POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : POV performance : Re: POV performance Server Time
8 Aug 2024 01:23:50 EDT (-0400)
  Re: POV performance  
From: Ron Parker
Date: 10 Jul 2001 10:40:05
Message: <slrn9km4u6.ds6.ron.parker@fwi.com>
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 15:29:33 +0100, Scott Hill wrote:
>"Mr. Art" <mra### [at] chesapeakenet> wrote in message
>news:3B4B34B2.CA084ED5@chesapeake.net...
>> Cool! You are the first Spectrum owner that I have heard of.
>
>    Most of us just don't talk about it much....
>
>(First computer owned (well it was the 'family computer' but no one else
>used it ) : Spectrum +3)

My first computer was a Timex/Sinclair 1000.  If memory serves, it was 
essentially the same hardware as the Sinclair ZX-81, but with 2K of RAM
instead of 1K.  I have a ZX-81 in a box in the garage, too.  I even have 
the flaky 16K RAM expansion and (I think) the thermal printer.

-- 
#macro R(L P)sphere{L F}cylinder{L P F}#end#macro P(V)merge{R(z+a z)R(-z a-z)R(a
-z-z-z a+z)torus{1F clipped_by{plane{a 0}}}translate V}#end#macro Z(a F T)merge{
P(z+a)P(z-a)R(-z-z-x a)pigment{rgbt 1}hollow interior{media{emission T}}finish{
reflection.1}}#end Z(-x-x.2y)Z(-x-x.4x)camera{location z*-10rotate x*90}


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