Guess what this is:

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Sun Jun 06, 2004 11:16 am

Telephone for someone who is deaf?

Top Gun · Post by **Top Gun** » Sun Jun 06, 2004 11:31 am

Some type of antiquated, Stone Age PC?

Flabby Chick · Post by **Flabby Chick** » Sun Jun 06, 2004 11:45 am

An antelope with a limp?

STRESSTEST · Post by **STRESSTEST** » Sun Jun 06, 2004 11:49 am

Timex sinclair PC with either the Ram expansion module or the Speech processor?

GCNMario · Post by **GCNMario** » Sun Jun 06, 2004 12:16 pm

It's a ZX81

Q: What the hell's a ZX81?

A: Good question. The ZX81 is a small home computer that was quite popular in the early eighties. It was built by Sinclair Research (who also made the Mk14 kit, ZX Spectrum, ZX80 and QL computers.)

It was a highly revolutionary design, containing only four integrated circuits. Most machines at the time needed twenty or so. This allowed the machine to be produced very cheaply, making it the first computer in the UK available for less than a hundred pounds.

The ZX81 was released in North America as the Timex-Sinclair 1000, and marketed by Timex. A TS-1500 was a TS-1000 with 16K of RAM built in.

Over a million ZX81's and TS-1000s were sold worldwide.

index_html · Post by **index_html** » Sun Jun 06, 2004 12:37 pm

It's a .jpg

Avder · Post by **Avder** » Sun Jun 06, 2004 1:39 pm

Its your mother.

HA!

No really, that looks like something ET woulda used.

lars · Post by **lars** » Sun Jun 06, 2004 2:13 pm

Its a ZX81 with a 16kbytes RAM expansion.
Lars

Will Robinson · Post by **Will Robinson** » Sun Jun 06, 2004 2:18 pm

It's missing a space bar?

kurupt · Post by **kurupt** » Sun Jun 06, 2004 2:35 pm

right next to the m?

Duper · Post by **Duper** » Sun Jun 06, 2004 3:07 pm

a speak and spell?

Jeff250 · Post by **Jeff250** » Sun Jun 06, 2004 6:07 pm

It's a GeoSafari.

Darkside Heartless · Post by **Darkside Heartless** » Sun Jun 06, 2004 7:19 pm

It's ugly

Flatlander · Post by **Flatlander** » Sun Jun 06, 2004 7:40 pm

It's Holly's (from Red Dwarf) first love! Everyone said it was a bad idea, she was stupid, cheap and wouldnâ??t loadâ?¦

snoopy · Post by **snoopy** » Sun Jun 06, 2004 8:58 pm

A primitive cell phone?

(have you noticed that cell phones are starting to actually get bigger now? They have these massive mini PDA/Laptop "Cell phones" that are hideious)

Mobius · Post by **Mobius** » Sun Jun 06, 2004 10:34 pm

Sinclair ZX-81 computer. From memory, 1MHz, 16KB of RAM with a 16KB RAM expander on the back. I had one of these - as well as the follow up item: The ZX-Spectrum.

roid · Post by **roid** » Sun Jun 06, 2004 11:11 pm

it's Bob Cinclair

Sage · Post by **Sage** » Sun Jun 06, 2004 11:38 pm

is it the uber new server running all the games at Shadow Lan?

Iceman · Post by **Iceman** » Sun Jun 06, 2004 11:50 pm

It's my long lost first computer!! Really ... I had one and it lasted about a month before I had to upgrade to a TI-99.

Grendel · Post by **Grendel** » Mon Jun 07, 2004 1:49 pm

Arghh, get it off, get it off... Stomp on it.. *crunch*

Still got one of those at my parents place, incl. the whooping 16kb memory block on the back and a custom made "joystick" (Atari type) interface. Gee, I suddenly feel so old..

STRESSTEST · Post by **STRESSTEST** » Mon Jun 07, 2004 2:11 pm

You are old my friend

... Hate to break it to ya

Grendel · Post by **Grendel** » Mon Jun 07, 2004 2:26 pm

Heh -- explains why I'm constantly getting owned not only in D3 but Halo as well -- bad reflexes..

CritterB · Post by **CritterB** » Mon Jun 07, 2004 9:31 pm

Check out dvd jon's blog
http://www.nanocrew.net/blog/
for the pic of him as a kid. It's weird that I was posting to a thread about online music with dvdJon's blog link right after I read this thread and happened to scroll down and see the pic.

MehYam · Post by **MehYam** » Tue Jun 08, 2004 2:14 pm

It's about a hundred times more stable than the average PC from 20 years into the future.

Nitrofox125 · Post by **Nitrofox125** » Tue Jun 08, 2004 3:51 pm

Truly I think crashing computers is really a thing of the past. We had tons of power packed into machines, and they couldn't handle it. Thus all the crashes for a few years there. My original computers had 10 or so crashes a day. I've had four computers all for about a year, and I have not had a single crash on any of them, ever.