:homo: Mine was better than yours those because I had two 16K RAM packs on the back.:24: Used to love loading games from a tape recorder which made funny screeching noises for about 5 minutes and then failed to load because the volume wasn't at exactly the right setting and the instructions never told you what that was anyway! Not!:24: Remember the fun of writing out a long program in BASIC for hours on end to play some crappy game, not being able to save was a bastard for this too! My cousin once spent 12 hours non stop trying to make a cricket game, he had nearly finished when his sister ran in the room and accidently kicked the plug out of the socket!:willy_nilly::willy_nilly::willy_nilly:
oh I still miss it to this day! By the time I had upgraded (well, my parents upgraded me to a Commodore VIC20) I had the memory pack, and a proper keyboard for it. So cool. I was still using my ZX81 for BASIC programming up to the late 80s... Hey, remember a TV show called "The Whizz Kids"? They hacked into NASA on a ZX81!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vRyKslGrGk
My full computer history:
ZX81
Commodore VIC 20
ZX48
Amstrad CPC464
Commodore Amiga A500
Compaq Windoze computer
Apple LC475
Apple PowerMac
Apple iMac
Apple Lombard Laptop
iBook G3 Clamshell
Apple G4 titanium Laptop
iMac G5
iMac 27" & MacBook & iPhone
damn, a lot of computers...