Tomato666

Have you heard that the over 50's are doing day time raving. Back home by nine/ten to sleep.

Day time rave

But thed did have an escape in 2008, I think they stole a tool bag (one went missing, so it must have been the spiders) Escaped spiders

In the UK some shops would sell you a single cigarette for less the ten of our new pennies. Around '86 I think.

The moon is a harsh mistress.

I hope that cat is called Zorro

The UV light box was a separate device and not part of the Z88 itself.

you'd put the EPROM devices in it and let them cook for 20 minutes or so to clean them of previous data written to them.

Yes, but only to test it was functional.

It was just so cool that it had this built in and I guess it could be used to write a bit of code that could run and do some processing in Z80 whilst other bits could be in BASIC which was easier to use.

This was in the summer of 1988 and the company was on the east side of Cambridge (UK). It was Clive Sinclair's new outfit after he'd sold the previous stuff to Amstrad. I think the new company was called Cambridge Computer Ltd.

I just had a holiday job doing testing of the OS it ran.

I think it has three slots at the front that can take a memory expansion. The memory being an EEPROM, maybe as large as 128Kb. Erasing them was done using a UV lamp (in a box).

It was a good bit of kit, but the screen space was too small to be of much use and it was overrun by the PC explosion that was coming.

Oh wow, what a blast from the past!

I worked on this device for a summer holiday job.

It had BBC BASIC and as it was Z80 based had an inbuilt assembly language compiler.

I recall doing this with lines of 16 byte hex numbers trying to be so careful to not miss any lines or get them in the wrong order.

Sometimes it would work great, but mainly not.

Factorio, bought it in 2017, completed it several times and now playing Space Age. The factory must grow!

Spelunky2. Such a fun game. Steam claims only 530 hours

Geometry Wars3. Steam claims 2782 hours. The best twin stick shooter. I've played so far.

The adage is correct. Cat doesn't fit, cat doesn't sit