Sinclair Spectrum or Commodore 64?
My first computer was a Sinclair ZX81. I had it about a year before I switched to a Sinclair Spectrum and a couple of years later I moved on to Sinclair QL.
Some friends of mine had a Commodore 64. They were more expensive, better hardware, but less accessible when it came to programming, IMHO, at least using Basic. So my friends did more gaming and I did more programming.
Did you have any of these? Which camp were you in?
- Sinclair (Spectrum) (17%, 20 Stimmen)
- Commodore 64 (40%, 46 Stimmen)
- Acorn (BBC) (8%, 10 Stimmen)
- Amstrad (1%, 2 Stimmen)
- Other (20%, 23 Stimmen)
- None (12%, 14 Stimmen)
Jan Lehnardt
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Als Antwort auf Jason Morse • • •@cloudhands , that is how I started as well. There was a UK magazine, available in Iceland, that was called Sinclair programs. I would type in programs from that magazine into my ZX81 or Spectrum. Then I would spend time finding typos and bugs... You better be accurate! Learned a lot from that.
One issue with the ZX81 was the RAM pack. After typing for hours, I might push the machine slightly and it would reset... The joy... You might ask why one would not save all the time, but saving on diskette just takes a while.