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better late than never - Graham72 - 13-09-2025
I just realised I didn't say hello, a few years ago.
As a 20 yo I used to frequent the Tandy store in Albury in the late '70's and learnt a bit on the store machines.
When I was22 yo, my brother in law was a salesman at City Personal Computers in Sydney, he sold his motorcycle to fund his Apple II purchase with a CP/M card and double disk drives and graciously allowed me many hours on it. Christmas 1981 he gave me a zx80, and for himself a modem. I think it was a Dick Smith model, but the years dull recall. Anyway between Christmas and New Year we got the modem working and he dialled into a university computer in California. WOW! BBS became a source of programs over the next 10 years
It was another 20 years before the WWW was a thing! Your Computer magazine was the read in 1982/3 and I published a ZX80 program for $100! Advertisements for the Microbee piqued my interest as I had outgrown the ZX80. I got my 'bee and enjoyed it immensely.
Online magazine, Your Computer and the program books were a never ending source of ideas. I had a Epson FX80 printer, but cassette tape was limiting. However I learnt the various types of sorting data, and how great arrays can be.
My brother in law lent me a XT for several months and I got used to hard drives, MSDOS, dBaseII and Windows 286. Sadly I sold my Microbee, magazines, tapes and books to a woman who wanted it for her teenage son, hopefully he got as much joy from it as I did.
It was with joy I stumbled across this forum several years ago, but life events stopped me pursuing it at that time. The past month has been great as I have reacquainted myself with MicroWorld Basic and CP/M, et al. The biggest struggle has been relearning the use of eg a1$(;4,8) etc to parse strings.
I'd like to say thanks to uBee, Admin and Chickenman especially. I really appreciate the opportunity to relearn Microbee computing using the emulator and the .dsk and rom images. Also thanks to all who have contributed to the forum with hints, tips and comments. The amount of information and resources are overwhelming but I'm winning, I think.
RE: better late than never - ChickenMan - 14-09-2025
An official welcome to the forum even if it's many years to late
Glad to hear your having fun with the emulator and our dsk's and roms etc bringing back times of the past.