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Re: Sinclair ZX81 ZXPand Interfaces Now Available

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On 6/7/2011 8:30 AM, rwap wrote:
> On Jun 7, 11:41 am, "TheHairyBeast"<Emort...@hotmail.com>  wrote:
>> I was not aware of that.  Is there any version of the software he wrote and
>> used avalible on the web?

>> A bbs on a spectrum is no large feat, but on a zx-81, well thats been my
>> holy grail for the last 5 years or so. I've  actualy started making one
>> this week. The ZXpander has just what is needed to make it happen.

>> I never had any of the early 80's disk systems for the zx81 like the
>> larken, or microdrives, so I had tried to make a BBS that would operate
>> entirely in the 64K memory expansion I had. it proved to be to much for me
>> to pin down.

>> "Peter Liebert-Adelt"<pe...@zschopower.de>  wrote in message

We ran a mostly BASIC structure BBS on a Timex 2068 for 1-1/2 years back 
in the midlate 1980's, the only bit of machine code was to fetch and 
receive data from the modem. It also trapped a lot of extranious codes 
so that anyone trying to crash the BBS would fail, mainly only accepting 
valid ASCII codes for the printable charactor set.  We had a lot of the 
common BBS features for the 1980's.
  I can not recall anything in the basic that would prevent it from 
running on a ZX-81 to TS-1000 with maybe only a minor bit of program 
conversions.
Some of the various elements in it were kept on the mass storage 
(floppy) and merged in as needed.
One thing the TS2068 allowed me to program was a fairly decent clock 
routine so we could have date and time stamped messages left in the BBS.

I think there is some documentation stored far deep in my pile of packed 
away stuff still.

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Sinclair ZX81 ZXPand Interfaces Now Available rwap <rich@rwapservices.co.uk> - 2011-05-30 01:51 -0700
  Re: Sinclair ZX81 ZXPand Interfaces Now Available "dott.Piergiorgio" <dott.PiergiorgioNIHON@KAIGUN.fastwebnet.it> - 2011-05-30 12:25 +0200
    Re: Sinclair ZX81 ZXPand Interfaces Now Available "Rich M (RWAP Services)" <rwap.services@gmail.com> - 2011-05-30 05:51 -0700
      Re: Sinclair ZX81 ZXPand Interfaces Now Available "Ian B" <noemail@invalid.invalid> - 2011-05-30 18:55 +0100
        Re: Sinclair ZX81 ZXPand Interfaces Now Available "TheHairyBeast" <Emort007@hotmail.com> - 2011-06-02 17:47 -0400
          Re: Sinclair ZX81 ZXPand Interfaces Now Available Peter Liebert-Adelt <peter@zschopower.de> - 2011-06-05 19:30 +0200
            Re: Sinclair ZX81 ZXPand Interfaces Now Available mick <not.here@invalid.invalid> - 2011-06-05 22:26 +0000
              Re: Sinclair ZX81 ZXPand Interfaces Now Available Wayne Weedon <wayne@fdos-design.com> - 2011-06-06 00:03 +0100
            Re: Sinclair ZX81 ZXPand Interfaces Now Available "TheHairyBeast" <Emort007@hotmail.com> - 2011-06-07 06:41 -0400
              Re: Sinclair ZX81 ZXPand Interfaces Now Available Peter Liebert-Adelt <peter@zschopower.de> - 2011-06-07 14:26 +0200
              Re: Sinclair ZX81 ZXPand Interfaces Now Available rwap <rich@rwapservices.co.uk> - 2011-06-07 05:30 -0700
                Re: Sinclair ZX81 ZXPand Interfaces Now Available Hp <Ferd@fred.net> - 2011-06-07 23:15 -0400

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