Zx-80
zx-80
computer
Sinclair’s cheap personal computer with built-in BASIC, launched at the end of January 1980 at a computer fair in Wembley, UK. The processor was an NEC 780-C running at 3.25 MHz. It had 1KB of RAM, externally expandable to 16KB, and 4KB of ROM. It had RF video output to a TV, displaying 24 lines by 32 characters of monochrome text. An audio cassette recorder was used to save programs.
The ZX-80 was sold in kit form for £79.95 or ready-built for £99.95. It was used by many UK hobbyists as a means of learning the basics of computing. Some remember the 1KB ZX-80 for the claim in its advertising that you could control a nuclear power station with it.
The ZX-80 was succeeded by the ZX-81.
(http://home.t-online.de/home/p.liebert/zx80_eng.htm).
Planet Sinclair (http://nvg.ntnu.no/sinclair/).
The Sinclair Story (http://sincuser.f9.co.uk/046/sstory.htm).
(2002-08-30)
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