MrPixel wrote: ↑Sat Apr 14, 2018 12:48 am
of course i wasn't there. i was born in '93. so yes, i was not there at the dawn of micro computers. what a silly response
No, my response wasn't silly. And how on Earth could I know when you were born before I asked?
As you didn't understand "why the zx81 is so slow" or "why sell computers with only 1K RAM" I just wanted to know if the reason was that you just didn't grow up with technology having those limitations, but being born in '93 explains precisely why you ask those questions. Which is okay. I just wanted to know where the questions came from.
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MrPixel wrote: ↑Sat Apr 14, 2018 12:48 am
of course i wasn't there. i was born in '93. so yes, i was not there at the dawn of micro computers. what a silly response
No, my response wasn't silly. And how on Earth could I know when you were born before I asked?
As you didn't understand "why the zx81 is so slow" or "why sell computers with only 1K RAM" I just wanted to know if the reason was that you just didn't grow up with technology having those limitations, but being born in '93 explains precisely why you ask those questions. Which is okay. I just wanted to know where the questions came from.
it's my fault for overreacting. sorry. and yes, the vcs had about 4k, expandable to 8 with bank switching
i appreciate it..but i am dead tired. me and my mother just came from jackson and i bought a linux PC for 27 dollars. so, excuse my disinterest for now...please
MrPixel wrote: ↑Fri Apr 13, 2018 12:26 am
the TS1000 had only 1k of ram, up to 16k maximum and i can't figure out why they would sell such a misleading product for 100 dollars. "Now the power is within your reach" went the advertisements. but that "Power" was only available with the expansion. you would've had a better chance with the zx81(despite it's slow refresh speed, i prefer it, if only for simplicity's sake)
what were they thinking?
I've been on holiday so a bit late to this but the answer, in a word, is... marketing. Yes, Sir Clive's crew could've made the ZX81 with 16K of RAM built in but then it'd have to have retailed at £/$149.95 (or whatever). But, at that time, getting a home-computing product down below £/$100 was a crucial psychological barrier. Something had to give. Well, lots of things gave -- and the RAM quotient was but one. Basically, *everything* about the ZX81 was about hitting that price point. If Sir Clive couldn't hit that price point, the ZX81 wouldn't have happened.
