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)