I guess I buried the lead in my initial post.  I'm not a big Linux promoter and I understand it's issues.  My point was that Windows is about to radically change.  I am an information security professional and a Microsoft gold partner.  I am constantly monitoring where Microsoft is headed and while they haven't instituted a subscription for Windows yet they are certainly imposing more control over end-user devices.  That can be good or bad but some of us who understand the guts of our systems would prefer the traditional level of control.  We are slowly losing the ability to control many aspects of our devices.  Here's a link at Arstechnica about all this: 

 

I guess information security is different to PC security. If everybody was forced to run security updates there would be a huge reduction of viruses pushed out from the windows platform.

I understand the guts of my system but I have no idea about the guts of the code contained within a patch. I also understand that M$ does not releases critical patches unless they are critical.

Also as somebody confirmed on yet another Win10 thread, the updates are only compulsory on home edition, I didn't know this myself it's disturbing gold partners don't know either.

nedramage
I guess I buried the lead in my initial post.  I'm not a big Linux promoter and I understand it's issues.  My point was that Windows is about to radically change.  I am an information security professional and a Microsoft gold partner.  I am constantly monitoring where Microsoft is headed and while they haven't instituted a subscription for Windows yet they are certainly imposing more control over end-user devices.  That can be good or bad but some of us who understand the guts of our systems would prefer the traditional level of control.  We are slowly losing the ability to control many aspects of our devices.  Here's a link at Arstechnica about all this: 
 
 

 
I haven't seen anything in the W10 literature about less control of devices. What specifically are you referring to?

zx81 ram pack wobble was fixed some time ago.
 
http://bitcycle.org/retro/zx81/internal_RAM/
 
also was the composite signal  :) 
 
I use a zx-pand card , added sd card+memory+joystick port and a soundcard :)
 

I'm waiting for a port to the Palm Pilot.

charlyg
I'm waiting for a port to the Palm Pilot.

Will that come with a free upgrade to Blackberry?

You have to sign a 2 year contract.