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marx2k@lemmy.world to Vintage and Retro Ads, Promos, Fliers, Etc. @sh.itjust.works · 5 months ago

Build Your Own Sinclair ZX81 Ad, BYTE Magazine, Volume 7, Number 9, September 1982

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Build Your Own Sinclair ZX81 Ad, BYTE Magazine, Volume 7, Number 9, September 1982

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marx2k@lemmy.world to Vintage and Retro Ads, Promos, Fliers, Etc. @sh.itjust.works · 5 months ago
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  • Mac@mander.xyz
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    $80 in '82 is ~$260 now.

    • shalafi@lemmy.world
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      Damn. Just ran that and came to your comment.

    • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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      And now look at current prices for game consoles…

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

        • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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          Not so much a comparison as a criticism of prices of current consoles

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    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.worldOP
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      Merry Christmas :D

  • tracker@sh.itjust.works
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    Still have mine!

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      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.

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

      • tracker@sh.itjust.works
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        I added pictures to the root post

    • Clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works
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      Did you build it yourself? It looks awesome!

      • tracker@sh.itjust.works
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        Added pictures to the root post. Check it out

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          I shall, thank you very much!

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    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.

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      I love the putting it in a gutted A400.

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    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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