Happy Birthday ZX81 *hugs* :D

quantumsheepquantumsheep Member Posts: 8,188
edited November -1 in Non-GS Game News
So, the iPad 2 is out today. But I thought it would be fun to wish the ZX81 a happy 30th birthday!

I never had one back in the day (I have three now I think!) but they were quite beautiful if you were a kid growing up in the UK.

Not as great as my beloved Spectrum of course, but it fired people's imaginations back then!

ZX81 - I salute thee!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12703674

Cheers,

QS :D

Dr. Sam Beckett never returned home...
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Comments

  • LuckyLurcherLuckyLurcher Member Posts: 343
    Also happy birthday to the BBC Micro computer which is also 30 years old this year. The first compute I ever used in 1981.
  • RiffelRiffel Member Posts: 1,272
    Wow Im have a zx spectrum, great machine!
    Congrats, and thanks to Sir Sinclair

    www.marcosriffel.com

  • quantumsheepquantumsheep Member Posts: 8,188
    *looks pitifully at LuckyLurcher*

    Riffel! Welcome to the family! *hugs*

    QS :D

    Dr. Sam Beckett never returned home...
    Twitter: https://twitter.com/Quantum_Sheep
    Web: https://quantumsheep.itch.io

  • osalzanoosalzano Member, PRO Posts: 136
    I used to have one, when I was 8 years old, in 1986. It was my first computer.
    My father had bought an IBM PC-XT for him and gave me his ZX81.
    In Brazil it was called TK82, with incredible 2 KB RAM! :P
    How I miss that time!

    Oswaldo.
  • butterbeanbutterbean Member Posts: 4,315
    Wow wish I had the opportunity to try that.. my very first computer game was Transformers for the Commodore 64, and very first arcade game was "Time Pilot" and I was forever hooked on games from that point on... :)
  • RiffelRiffel Member Posts: 1,272
    pedalagames said:
    I used to have one, when I was 8 years old, in 1986. It was my first computer.
    My father had bought an IBM PC-XT for him and gave me his ZX81.
    In Brazil it was called TK82, with incredible 2 KB RAM! :P
    How I miss that time!
    Oswaldo.

    Hi Oswaldo, I have that tk82 and learned basic computer language!

    www.marcosriffel.com

  • RiffelRiffel Member Posts: 1,272
    quantumsheep said:
    *looks pitifully at LuckyLurcher*

    Riffel! Welcome to the family! *hugs*

    QS :D

    Thank you :D

    www.marcosriffel.com

  • quantumsheepquantumsheep Member Posts: 8,188
    butterbean said:
    Wow wish I had the opportunity to try that.. my very first computer game was Transformers for the Commodore 64, and very first arcade game was "Time Pilot" and I was forever hooked on games from that point on... :)

    Oh my! You said the 'c' word! :O

    And yes, Time Pilot is a personal fave of mine too! :D

    QS :D

    Dr. Sam Beckett never returned home...
    Twitter: https://twitter.com/Quantum_Sheep
    Web: https://quantumsheep.itch.io

  • HoneyTribeStudiosHoneyTribeStudios Member Posts: 1,792
    Did you know the afore mentioned 'c' word is the biggest selling computer ever? According to wikipedia.
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  • gazjmgazjm Member Posts: 578
    But late to the party with this but I was a bit too young for the zx81, an my parents bought me a cpc464 colour screen instead of a spectrum, which was nice but a bit annoying as my friends had the zx spectrum 48k!
  • NexusGameStudioNexusGameStudio Member Posts: 265
    quantumsheep said:
    Oh my! You said the 'c' word! :O

    Show some C64 love, you know you do deep down inside.
  • quantumsheepquantumsheep Member Posts: 8,188
    shaz said:
    Did you know the afore mentioned 'c' word is the biggest selling computer ever? According to wikipedia.

    Well, there's no accounting for taste, right? ;)
    NexusGameStudio said:
    Show some C64 love, you know you do deep down inside.

    Oh, I have two of them now. But you know, back then, they were the enemy!

    A bit like the russians! ;)

    QS :D

    Dr. Sam Beckett never returned home...
    Twitter: https://twitter.com/Quantum_Sheep
    Web: https://quantumsheep.itch.io

  • mynameisacemynameisace Hull, UKMember Posts: 2,484
    I had an Atari 2600 and a Spectrum 128k. No C word for me... Dirty Russians haha

    Ace
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