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excerpt: "Brook Mick's letter (Oct. 81) recalls our early experience with our ZX80. We tried the exercise in the manual, p.24. In the 15th line, every character typed made another disappear from the screen! The answer appeared in an article by David Tebbit, reprinted in Sync."
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# Notes on the ZX80 Display File

Brook Mick’s letter (Oct. 81) recalls our early experience with our ZX80. We tried the exercise in the manual, p.24. In the 15th line, every character typed made another disappear from the screen! The answer appeared in an article by David Tebbit, reprinted in Sync.