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[andrewducker]

• Siggis ZX81 web server main page
  I find it hard to believe they got a web server running on a ZX81...
  (tags: retro technology web)

Comments

[autopope.livejournal.com]

Remember the ZX81 had a Z80 with up to 64Kb of RAM?

Looking at the filesystem I figure there's probably a ZX81 buried in there somewhere, but he seems to have added rather a lot of extra hardware, not to mention his own operating system. So: what you're looking at isn't a classic ZX81 so much as a Z80-based custom rig with storage on MMC -- fuck knows how -- and its own IP stack (possibly missing out lots of stuff; I wouldn't be surprised if it's basically SLIP over RS-232 and handling TCP traffic on port 80 only, with a real PC in the loop somewhere to act as a router).

[davidcook.livejournal.com]

And have you andrewducker-dotted it yet ? :-)

[nmg.livejournal.com]

Yeah, and if you believe that I've got a potato-powered web server that I'm willing to sell.

(we put a scary amount of effort into making that look plausible, including generating suitable uptimes and throttling the server to make it look like it was running on something very slow)