According to the official twitter page of this site a hard drive crashed and they lost a day's worth of posts.
I was joking. I know what, apparently, happened. Of course thoughts of the paycoin army attacking did cross my mind.
Hacking with their Vic-20's? Yeah, I don't think so.
Actually i think there using Timex Sinclair's. lol
Ahhh, memories. My first rig was actually a zx81, the precursor to the zx-80. You actually had to assemble it even. Bought it out of the ads in Popular Electronics, or maybe Radio Electronics or Practical Electronics. I read or subscribed to all of those back then.
Then I moved up to a Vic 20 when those came out- what a powerhouse! And COLOR even! Pretty sure I paid more for that Vic 20 setup (with the fancy tape recorder and extra memory, IO adapter, etc) than I have in my current rig.
Once upon a lifetime I worked for Sinclair Research Ltd. in Milton, Cambridge. Best part was the C5 project and sending Clive off in a "turbo version".
DEC VAX mainframe that was revered and the waferscale lab that was strictly off limits to anyone not working on it.
Happy days