Optron #23 19 января 1999

История

Lit. Page - Shadows of the past.

           Shadows of the past ...

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  So my conscience is finally awakened
from a deep slumber ... And then how you can:
Leading "Litstranichki" in her preface
sling ink, but instead of its own imperishable
artistic creations - technological Wikipedia rivet started!

  It is of course, coding - a good thing. A
If it has, in addition to shemku
Kempston-mouse, Sinclair-rat, or there
QAOPM-suslik, or even will be no life, and
raspberries!

  But not only those alive (yet) people. So let's try to look 
into history, especially since this story is - my

own, about how I got Sinclair'om. Those who believe that my
modest person "does not pull on the promulgation of this, I 
refer to the ZX-News | 44. 


  This story happened a long time. In
While I was at the II course in the popularly known Lviv 
Elektrotehnikume Communications (LETS). It so happened that, at 
the I came upon a certain amount ... A report for it to no one 
wanted. You understand that extraordinary event.


  This case should have been noted as I
engaged in one sunny autumn day ...

  When he woke, it was already dark. Shel
rain and a drunk neighbor ... In such a situation
each stroke of the philosophical thoughts ... AND
Now, under the influence is not completely weathered 
Rasputin'a, it occurred to me: 

  "And do not make me a computer?"

  No sooner said than done, so I immediately
went to sleep on.

  The next morning, burst into the home
LETS with a newspaper, a crowded diverse ads, I began to study 
the range of ... And learned that a well-wisher sells Sinclair 
ZX-Spectrum 48K. I clipped the note, the remnants of paper 
tossed in the space around and went home to call the above 
number ... 

  Knowing exactly when I needed a person will
home, I sense of duty hung up.

  Waiting seems endless. Finally,
specified time has arrived, and I rushed to the phone. Meeting 
with the seller was appointed the next day ...


  Quoting yourself in fighting spirit, I
went to meet his fate ...

  Case, recall was in the fall. The city
dumped darkness. This is yet more to add excitement to my 
campaign. Soon I "taxied" in the required stairway, turned out 
to be - To our best traditions - absolutely

unlit.

  I think each of our man at least once
had to look in the dark in a strange doorway right apartment, 
so there is no need bring all 1,024 gigabytes of obscene

thoughts to the one which .....!, Remove the light bulb. 
Finally, half asleep box of matches, I get to your door

and vented all his anger on innocent innocent doorbells. Not 
surprisingly, the the door opened quickly enough ...


  Aborigine, who opened the door, turned out to be a woman 
nopredelennogo age. And the fate of was equally nondescript type

age group (but obviously older than ten and under thirty) who 
said that I indeed in the right place and now will have untold 
fortune to buy the best computer of all time peoples. Whereupon 
opened cabinet - and the coveted appeared before my admiration 
gaze. 

  It is time to test. Within three
hours, we tried to load a tape
a variety of programs, some
of them managed to even be in the RAM without
"Raduyuschego soul" message "Tape loading
error ".

  In the end I felt it was time to call it a day, while in the 
aforementioned RAM there was also my roof, pre-move out. With 
this in mind I packed now have a Speccy in your bag, handed 
benefactor-seller his 30 pieces of silver, and tumbled into the 
dark staircase ... 

  Home I was pleased by the news,
that the light had just turned off. So
connecting my new ZX to the old TV
had to leave for better times.

  And the hour has come! And with him - and new challenges. I 
do not know why, but I felt that connect your computer to your 
TV in general is not difficult to connect meter antenna ... 
Cruel delusion! On the first day connection failed. My

Elektron-716 "was just an unusually neprisposoblen for such 
chilling experience ... 

  On the fourth day one "expert" told
I like "podsobachit" ZX to the TV using
just a few resistors and capacitors. I immediately sat down to 
implement this ideas, but the maximum that could get on-screen 
text was crooked, hardly differ only in mode 1 and BRIGHT 
INVERSE 1. 

  In such circumstances, neither of which
branded games and speeches could not be. However, very much 
like to "torment" new toy, so we had to sit down and BASIC. 

  During training, I wrote different things
- Psevdoigrushki with emphasis on logic - because as a dynamic 
game in Basic, as you probably know, is very reminiscent

dystrophic to show Gladiator. In view of this
I made some attempts to develop and ASSEMBLER'a, which was used
Package MONGEN-4B. However, affected what
that the input tape worked for me
only occasionally, as well as a lack of data. As a textbook, I
had only one book, and İnönü -
"Assembler" under the editorship of a U. TAHT,
published by WA Print ". I can recommend to all: the rare stuff!

  Yet, somehow, but it went. Together
the case went and studied at the LETS, or rather, already
ended IV course. It was necessary to identify and select: 
diploma or state examination? I tilt toward the latter (it is 
clear that easier to write off!), but unexpectedly found

that in one of our laboratories appeared
the same "komputer", like me, just
with the drive. Immediately, it was decided to go
go for a diploma.

  The very theme of the thesis (tested
program) no problems were:
shortly before that I was lucky
get the book "How to write a game in assembly language, and as 
a result of its reading of I had a Napoleonic plan to do

assembly language all their diploma.

  In terms of coding, it was good
practice. Especially, it turns all
much more beautiful than in BASIC. Diploma supervisor liked it 
and I was given complete creative freedom. The comments made by 
only one teacher. According to him, it turns out that

if the entire program is implemented in assembler, a 
particularly stupid teachers can not do anything it changed. 
But criticism does not scare me! The diploma has been made, and 
protection was held at the "Excellent."


  And then there was the distribution of work and
banquet. Assigned me - g.Hotin Chernivtsi region - a rare hole. 
Here and ended the first part of my

computer life ...

  Of course, then I came back, zaimel
Spectrum 128, and then - and the steeper
TURBO 2 +, and joined the Iron Falcons. But this -
is another story.