RE: [ukha_d] Raspberry Pi - £15 computer

["Jim Franklin" <jimf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Alex,=20

I had to read your post to the board a couple of times then, to make sure
that I hadn=92t actually posted it myself!!

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That sounds very much like me of the late 70=92s early 80=92s.=20=20

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And these days I am currently working with IT =93technical=94 people who
do=
n=92t
know how to configure a serial port in windows, let alone actually know
wha=
t
it does and heaven forbid I ask what goes on inside the PCs,

The good thing about it is that I have an almost unlimited supply of
=93dea=
d=94
systems that they =93throw-away=94 because the =93system is dead=94

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(I missed a full sized skip full of complete PCs (minus the hard disks that
were sent for secure destruction) that were scrapped due to
=93miscellaneou=
s
faults=94 whilst I was on holiday though).

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Jim

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From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Alex Monaghan
Sent: 16 May 2011 21:58
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Raspberry Pi - =A315 computer

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=20=20

Glad it's not me, I found the school teachers seemed to have no idea what
was under the lid of a computer, even A level didn't seem to have any
programming content.

Good to know there were others programming the cassette port of their ZX81,
I had mine able to recognise different sounds and do actions dependant of
the frequency! I initially worked in assembler converting to hex, but then
found myself actually coding directly in hex direct into a hex loader
missing out the assembler stage completely. The joys of looking up the Z80
references to find the number of clock cycles to decide what instruction to
use for optimum performance :-)

This does look an interesting little gizmo though, lots of potential HA use
for a little device like this!





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