Sinclair ZX81 Sending SMS Text Messages

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Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• retro
• mobile
• phone
• sms
• text
• sinclair
• zx81
• twitter
• geek

[Infausto69]

Dovrò ricomprare uno ZX81, mi è indispensabile per spedire i miei SMS !!

Sicuramente il progettista di questa macchina mai avrebbe pensato a questo utilizzo! Lunga vita allo ZX81 , il mio primo computer!

[wdsglobalgroup]

@Infausto69 ZX81 era il mio primo calcolatore anche. Sono felice voi lo ho gradetto!

[gamewizard]

@sandovezmctare

Firstly, learn to spell. It's Reagan. Secondly, Shut the fuck up. 

[gamewizard]

Completely useless. If you need another computer to process the message and send it, why not just send the message from that computer in the first place?

[bukster1]

I've still got my ZX81. Last time I turned it on it still worked. As this shows, ZX81s can do anything.

[sandovezmctare]

kinda an insult to show Regan in a picture in a video related to the ZX81, I think it might've actually been smarter than he was.

[wisteela]

Awesome! And love your style.

[rob1969in]

brilliant

[doubledragonuk]

Cool

[theapeman10]

@c3dr1cb - yeah I thought the same but I missed the save command in the program list when I first watched the video - as the laptop is converting this sound output from the zx81 save's command. So yeah the Save command save the program and the program's variables normally on tape. but the audio out is going into the laptop and that is reconstructing a program listing - it's only interested in parsing the input variables and using that as the SMS TEXT.

[dfarmbrough]

Excellent fun! And I like the slightly sarcastic, can't pronounce his "r"s, 1980s-style nerd voiceover. Just the sort of person who would have had a ZX81...or had a Nascom 2 and looked down his nose at Sinclair owners!

[Svettjodd]

@c3dr1cb It's no joke, see comment by wdsglobalgroup below!

(The shallow tone of the narrator of the clip makes it sound like a joke though ;)