Zx80

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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  ZX-80
       
           {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 (pounds)79.95 or ready-built for
          (pounds)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://www.nvg.ntnu.no/sinclair/)}.
       
          {The Sinclair Story
          (http://www.sincuser.f9.co.uk/046/sstory.htm)}.
       
          (2002-08-30)