Re: ***NEED HELP PLEASE***

On Sat, 14 Oct 2006 00:24:45 +0100, "RJK" <notatospam@xxxxxxxxxxx>

I had a Sinclair ZX Spectrum (with proper keyboard - the deluxe model)

Ahh!! Another fellow member of the ZX Mafia, the secret cartel who
dominate the top tier of today's world of IT (not!) <g>

Yep, I had one too... still have it in a box somewhere. Mine was a
48k "dead flesh" keyboard from 1984, which was 2 years after it came
out... I got to know that beast really well, from building hardware to
writing ROMs for it, before going 286, PICK R83 and DOS 3.3 in '88.

I can remember buying floating point processor chips to plug into the
floating point processor socket on those motherboards, so that DOS based
spread*** programs like SuperCalc were usable !

I've kept a few classic parts, like a genuine IBM XT 4.77HMz
motherboard with co-processor that's also covered in support chips
made by AMD (yep, they were there since *those* days). I also have
belt-driven full-height 360k floppy drives, a full height 10M hard
drive and my one-time pride; 3 x 80M full-height hard drives.

80486's ...80486 DX/2 66mhz etc. and several DX/2's after that

The first PCs I built "pro" (as in, business name and VAT invoice)
were 486DX2s still running Win3.yuk... I'd built PCs since 1989's 286s
from auction parts, then for pals from the 386 era. I have a book on
the 386 processor and its assembly language from that time, and their
speculation on how OSs could properly multitask and manage memory
didn't appear under an MS wrapper for many years after that.

Fortunately I never bought the first Celeron that had NO L2? cache, and was
almost unusable !

Quakers loved it, because it was overclockable and Quake's code was so
tightly assembled that it stayed within L1 most of the time. But I
agree, I thought they sucked, and so did the market; Intel had to kill
it off in well under a year. OTOH subsequent Celerons rocked.



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