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ZX80

1980 · United Kingdom · 1 KB

Sinclair’s first home machine: a white plastic case, a membrane keyboard and just one kilobyte of memory. It began the line that led to the Spectrum.

Sinclair ZX80 — a white wedge-shaped case with a sloped top, the “sinclair ZX80” logo and a blue membrane keyboard
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Specifications

Year
1980
Manufacturer
Sinclair Research
Country
United Kingdom
CPU
Zilog Z80 · 3.25 MHz
RAM
1 KB
ROM
4 KB
Video
64×48 · block graphics, monochrome
Sound
None
Storage
Cassette
Keyboard
Membrane
Mass
unknown

Gallery

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Sources

  1. Sinclair ZX80 — Centre for Computing History — computinghistory.org.uk
  2. ZX80 — Wikipedia — en.wikipedia.org