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by alun
Wed Nov 23, 2022 3:44 pm
Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
Topic: Spectrum namedrops...
Replies: 31
Views: 9445

Re: Spectrum namedrops...

Realised last night I forgot this one - I went to school with ZZKJ.
by alun
Tue Nov 22, 2022 9:58 pm
Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
Topic: Spectrum namedrops...
Replies: 31
Views: 9445

Re: Spectrum namedrops...

I went to college with Julian Todd, author of Fat Worm Blows a Sparky. Nice guy. Studied more than I did.
by alun
Tue Nov 22, 2022 8:34 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: Introduce yourself!
Replies: 672
Views: 184391

Re: Introduce yourself!

Hi, I'm Alun, here's my Sinclair history: My neighbour got a ZX-80, and I helped him use it, because he's a lawyer. My brother got a ZX-81 for good exam results, and I was the one who spent most of the time using it. We got a 16K RAM pack for it, too. I learned how to do machine code on it, using ty...
by alun
Tue Nov 22, 2022 5:41 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: Tapes with wobbly sound
Replies: 15
Views: 679

Re: Tapes with wobbly sound

I recently resurrected my old Spectrum 48k. Buying that in the first place required me to stuff so many newspapers through letter boxes. It strikes me that we've got so much technology these days - Autotune, Fourier Transforms, etc, etc, that we should be able to put into play to fix our old tapes. ...