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  Happy Birthday Jupiter Ace Geoff <gwearmouth@gmail.com> - 2012-09-21 00:59 -0700
    Re: Happy Birthday Jupiter Ace "Brian Gaff" <Briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2012-09-21 09:36 +0100
    Re: Happy Birthday Jupiter Ace Duncan Snowden <duncan_s@talktalk.net> - 2012-09-21 13:58 +0100
      Re: Happy Birthday Jupiter Ace Dylan Smith <dyls@alioth.net> - 2012-09-24 10:17 +0000
        Re: Happy Birthday Jupiter Ace Duncan Snowden <duncan_s@talktalk.net> - 2012-09-24 17:57 +0100

#1424 — Happy Birthday Jupiter Ace

El Reg has a lovely in-depth article on the development of the Ace to celebrate its 30th Birthday.

http://www.reghardware.com/2012/09/21/jupiter_cantab_jupiter_ace_is_30_years_old/

-- 
Geoff
http://www.reghardware.com/2012/04/27/retro_week_basic_instinct/page2.html

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#1425

I never did get my head around Forth. Reminded me of that annoying game the 
Towers of Hanoi.

Brian

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"Geoff" <gwearmouth@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> El Reg has a lovely in-depth article on the development of the Ace to 
> celebrate its 30th Birthday.
>
> http://www.reghardware.com/2012/09/21/jupiter_cantab_jupiter_ace_is_30_years_old/
>
> -- 
> Geoff
> http://www.reghardware.com/2012/04/27/retro_week_basic_instinct/page2.html 

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#1426

On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 00:59:21 -0700 (PDT)
Geoff <gwearmouth@gmail.com> wrote:

> El Reg has a lovely in-depth article on the development of the Ace to
> celebrate its 30th Birthday.
> 
> http://www.reghardware.com/2012/09/21/jupiter_cantab_jupiter_ace_is_30_years_old/
> 

I always wanted one, and always wished I'd learned Forth. Now, after
reading that article, I *really* want one and *really* wish I'd learned
Forth. Bit late for the latter now, although I might have a nose around
t'interwebs and see what's what.

The trouble with the Ace - apart from the obvious: mono graphics after
the Spectrum came out, low memory (even if it “didn't need it”),
rubbishy ZX80-style case, etc. - was that despite the designers' genius
in getting a compiled, library-based language to work on cassette
storage, it was still a bit of a kludge. If they'd waited a couple of
years and used a more traditional implementation of the language on
floppies it might have been a different story.

-- 
Duncan Snowden.

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#1456

On 2012-09-21, Duncan Snowden <duncan_s@talktalk.net> wrote:
> I always wanted one, and always wished I'd learned Forth. Now, after
> reading that article, I *really* want one and *really* wish I'd learned
> Forth. Bit late for the latter now, although I might have a nose around
> t'interwebs and see what's what.

A couple of members of the Spanish forum Zonadepruebas have made a DIY
Jupiter Ace board. They had some fully assembled ones (without the case!)
too. You'll probably have to google for it though. It was done late 2010
or early 2011.

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#1462

On Mon, 24 Sep 2012 10:17:38 +0000 (UTC)
Dylan Smith <dyls@alioth.net> wrote:

> On 2012-09-21, Duncan Snowden <duncan_s@talktalk.net> wrote:
> > I always wanted one, and always wished I'd learned Forth. Now, after
> > reading that article, I *really* want one and *really* wish I'd
> > learned Forth. Bit late for the latter now, although I might have a
> > nose around t'interwebs and see what's what.
> 
> A couple of members of the Spanish forum Zonadepruebas have made a DIY
> Jupiter Ace board. They had some fully assembled ones (without the
> case!) too. You'll probably have to google for it though. It was done
> late 2010 or early 2011.

Interesting. Although it wouldn't be the same as a real one. I'm pretty
sure I can't afford one of those.

-- 
Duncan Snowden.

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