Unboxing your new acquisition
My original ZX81
Still in its original box
They came with full box or sleeve
Stamp of Sinclair
Imaginative curving of the 'styrene
Extra added keyboard and interface
The Spectrum in a similar style of box
Informative guide on the box
A simple rectangular tray this time
Filled with goodies
Spectrums were not originally 48K
But they all still needed the work when
it came to feeding data onto the machine
There really was no shortage of programs
The problem was finding the time to type
all of the lines in. And debugging was a
nightmare. Not only were you likely to
have made mistakes, but the code itself
could be wrong in places
Games were easier to deal with
Some of the classics
Some of the classics
Some of the classics
Some of the classics
Some of the classics
Some of the classics
Some of the classics
Games on the ZX81 were a touch more rare
Well good ones that is.
Programs tended to be more utility based
Useful applications
Databases
This was more your normal Speccy tape
Over-written music cassettes
In a new garbled language
All forgotten now but seriously important
stuff at the time.. Especially Oracles Cave
That game kept me up night after night.
The End
