Pleased to provide this opportunity to speak on the pages of
an electronic newspaper ZX CLUB. For a start would like to
share with beginners (and not) my computer experience.
For the first time confronted with computer technology,
working at the plant "Kristall" adjuster CNC machine tools - it
was a machine D3-28. It even had two books: "The artillery
fire" and "Landing on the moon." Thanks chief Vladimir Shilyaeva
G., all offices Promelectronika
soon turned into geeks. The first is that we have collected -
16k version RK-86. The assembly of the Micro-80 "stop
only the absence of PCB layout.
Then there was a whole saga with "experts"
of "Model Builder". Bribed, no deficit, scared away the lack of
PCB layout. Drawing layout
themselves on a larger scale on graph paper. On drawing and
layout gone three months. Two days drew nitro
two-sided card to foil glass fiber. The funny thing is that all
later earned.
Then, in the office came a terrible monster
8-inch floppy disks, tractor drive and a defective loading,
which was called "Iskra-226". After that, the cars from GDR
"Robotron-1715" show me riding excellence and an accomplishment.
At this time, rumors have crept ZX
SPECTRUM, though the processor Z-80 at the flea market was
worth half of my salary. Then I collected a second version of
"RC-86 with 32K of RAM, Modified Zherebtsov Vasilevsky color,
stereo image and likeness STA-modem (and, he did it for a
couple of years earlier than similar published
in the magazine "Radio"). A bureau plans were
never realized later, "Irisha" and "Ocean". And then we saw the
Spectrum. After the cars with character "graphics" has been
tested by a light shock. We began to gather for
themselves and friends, "Leningrad" options
(43 case). Fortunately, the market began to fill with
relatively cheap motherboards, processors, RU 5-ples. Main
enemy, with copying programs from tape, became the home
refrigerator, and in our offices brain repair center Spectrum,
thoroughly study the work of the processor, was Alexander
Zakharov.
Around this time, the work appeared first IBM-compatible
"ikstishki" on which were viewed as aliens from outer space.
Prior to this machine with the hard drive I do not seen. And
our magazines for amateur radio as if there were in another
world. "Young technician" in its bosom, as a mockery, breeding,
"UT-88. Remove the logs for the year and read the
advertisement. Computer, supposedly, was created for those who
difficult to collect "RC-86" or "Specialist" with the details
contained more than one and the other put together and had no
"seals". The magazine "Radio" began to "Orion", but about
Spectrum - a word. The only widely
publications are available magazines
Radio amateurs "and" ZX-Revue ". I do this
Time is so lazy that "the Pentagon-48 just bought it. Finally
freed cassette, which was immediately recorded
"Heavy" music.
During the last three years I have had IBM-compatible
machines: 88, 286, 386 DX40, 586 AMD-133. With about half a
year ago began to torment persistently nostalgia the good old
Spectrum toys - was acquired by the Pentagon-128 "with music
coprocessor. Both computers are perfectly coexist. In addition,
was found a good emulator for IBM'ki. Concluded that the choice
of machines is necessary to proceed two principles: 1)
appropriateness; 2) price. The pursuit of quality is infinite
and not always justified if it is not caused
necessity. For example, I have seen her
friend "McIntosh" firm Epple. Good
machine, but costs three times more
Pentium. Why does she need a home? Each
must decide for himself what he
needed and for what he computer. Perhaps
incurred the wrath of professionals, but with a Pentium
Windows at home - it's the firing of guns on
sparrows. Maybe Bill Gates is therefore
became the richest man in the world that
manufacturers of hardware to it to pay extra for
swelling of the programs that require all
new resources and new machines (at the time,
as before, it was valued more: the ability to
programmer to write succinct in content and
not in terms of memory, the program). As a result, users of
every half-year produced an inferiority complex. As one friend
of mine: "I was disappointed in the computer the same way as
and in marriage: first, all is well, and then
let's just money. "
Personally, I need a laptop for two purposes: working with
text (for this I have AMD-133); simple games during leisure.
There is enough of Spectrum (incidentally, 1300
Spectrum games on gigabyte "screw"
safely occupied 110 megabytes). I would
did not want to Spectrum and software
providing him "dead." Therefore, a ZX CLUB, appeal to all: who
saw CD-ROMs with software and
games for ZX SPECTRUM emulator for IBM,
Call me at work - ITC APO CRYSTAL
44-36-22. Ask Oleg Krotov.
