues here AtW. People get very particular about adherence to protocol. I hope you have not been flouting convention in this area??
                      Queueing to get into a bus was sure a novelty for me - at first I thought: BINGO those old ladies got no chance to get into the bus first before me!

                      it's not like you are queing to swap your bread stamps for actual bread

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