zx-80

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zx-80 - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  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 L79.95 or ready-built for
     L99.95.  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)