In a message dated 07-15-15, Ed Vance said to Holger Granholm:   
      
   GM Ed,   
      
   EV> I was thinking it was a ZX80, so I looked at Widipedia and yes they   
   EV> have a page for the ZX80 and ZX81 PC's.   
      
   Hmm, PC is a short for Personal Computer, usually an IBM compatible!   
      
    HG> Well, you could do amazing things with the built-in 16kb RAM if   
    HG> you learned to program, and there was also a plug-in additional   
    HG> 16kb memory available.   
      
   EV> i also learned BASIC programming and wrote s few programs too.   
      
   Yes, Basic was available but it used too much of the limited memory   
   resources.   
      
   EV> After I joined a FIDO BBS I liked seeing what others would create   
   EV> and show in the QWK_BAS echo.   
      
   I looked through my first list of available echoes but there were none   
   for Basic.   
      
   EV> A lot of them didn't have to have any adjustment to let them run on   
   EV> the Commodore.   
      
   I lost all interest for Commodore computers after finding out that they   
   worked only with Commodore hardware. Other PC's could use any additional   
   hardware available.   
      
   EV> I remember Kurt Kuzba(sp?) wrote one saying "Basic Can't Do This",   
   EV> but IT Did!   
      
   Once you learned machine code and/or assembly coding everything was so   
   much easier.   
      
   CU L8ER,   
      
   Holger   
      
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