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    From Benny Pedersen@2:237/53 to Jean Parrot on Tue May 11 16:54:06 2010
    Hello Jean!

    11 Sep 2009 14:50, Jean Parrot wrote to George Vandervort:

    Nice but I would not waste MY time doing this art. I would not even know
    where/how
    to start.

    with a zx81 ?

    make a basic program that render into ascii, just remember zx81 just have 1k ram, nothing more nothing less, but it could maybe do som sine curves to show how much 1k ram could do ?

    zx81 have a zilog z80 cpu running as fast as 4mhz, and the basic rom is just 8k, ram is expandelbe to 64k, and if one had a harddisk for this beast it could
    run cpm just fine


    Regards Benny

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  • From Jean Parrot@1:123/789 to Benny Pedersen on Wed May 12 09:53:50 2010
    Benny wrote:

    make a basic program that render into ascii, just remember zx81 just
    have 1k ram, nothing more nothing less, but it could maybe do som sine curves to show how much 1k ram could do ?

    I believe that the C=64 had even less, I was using one to do AX-25 on 2m and
    HF. No speed demon.

    zx81 have a zilog z80 cpu running as fast as 4mhz, and the basic rom is just 8k, ram is expandelbe to 64k, and if one had a harddisk for this beast it could run cpm just fine

    I had experience with a Zilog-80 in a Sat-Nav receiver around 1985, teething
    years for sat-nav. It was quite good but again, no speed demon. When Garmin came out with their model 50, I ended up giving the Z-80 to a friend apartment-bound as he wanted to study it.

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