System 80/Video Genie/PMC-80 Reminiscences


From , Windsor, England (31st May, 2007)...

The VG was my second computer after the Sinclair ZX80. I built an expansion unit for disk drives and printer and attempted to get to grips with Assembler programming with some reasonable success. As I am a radio ham my efforts were in that direction and I managed a working system to decode RTTY.

Not long afterwards I bought a Dragon computer which did not use the Z80 CPU so I soon forgot what I had learned and I then got overtaken by technical advances and the availability of off-the-shelf systems.

The VG has now been taken out of storage and Peter is trying to get it working (ed.)