30 Years Old Today
Not me, now that would take some imagination 🙂 The ZX81, probably the first cheap usable home computer.
This had me thinking about how times have moved on looking at my hobbies then and now. At the time I had an amateur interest in electonics. This lasted about 4 years and then lapsed as I could not find the money to support the hobby and go through university at the same time. 30 years on and I now find myself playing with hardware once again.
Looking back to 1981 we had the ZX81
- Z80 based system based on the MK14 computer kit (worked on by Chris Curry)
- 64 KBytes RAM
- Video output to TV
- Programs written in BASIC, stored as byte codes and interpreted
In 2011 I find myself playing with the Netduino
- ARM based processor (ARM was born from Acorn Computers which in turn was founded by Chris Curry)
- 60 KBytes RAM
- No video output
- Programmed in C#, stored as byte codes which are interpreted
Progress 🙂
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