my first computer graphic

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    pah, you were spoilt ! :)
    I had a ZX81 in 1984.
    It had 1k ram, which was nearly enough to hold a full screen of text for writing programs.
    I couldnt ever get tape games to load from my cassette player, so I had mastered the BASIC book in about 2 months..
    The challenge of making a payable game in 1k is something I couldnt do today..games tended to be of the form..
    'steer the inverse K between the commas. If you complete the course, you get error code 4 (out of memory). If you crash, RUN again'..

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