OK enough with the Sinclair ZX Spectrum on to a computer that I wanted, but never had. Introduced in 1982. The Vice emulator was recommended but, required more work than I wanted to do. Every time I progressed in the Build some other package was not installed. So on to Z64k. Also highly recommended. It’s …
Monthly Archives: April 2024
IBM virtual card punch
Cool little card punch that creates card images. Here’s another.
I emailed someone about my ZX Spectrum Fuse problem
Regarding the previous problem. I got a reply saying to try entering Took me a minute to figure out how to do the above. You first press J, which shows up as LOAD on the screen. Then you press Ctrl-P twice for the 2 double quotes. Finally you press Enter. The ending L is flashing …
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Tried to use the Sinclair ZX Spectrum computer
Sinclair made other computers but the ZX Spectrum was their most successful in the UK, selling over 5 million machines. Timex sold a version in the US. I can’t deny it has a place in history, mostly in the UK. So I’m glad to learn something about it. But to me, it’s an awful, toy …
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The most useful retro computing
I really like vintage retro (is that redundant?) computing. It’s fun, to a point, to relive past experiences. However IMHO, only MVS 3.8J on IBM S/370, on up is still actually useful today apart from nostalgia. And that would be TK4- or TK5 running on the Hercules emulator. TK5 is probably the road forward. Because …
Z80 emulation and the Sinclair ZX Spectrum computer
I wrote some about this here. But I didn’t give any details. So here I am again ridiculously trying to review what I did before because my notes, if you can call them that, are slim to none. Anywho I saw something about the Sinclair ZX Spectrum computer, and I thought I did something with …
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Can’t login to my website host
I want to open a ticket about my BigNum problem, but getting an error trying to login. So I sent them an email. Silly me. I just needed to do a password reset.
git clone… Permission denied
You need the https:
BigNum
My Python program uploaded 3/26/2009, use to work. It produced numerical output of very large numbers… like this 952976583213159511560285536351556930590673943446666449132596280969464863863225773757590117823675375102926658163587326013745331203785511643981407619201067110103592819597539248458758385353952769810214919990039030950311258942897169655934761402829460310108279952464599403923795496051281894569987921943753or…952 octononagintillion976 septnonagintillion583 sexnonagintillion213 quinnonagintillion159 quattuornonagintillion511 trenonagintillion560 duononagintillion285 unnonagintillion536 nonagintillion351 novemoctogintillion556 octooctogintillion930 septoctogintillion590 sexoctogintillion673 quinoctogintillion943 quattuoroctogintillion446 treoctogintillion666 duooctogintillion449 unoctogintillion132 octogintillion596 novemseptuagintillion280 octoseptuagintillion969 septseptuagintillion464 sexseptuagintillion863 quinseptuagintillion863 quattuorseptuagintillion225 treseptuagintillion773 duoseptuagintillion757 unseptuagintillion590 septuagintillion117 novemsexagintillion823 octosexagintillion675 septsexagintillion375 sexsexagintillion102 quinsexagintillion926 quattuorsexagintillion658 tresexagintillion163 …
Simh Altair simulator
Using simh. Found here. The previous one here.