| jrwren | cmaloney: you ever see a Realistic Minisette-10 14-1000 ? | 02:28 |
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| jrwren | ever seen one operate with data adapter to a computer? | 02:28 |
| cmaloney | I remember seeing them in the catalogs, but don't recall them on a computer | 03:37 |
| jrwren | i've no idea what made me think of it last night... well... yes I do... i was looking at retro computer pics and it must have trigged a memory. | 13:13 |
| cmaloney | Ah | 14:20 |
| cmaloney | I think I have one picture of it hooked to a ZX Spectrum+ but I'll be damned if I can find that picture | 14:21 |
| jrwren | I may have used it with a ZX spectrum at one point. | 17:58 |
| cmaloney | Did you have a ZX Spectrum? | 17:59 |
| cmaloney | I thought that was unique to the UK | 17:59 |
| cmaloney | There was the Timex 2068 that was similar to the Spectrum but not quite | 18:00 |
| cmaloney | and the Timex 1500, which was the ZX81 /TS1000 but with 16K in a Spectrum-style silver case | 18:00 |
| Scary_Guy | Speaking of a friend just gave me a small C64 keyboard. Nothing else though but at least that was saved. | 18:03 |
| jrwren | I'm not sure what I had TBH. My dad bought it at a garage sale for liek $10 or $20 long after it would have been cool. | 18:05 |
| Scary_Guy | That just makes it extra cool | 18:05 |
| jrwren | it was tiny, like a spectrum, but it had a weird membrane keyboard. | 18:07 |
| jrwren | oh... Sinclair ZX80, I htink. | 18:08 |
| jrwren | yeah, i remember the tiny ram. 1K was terrible by the time I got it. | 18:08 |
| jrwren | I remember hitting hte memory limit and thinking, WTF, I'm just a kid! | 18:09 |
| jrwren | it came out in 1980, but it didn't get to me until sometime around 86, 87 or 88. | 18:09 |
| jrwren | I don't really remember when. | 18:09 |
| jrwren | hrm... might have been a ZX81. | 18:11 |
| jrwren | actually... zz81 pcb3 looks about right. TY wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX81#/media/File:Sinclair_ZX81_PCB_Revision_3_Keyboard.JPG | 18:11 |
| jrwren | the cool thing about the cassette interface was you'd hit play on the Realistic Minisette-10 14-1000 tape deck and since it was in remote mode it wouldn't spin. Pressing play only engaged the read head. executing LOAD caused the spin to start | 18:13 |
| Scary_Guy | Neat | 18:14 |
| cmaloney | Yeah, it was probably a TS1000 | 18:24 |
| cmaloney | though it could have been an actual ZX81 | 18:24 |
| cmaloney | There's also this beauty: https://www.timexsinclair.com/product/cassette-recorder/ | 18:29 |
| cmaloney | https://desktoplux.com/?id=1456 <- jrwren | 22:16 |
| cmaloney | It's a Grundig, not a Realistic that's hooked to this Spectrum+ | 22:16 |
| cmaloney | http://podstawczynski.com/retro/beauty_shots.html <- better link | 22:17 |
| jrwren | noice | 23:21 |
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