Re: Are you alone tonight?--

[Darren Spiteri <Spit@spam-free.UUCP>]

On Tue, 05 Jan 1999 10:32:14 +0000, John G.Burns wrote:
> > I learned BASIC on a Sinclair ZX80.  It was white.  My friend who
> > owned it had ordered it as a kit, but it came already assembled.
> > He was a little disappointed by that since he looked forward to
> > assembling it!  Another friend had a Vic-20.  I liked that much
> > better.  I soon bought a Vic-20 for my very own.

> Big problem with the VIC (Video Interface Controller!) was it's 3.5K of
> RAM which I don't THINK was easily expanded. I learnt on a ZX81 with
> 16K, that keyboard crippled me for life.

The VIC-20 has 5k ram, easily expanded to >16k with plug in memory carts. For
the record, they didn't wobble and make your computer crash unlike certain
other mentionables.
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