- Released 5 March 1981
- £49.95 kit form, £69.95 ready assembled
- Sold more than 1.5 million in its three-year run
- Manufactured by Timex in Scotland
- Sinclair BASIC operating system
- 9v DC Power Supply
- Z80 CPU running at 3.25Mhz
- 1k RAM (64k max, of which only 56k was useable)
- Monochrome output on VHF television
- 64 x 44 pixels graphics mode
- Weighed 350 grams
- Abysmal touch-sensitive keyboard (although it was an improvement on that of the ZX80)
You’ll all probably remember Saturday mornings in early 1981, running down to WHSmith to have a go on the new computers that had just arrived, and doing this:
And then we’d all giggle with glee as the word BUM scrolled across and down the screen. Remember kids, that semicolon at line 10 was VITAL.
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