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    The Sinclair ZX80 is a home computer launched on 29 January 1980 by Science of Cambridge Ltd. (later to be better known as Sinclair Research). It is notable...
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  • The following is a list of clones of Sinclair Research's ZX80 and ZX81 home computers: MicroAce (1980, US) Microdigital TK80 (1981, Brazil) Nova Electrônica/Prológica...
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    The ZX80 character set is the character encoding used by the Sinclair Research ZX80 microcomputer with its original 4K BASIC ROM. The encoding uses one...
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    Executive) in 1972. Sinclair then moved into the production of home computers in 1980 with Sinclair Research Ltd, producing the Sinclair ZX80 (the UK's first...
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    ZX81 (redirect from Sinclair ZX-81)
    was launched in the United Kingdom in March 1981 as the successor to Sinclair's ZX80 and designed to be a low-cost introduction to home computing for the...
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  • Sinclair was slow to include the new version in the ROMs. The new ROMs were eventually offered to owners of the earlier ZX80 as well. When Sinclair lost...
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  • computer as the ZX80 in February 1980, as both a kit and ready-built. In November 1979, Science of Cambridge Ltd was renamed Sinclair Computers Ltd. In...
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    character set. The Sinclair ZX80, ZX81, and ZX Spectrum included a set of text semigraphics with quadrant-based block elements. The ZX80 and ZX81 also included...
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    some home computers also came as commercial electronic kits, like the Sinclair ZX80, which were both home and home-built computers since the purchaser could...
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  • minicomputer Mera 400. Also in development hardware emulator in FPGA. For Sinclair ZX Spectrum and clones Comparison of platform virtualization software List...
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    equivalents as had happened to several of the previous Sinclair Radionics products. On 29 January 1980, the ZX80 home computer was launched to immediate popularity;...
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    The BBC Ceefax system which dated from 1976 encoded the £ as x23. The Sinclair ZX80 and ZX81 characters sets used x0C (ASCII: form feed). The ZX Spectrum...
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  • Other computers would have as low as 1 KB (plus 4 KB ROM), such as the Sinclair ZX80 (while the later very popular ZX Spectrum had more memory), or even...
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    expansions include: Jupiter Ace RAM Pack Sinclair ZX80 RAM pack units (available in 1–3 KB and later 16 KB) Sinclair ZX81 16KB RAM unit, commonly referred...
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  • MicroAce (category Sinclair ZX80 clones)
    The MicroAce was a 1980 Sinclair ZX80 home computer clone, designed and manufactured by CompShop and distributed in the USA by MicroAce of Santa Ana,...
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    today, the Z80 was discontinued in 2024. The Z80 CPU was used in the Sinclair ZX80, ZX81, ZX Spectrum and the Amstrad CPC home computers as well as the...
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  • NE-Z80 (category Sinclair ZX80 clones)
    publication that was part of the Brazilian Prológica group. It was the first Sinclair ZX80 clone available in Brazil. With an introduction price of Cr$ 59,900...
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  • Tune) in March 2000. The album cover features a 1980 home computer, the Sinclair ZX80. "Rewind Intro" "Communication Break-Down" "Deadly Media" "Ninja Tune"...
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    MK14, Sinclair Research (then trading as Science of Cambridge) entered the home computer market in 1980 with the ZX80 at £99.95. At the time the ZX80 was...
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    Microsoft BASIC. Sinclair BASIC was introduced in 1980 with the Sinclair ZX80, and was later extended for the Sinclair ZX81 and the Sinclair ZX Spectrum....
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  • (23 January 2016). "CroZXy Road - New 16K ZX81 game - Sinclair ZX80 / ZX81 / Z88 Forums". Sinclair ZX World. Archived from the original on 3 July 2023....
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  • the Sinclair ZX80 and Sinclair ZX81 computers. It closed in 1986 after producing thirty-nine issues of its magazine AZUA and the Australian Sinclair Gazette...
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    its first product was the TK80, a clone of the British microcomputer Sinclair ZX80. The company reached its height around 1985, with the launching of the...
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    that use entirely different keys. This cursor key layout was seen in Sinclair ZX80, ZX81, and ZX Spectrum home computer designs. These machines had 40-key...
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  • (EDSAC) had a maximum working memory of 1024 17-bit words, while the 1980 Sinclair ZX80 came initially with 1024 8-bit bytes of working memory. In the late...
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    The Timex Sinclair 1000 (or T/S 1000) was the first computer produced by Timex Sinclair, a joint venture between Timex Corporation and Sinclair Research...
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    2007-08-06 Wearmouth, Geoff. "An Assembly Listing of the ROM of the Sinclair ZX80". Archived from the original on August 15, 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint:...
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    images from games stored on magnetic tapes (from, for example, the Sinclair ZX80 computer) generally involves simply playing the magnetic tape using...
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    early 1980s. This second batch included the VIC-20 and Commodore 64; Sinclair ZX80, ZX81 and ZX Spectrum; NEC PC-8000, PC-6001, PC-88 and PC-98; Sharp...
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  • the Tandy TRS-80. This was a text only game. It was converted to the Sinclair ZX80 and ZX81, and Toms created the software label Addictive Games to launch...
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