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Re: Sinclair ZX81 37th anniversary!

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Subject Re: Sinclair ZX81 37th anniversary!
Date Mon, 5 Mar 2018 15:21:27 +0000
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On Mon, 5 Mar 2018 01:40:43 -0800 (PST)
Shaun Bebbington <shaun@square-circle.co.uk> wrote:

> Yes, it's 37 years since the launch of the famous Sinclair ZX81.

Gulp. Pass the zimmer frame.

(The anniversaries I really dread are the Amiga ones, though. Even
at the age of 9, I knew the '81 was a bit of a creaky old bodge-job,
albeit one of funkiness and skillosity. But the Amiga was The Future
once.)
 
> Here's a random maze generator for you:
> 
> 10 PRINT CHR$(RND*7);
> 20 GOTO 10
> 
> You're welcome!

Feel the AWESOME POWER of the ZX81! How many lines of code would it
take to do that in your fancy modern Javascript, eh?

-- 
Duncan Snowden.

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Sinclair ZX81 37th anniversary! Shaun Bebbington <shaun@square-circle.co.uk> - 2018-03-05 01:40 -0800
  Re: Sinclair ZX81 37th anniversary! Duncan Snowden <duncan_s@talktalk.net> - 2018-03-05 15:21 +0000
    Re: Sinclair ZX81 37th anniversary! "Brian-Gaff" <briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2018-03-11 15:02 +0000

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