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Timex later produced its own versions of the ZX81: the Timex Sinclair 1000 and Timex Sinclair 1500. Unauthorized ZX81 clones were produced in several countries. The ZX81 was designed to be small, simple, and above all, inexpensive, with as few components as possible. Video output is to a television set rather than a dedicated monitor.
In recent years retrocomputing enthusiasts created various clones or recreations of the ZX80/ZX81. ZX81+38 [48] ZX80/ZX81 Double Clone [49] and related ZX80/ZX81 Project [50] ZX97 [51] Minstrel [52] Wilco/Baffa's one [53] TELLAB TL801, an Italian clone designed in 2002 that can emulate both the ZX80 or ZX81. Selection between machines is made ...
To mark the paper, one of the printer's two styluses passed a current through a small area of the aluminium layer, causing the aluminium to evaporate and reveal the black under-surface. The printer's horizontal resolution was the same as the ZX81's video display, i.e. 256 dots (pixels) or 32 characters (using the standard character definition).
Tasword is a word processor for microcomputers developed by Tasman Software. [1] The first version was released for the ZX81 in 1982 and spawned two major revisions in addition to several add-ons and, later, tailored versions for the +2 and +3 Spectrum models, the SAM Coupé, [2] the MSX, [3] the Timex Sinclair 2068 [4] and the Amstrad CPC [5] range.
Both versions of Flight Simulation became the best selling program for their respective machines with the ZX81 version reaching number 1 in February 1983 [14] and the Spectrum version reaching the top of the Spectrum charts in May. [15] Both versions were still in their machine's top ten chart over a year later. [16]
In 1983 "Buyers Guide Home Computing Weekly" was advertising the ZX81 for £39.95, and the Jupiter Ace for £89.95. [6] The company went bankrupt in November 1983. [7] In 1986 Altwasser became the engineering director at Amstrad. The same year Amstrad, already itself a successful home computer manufacturer, bought Sinclair Research's computer ...
The ZX81 personal computer. Rick Dickinson (c. 1957 – 24 April 2018) was a British industrial designer who developed pioneering computer designs in the 1980s. [1] Notable examples of his design work include the ZX81 case and touch-sensitive keyboard and the ZX Spectrum's rubber keyboard.
His first experience with a computer was when he was 13, his first computer was a Sinclair ZX81 he bought in 1981. [1] His first game, Namtir Raiders for the ZX81, gained its name from his surname reversed. He first drew attention with his games Bear Bovver and Match Day for the ZX Spectrum.