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It's a ZX81
Q: What the hell's a ZX81?
A: Good question. The ZX81 is a small home computer that was quite popular in the early eighties. It was built by Sinclair Research (who also made the Mk14 kit, ZX Spectrum, ZX80 and QL computers.)
It was a highly revolutionary design, containing only four integrated circuits. Most machines at the time needed twenty or so. This allowed the machine to be produced very cheaply, making it the first computer in the UK available for less than a hundred pounds.
The ZX81 was released in North America as the Timex-Sinclair 1000, and marketed by Timex. A TS-1500 was a TS-1000 with 16K of RAM built in.
Over a million ZX81's and TS-1000s were sold worldwide.
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Check out dvd jon's blog
http://www.nanocrew.net/blog/
for the pic of him as a kid. It's weird that I was posting to a thread about online music with dvdJon's blog link right after I read this thread and happened to scroll down and see the pic.
http://www.nanocrew.net/blog/
for the pic of him as a kid. It's weird that I was posting to a thread about online music with dvdJon's blog link right after I read this thread and happened to scroll down and see the pic.
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Truly I think crashing computers is really a thing of the past. We had tons of power packed into machines, and they couldn't handle it. Thus all the crashes for a few years there. My original computers had 10 or so crashes a day. I've had four computers all for about a year, and I have not had a single crash on any of them, ever.