Thanks for the memories.. A few friends and I purchased the TS1000 (2Kb)in the Summer of 1983. The TS1000s were being discounted and cleared-out here in the SFO Bay Area at the regional Payless Drug Stores for approx $ 50. The optional accessory 16Kb Upgrade Ram unit went for ~ $30. Pushing down to hard on the membrane keyboard would cause the Ram Pack to lose connectivity and crash a running program.. So we were very careful of this. We spent hours taking and expanding code lines of simple games from the available Timex Basic programming books. A few years later we graduated to the Commodore64. And in 1987, like "many" people reading this thread , I managed and sold TRS-80s at two regional Radio Shack stores.
Those games had versions in Portuguese. Actually, I think the ts 1000/1500 were made here, TJ. By Timex Portugal :) Love your sound effects. This is so good :)
Thanks man. This was truly nostalgic. The Ts1000 was my first computer. Frogger was my first game as well as pinball. I also wrote my first program on it. Not too long after that my dad brought home a TRS-80.
Sinclair is what it was called in the UK, A MEMOTECH MTX512 with the twin 5" floppy drive MTX512FDX and the MTX512HDX units and the CPM/80 package would be worth getting as it has a built in assembler and HEX Editor called Panel and a text system called NODDY.
Good video! I think I may have that Pinball game, that you are playing! I remember, that you could buy Timex-1000 tapes in: K-Mart, Montgomery Ward and Hills stores. K-mart even had the display of a Timex-1000 in a case along with the tapes you could buy on the side of the display! Only wish I would have taken a picture of it! I cannot get over the size of your cassette player, Don't think I have ever seen on that big!
I had bad luck with buying cassette players so far. 1st nice Sony purchased on eBay was DOA. 2nd one a nice small Realistic Minnisette that worked but then did not. Had a HIGH squeel from it and raspy noise and cleaning and demag head did nothing so appeared to be an electronic issue. So, 3rd time... this bug guy... also DOA. Sheesh, sellers don't test stuff before the send. Say it is fine. This last one the rubber belt was no even inside any more. Melted. Blakc goo all over. After spending hours working on it and finding a generic belt, it now seems to work but is big. HAHA. I want to buy a smaller one again but kinda gun shy now as they all seem to arrive bad.
Quite an iconic system, that tapedeck is a beast of a device. I believe computer tape-decks should indeed be far bigger than the computers they are connected to by default.
Nope, not yet. Don't think cased Next are shipping yet. My guess when the 1st batches ship the Kickstarter will post a update letting folks shipping has started. Hoping we see them in Feb 2020.
the 16k packs are cheaply found on eBay. Not sure on the Rabbit cassette. Never heard of it. I would see if any have sold on auction sites to figure that out.
Thanks for the memories.. A few friends and I purchased the TS1000 (2Kb)in the Summer of 1983. The TS1000s were being discounted and cleared-out here in the SFO Bay Area at the regional Payless Drug Stores for approx $ 50. The optional accessory 16Kb Upgrade Ram unit went for ~ $30. Pushing down to hard on the membrane keyboard would cause the Ram Pack to lose connectivity and crash a running program.. So we were very careful of this. We spent hours taking and expanding code lines of simple games from the available Timex Basic programming books. A few years later we graduated to the Commodore64. And in 1987, like "many" people reading this thread , I managed and sold TRS-80s at two regional Radio Shack stores.
Long Live Radio Shack. ;-)
Those games had versions in Portuguese. Actually, I think the ts 1000/1500 were made here, TJ. By Timex Portugal :) Love your sound effects. This is so good :)
Thanks man. This was truly nostalgic. The Ts1000 was my first computer. Frogger was my first game as well as pinball. I also wrote my first program on it. Not too long after that my dad brought home a TRS-80.
Sinclair is what it was called in the UK, A MEMOTECH MTX512 with the twin 5" floppy drive MTX512FDX and the MTX512HDX units and the CPM/80 package would be worth getting as it has a built in assembler and HEX Editor called Panel and a text system called NODDY.
Good video! I think I may have that Pinball game, that you are playing! I remember, that you could buy Timex-1000 tapes in: K-Mart, Montgomery Ward and Hills stores. K-mart even had the display of a Timex-1000 in a case along with the tapes you could buy on the side of the display! Only wish I would have taken a picture of it! I cannot get over the size of your cassette player, Don't think I have ever seen on that big!
I had bad luck with buying cassette players so far. 1st nice Sony purchased on eBay was DOA. 2nd one a nice small Realistic Minnisette that worked but then did not. Had a HIGH squeel from it and raspy noise and cleaning and demag head did nothing so appeared to be an electronic issue. So, 3rd time... this bug guy... also DOA. Sheesh, sellers don't test stuff before the send. Say it is fine. This last one the rubber belt was no even inside any more. Melted. Blakc goo all over. After spending hours working on it and finding a generic belt, it now seems to work but is big. HAHA. I want to buy a smaller one again but kinda gun shy now as they all seem to arrive bad.
Looking forward to the day when you get your Spectrum Next, you won't be disappointed as it's an amazing computer which is very feature packed.
Amazing they could program action games on that thing! It was such limited hardware even in its day. Happy 2020 to you TJ.
Same to you. Hope your 2020 is rocking good!
Agreed! It's utterly incredible to me that this was coded.
I guess scarce resources bring out the ingenuity.
Quite an iconic system, that tapedeck is a beast of a device. I believe computer tape-decks should indeed be far bigger than the computers they are connected to by default.
Hi friend@,great Micro Zx programation Basic and codes.The simple is speed,the imagination in Zx is very important for limits memory!¡
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You're missing the blu-tack to keep the ram pack on
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Nice toys! Greetings from Greece
I have the EU version zx81 but haven't had time to play with it (or any of my toys) since I moved :(
Cool video TJ! Did you get your ZX Spectrum Next yet?
Nope, not yet. Don't think cased Next are shipping yet. My guess when the 1st batches ship the Kickstarter will post a update letting folks shipping has started. Hoping we see them in Feb 2020.
@@MacSociety Very cool! Congrats man. I wanna get in on the next Kickstarter they do. Don't know if I'll be able to, but would be awesome if I could.
@@mattmyers9351 Got mine a few weeks ago, it's a gorgeous machine and very feature packed beauty.
@@HuntersMoon78 cool! I want one, but I didn't back the Kickstarter. I hear they are doing a second Kickstarter campaign.
BEAUTIFULL VIDEO!!!!!
If you like pinball then you should try 1K hires pinball
I recently came across a TS1000 16k Pac Rabbit cassette in its case from 1983. I know nothing about it or even if it works. Is there value to this?
the 16k packs are cheaply found on eBay. Not sure on the Rabbit cassette. Never heard of it. I would see if any have sold on auction sites to figure that out.
@@MacSociety Thanks so much!
Hi, that Sony takes TV input?
Yes, all your common connections. Old TV coax, HDMI, VGA, RCA component. Nice display.