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- From: Tony Harminc <EL406045@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Gleanings (73
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- Posted on 21 Dec 1992 at 09:47:43 by Akio Tanaka
-
- > 3) ZX81 (Tony H.)
-
- The ZX81 is a tiny computer made by Sinclair Research in England. It
- was quite popular around 1980. An essentially identical model was
- sold in the US as the Timex-Sinclair 1000.
-
- The ZX81 plugs into a TV set, has built in BASIC, one (1) kb of
- memory, no disk (floppy or hard), and a little membrane keyboard
- on which a top speed of about ten words/minute is possible after
- a lot of practice.
-
- The ZX81 was the brainchild of Clive (now Sir Clive) Sinclair who,
- as well as being the unwitting foundation for the <Sinclair> references
- imagined by GGS, was the inventor of various 1960s and 70s electronic
- gadgets (early digital watch, calculators, electronic measuring
- instruments, etc.) and a couple of follow on computers,
- none of which came close to the success of the ZX81. An electric
- car project (which turned into an electric tricycle) was a dismal
- flop in the 1980s.
-
- Clive was also active for many years in Mensa (the high IQ society)
- and was for a time chairman of British Mensa.
-
- Tony H.
-