Re: Remember the Nascom II ?
Dave, the NASCOM II should be listed as No 1 out of all these computers !
My dad bought one of these and we spent christmas '79 soldering all the of IC socket s (100's of pins) as it came as a kit. A great computer for learning about HW and Assembler programming. I remember saving for a whole year so I could purchase an extra 16K of memory and fill up the 32K expansion card.
I purchased a PASCAL compiler and was writing programs before we even had a computer at school.
My Dad still has the NASCOM II stored away in the attic, I have kept my old telly (which works) and someday will try powering it on.
Memory lane: A school friend purchased a ZX80 and I went to see it, I laughed my head off as when he pressed too hard on the "keyboard" the memory expansion box wiggled and reset it !
But it was the start of bringing affordable computers to the masses - so well done Sir Clive Sinclair and all the other developers.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
