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| ZX
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The one that started
it, ready built or in kit form. |
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| ZX
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1KB expandable to 16K
- Wow!! This was many people's introduction
to computers. |
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| 16K
Spectrum |
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Colour and sound in an
easy to use machine . . . |
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| Spectrum
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A new keyboard and a
more professional look. |
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| Software |
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Cassette tapes for ZX81
and Spectrum, discs for the Spectrum +3. |
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Getting more from your
Sinclair computer. |
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Power supplies - ZX80
to Plus 3. |
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| Programs |
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A selection of my programs
to download or type in. |
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Links to Sinclair related
sites. |
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| The Sinclair Museum. |
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range is the story of the early days of home computing
in the UK. Clive Sinclair was a British entrepreneur
who had produced radios, calculators and watches.
Always innovative, his ideas caught the attention
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Sinclair stable was the MK14 board for hobbyists
in 1978 and the last was the PC200 in 1988 although
neither of these was a truly Sinclair product. In
between there was an exciting eight years which
saw home computing transformed from an interest
for the few to something few could imagine living
without. The brand wasn't just popular in the UK
either. In North America, Sinclair computers and
derivatives were produced by Timex and in communist
eastern Europe the Spectrum was copied by several
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| The MK14, produced by Science
of Cambridge, was a board holding a machine code
monitor in ROM, 256 bytes of RAM, a calculator style
keyboard and display, and I/O ports. Although we
would not recognise it as a computer in the modern
sense, without it there might never have been a
UK computer industry. It not only led an initially
unenthusiastic Clive Sinclair to the Sinclair ZX
range but the MK14 was developed by Chris Curry
who left the company to form Acorn Computers of
BBC fame. |
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| From the very basic ZX80 through
the millions of Spectrums to the failure of the
QL, the Sinclair range found its way into the homes
and hearts of the nation. Many are still there.
The ones here found their way into mine . . . .
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