Date   : Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:43:09 +0000
From   : zeem.uk@... (Alex Taylor)
Subject: "I don't use a computer at all" - Sinclair

On 1 March 2010 16:22, Anders Carlsson <anders.carlsson@...> wrote:

> I can't remember if that article was linked before, but it makes at least
> two interviews with Sinclair in two months:

This is interesting - I seem to remember that Sir Clive very rarely
gave interviews.


On 1 March 2010 15:47, Tim Matthews <tim.matthews@...> wrote:
> "People could tap in a few keys and make the display do some strange
> things" - the display from a ZX80 did strange things all by itself!

There's a ZX80 at work, belonging to the head of the ICT department.
He occasionally shows it to classes on the basis of "this is what
computers used to be like". I found the power supply in the science
prep room - all I need to do now is take an RF lead to work and hook
it up to the LCD TV that's connected to the CCTV box in the store
room.

On another Sinclair note, I also found a Cambridge Z88 in the same
store room, but it doesn't seem to power on. There's also the ZX81
with 16K RAM and printer that I was given on the other site, which all
seems in working order. I certainly didn't spend any work time
downloading Space Invaders from the Internet, copying to a cassette
and playing it (I also found three TRS-80 branded tape recorders).

-- 
Alex Taylor