Hello from Chesterfield
Posted: 05 Apr 2021 12:16
Hello all
I’m new to the world of the MTX (but have various add ons for my ZX81) - back in the day we had Sinclairs and then a BBC Model B which we managed to persuade the folks to get based on its educational value. And to be honest I owe my IT career to my beeb.
I recently saw a reasonably priced 512 on a popular auction site and having lusted over them in magazine adverts BITD (somehow they just looked like ‘proper’ serious computers) I decided to go for it. It was untested but luckily worked pretty much straight out of the box, well, poly inserts, no sleeve.
Thanks to advice from Mark on Stardot I have changed the three main caps that may need doing and also changed the link on the video board so I now have a lovely colour composite picture - it was black and white when I got it and the RF is a bit dodgy.
I wasn’t actually going to register on here straight away as given the lack of freely available mass storage devices I didn’t think I would be using it much initially but a REMEOriser has just ‘fallen into my lap’ so here I am! Doubtless with a million questions to follow once I am set up...
My main interest at the mo is programming - currently I am learning Hisoft C on my Tatung Einstein but this has a number of issues:
The keyboard is a little flaky, especially the CTRL key, which is a nightmare for control code driven development.
The 80 column card is great but only has 20 or so rows which makes writing stuff on it difficult.
Its huge. It takes up most of my desk!
It looks like a combo of the MTX and REMOMORiser may solve many or all of these problems, especially with the 80 by 48 VGA output.
I’m new to the world of the MTX (but have various add ons for my ZX81) - back in the day we had Sinclairs and then a BBC Model B which we managed to persuade the folks to get based on its educational value. And to be honest I owe my IT career to my beeb.
I recently saw a reasonably priced 512 on a popular auction site and having lusted over them in magazine adverts BITD (somehow they just looked like ‘proper’ serious computers) I decided to go for it. It was untested but luckily worked pretty much straight out of the box, well, poly inserts, no sleeve.
Thanks to advice from Mark on Stardot I have changed the three main caps that may need doing and also changed the link on the video board so I now have a lovely colour composite picture - it was black and white when I got it and the RF is a bit dodgy.
I wasn’t actually going to register on here straight away as given the lack of freely available mass storage devices I didn’t think I would be using it much initially but a REMEOriser has just ‘fallen into my lap’ so here I am! Doubtless with a million questions to follow once I am set up...
My main interest at the mo is programming - currently I am learning Hisoft C on my Tatung Einstein but this has a number of issues:
The keyboard is a little flaky, especially the CTRL key, which is a nightmare for control code driven development.
The 80 column card is great but only has 20 or so rows which makes writing stuff on it difficult.
Its huge. It takes up most of my desk!
It looks like a combo of the MTX and REMOMORiser may solve many or all of these problems, especially with the 80 by 48 VGA output.