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Telephone for someone who is deaf?
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Some type of antiquated, Stone Age PC? :P
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An antelope with a limp?
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Timex sinclair PC with either the Ram expansion module or the Speech processor?
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Post by GCNMario »

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.
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It's a .jpg
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Its your mother.

HA!

No really, that looks like something ET woulda used.
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Its a ZX81 with a 16kbytes RAM expansion.
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It's missing a space bar?
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right next to the m?
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a speak and spell? :lol:
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It's a GeoSafari.
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It's ugly
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Post by Flatlander »

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

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)
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Post by Mobius »

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. :)
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it's Bob Cinclair :)
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Post by Sage »

is it the uber new server running all the games at Shadow Lan? :wink:
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Post by Iceman »

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.
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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..
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You are old my friend :) ... Hate to break it to ya
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Heh -- explains why I'm constantly getting owned not only in D3 but Halo as well -- bad reflexes.. ;)
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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.
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Post by MehYam »

It's about a hundred times more stable than the average PC from 20 years into the future.
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Post by Nitrofox125 »

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.
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