Paul Williams skrev:
>The Letters page of these magazines are as interesting as some of the
>articles. Of course, when we're talking about over 20 years ago in a
>hobbyist magazine, the letter-writers of one issue were quite likely to
>write articles in the next.
It's sad how utterly worthless PCW had become ten years later.
>Two extracts for you.
>>From David C. Broughton of Northwood, Middlesex, in the November 1978
>issue:
> Here is a little puzzle to test your readers' 8080 machine ingenuity:
> "Imagine you possess an 8080 with 64K bytes of read/write memory
> which you want to clear. Write a program that sets all 65536 bytes
> to zero."
Seemed like a piece of cake until it dawned upon me that the program has got
to be stored somewhere. =/
>>From P.F.T. Tilsley of Loughborough, Leics., in the May 1979 issue:
> The choice of the Z80 for a home system at this time is perhaps a
> little rash because of the choice of 16 bit processors making
> their appearance. A better choice would probably be the Z8000
> which is due to be available in the next few months.
>Three years later, I still bought a Z80 system. Ho hum.
Well, the definition of a home system had probably changed a lot during those
three years. 1981 home systems were probably a lot cheaper and less involved
than a 1978 one. And with a different target group, too, I think.
Apart from the extremely short-lived Commodore 900, were there any other Z8000
based systems? It seems odd to me how a company which was a giant in the 8-bit
market didn't even make a dent in the 16/32-bit one.
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