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| From | Matthew Westcott <gasman@raww.org> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.sys.sinclair |
| Subject | Re: ZX81 30 years old |
| Date | 2011-03-13 12:30 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <8u3rn3F11rU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
| References | <jvGdnf_hqur2yezQnZ2dnUVZ8jgAAAAA@brightview.co.uk> <ildnio$5og$1@speranza.aioe.org> <ili0uv$o47$1@news.eternal-september.org> |
On 13/03/2011 08:58, M.O.B. i L. wrote: > Matt Rudge wrote: > >> Auntie has weighed in with her tribute today: >> >> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12703674 >> >> A little late, but on the front page nonetheless :) > > In the article it says that the ZX Printer was a thermal printer when in > fact it was a spark printer: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spark_printer>. If that's the biggest error they've made, they've done pretty well. After the recent Telegraph article about the Elite relaunch [0], I was reading this one bracing myself for the inevitable point where they refer to it as a console, or reminisce about floppy discs, or just completely confuse it with the Spectrum... and I was very pleasantly surprised. Thumbs up for the Beeb, I say! [0] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/video-games/8304237/ZX-Spectrum-relaunch-gaming-goes-back-to-the-future.html
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