The Zen channel was visited daily by 5,048 people in February. They brought in a little over a thousand rubles in revenue. Such traffic on the site would have given a two- or three-fold better financial result.
Two years later, in the winter of 1995, my dream came true
My parents bought a Delta-S 128 for 120 thousand rubles (it was a more modern model with 128 KB of memory). They connected it to an old Soviet tube TV through the antenna output on the computer. As a result, the picture was black and white. That’s how I buy bulk sms service the Spectrum. I’ve only seen games in color at my friends’. And when the Internet and a personal computer appeared, my eyes were opened.
, but it did not fit the new Rubin TV. It was necessary to re-solder it, but my parents were against it, since it was believed that using a TV as a monitor quickly drains the CRT. Yes, there were many myths back then.
There were no disk drives
All programs and games were loaded from a tape recorder. Unfortunately, “Belarus” did not the best part is that you don’t have to do this work sound very well, and for “Specki” – this is critical. It was necessary to constantly adjust the alignment head for better reading of programs from cassettes. Therefore, a year later we bought a tape recorder “Vesna”. It became much better.
Cassettes with programs and games were sold in two stores in my city of 100,000, plus we regularly exchanged lack data with friends. Games then took about 4-5 minutes to load. Each 60-minute cassette contained 8-10 games. In the late 90s, cassettes appeared on sale where programs were recorded in turbo mode, so a standard drive could hold twice as many.
Literature on the Spectrum (books and the ZX-Review magazine) had to be obtained in a neighboring city. Printed materials and games were sold by only one computer company. In a couple of years, I think I bought up everything that was there. All the literature was read to pieces and is still carefully stored.
In 1997, they bought me an additional board in the form of a 3.5-inch floppy disk drive with a built-in AY-3-8912 coprocessor. A bunch of new games and programs appeared. It became much easier to work with floppy disks.