Monday 23 April marks the 25th anniversary of the ZX Spectrum! It was my first programmable computer. It had a 3.54Mhz Zilog Z80A microprocessor with only16Kbytes or RAM and only16Kbytes or ROM. Tha’s right, there was a time when the amount of ROM was part of the computer’s specs. After a few months, I ordered the chips for expanding the RAM to a mind-boggling 48Kbytes and I felt like I finally could get the Lisp environment to work at full speed. Yup, there was also a Prolog environment. It was the time of the ’software houses’, the most important for that time was Melbourne House. Happy birthday, Spectrum. I owe you my first experience in programming and you will always have a special place in my RAM.
See also World of Spectrum
3 responses so far ↓
1 cezko // May 1, 2007 at 6:44 am
KByte… not Kbit
2 Saltor // May 2, 2007 at 3:12 am
Io conservo ancora il mio completo di tutto!
I ricordi sono tantissimi. Viva lo ZX Spectrum!
3 yus // May 2, 2007 at 11:42 am
good catch, cezko. I fixed it.
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