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Build Your Own Sinclair ZX81 Ad, BYTE Magazine, Volume 7, Number 9, September 1982 (lemmy.world)
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[-] Mac@mander.xyz 24 points 3 months ago

$80 in '82 is ~$260 now.

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Damn. Just ran that and came to your comment.

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago

And now look at current prices for game consoles...

[-] Mac@mander.xyz 3 points 3 months ago

I don't think that's a good comparison.

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago

Not so much a comparison as a criticism of prices of current consoles

[-] psychonova@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 3 months ago

oh damn, thank you for posting this! I had one of these as a kid but could never remember exactly which one it was but that jogged the memory instantly

[-] marx2k@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Merry Christmas :D

[-] tracker@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 months ago

Still have mine!

[-] 1ns1p1d@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I wish I still had mine. 3D monster maze, 1k chess, nightgunner, gulpman.

My neighbor had a zx80. I remember playing a game on that too, but i don't remember what it was.

[-] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

Did you build it yourself? It looks awesome!

[-] tracker@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

Added pictures to the root post. Check it out

[-] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

I shall, thank you very much!

[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Me too. Luckily I had a friend who studied electrical engineering who helped me put it together.

[-] tracker@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

I added pictures to the root post

[-] tracker@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 months ago

Mine, highly modded, inside a gutted Atari 400 box. Has a homemade hi-res module 256x192, Sound board AY-3-8912, homemade keyboard, modified ROM with extra functions, dual boot with assembly compiler, 10KB ROM, 6KB Static RAM, 16KB Dynamic RAM.

[-] marx2k@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

I love the putting it in a gutted A400.

[-] Hikermick@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

TheTimex Sinclair (assembled) was marketed as the first home computer for under a hundred bucks ($99). A buddy of mine ran a BBS dedicated the Sinclair. He ran it on a Commador 64

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