Way before iPads, Newtons and Palm Pilots, Clive Sinclair released the Z88, the only release from his post-Sinclair Research company Cambridge Computers. It was simple, brilliant, but flawed. It wouldn't have taken much to make it perfect. As it stood, it was a productivity king. Let's have a look at it.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:32 History
05:58 Overview
08:00 Teardown
10:00 Power Up & Test
11:48 Wrap Up
Timeline of Sinclair’s Companies
Sinclair Radionics Reg. 1961
- MAT 100 (Micro Alloy Transistors)
- MAT 120
- MAT 101
- MAT 121
Science Of Cambridge Reg. 1973
- MK14 (1978)
- ZX80 (1980)
Sinclair Researc Reg. 1981
- ZX81 (1981)
- ZX Spectrum 16k (1982)
- ZX Spectrum 48k (1982)
- ZX Spectrum+ (1984)
- Sinclair QL (1984)
- ZX Spectrum 128k (1985)
Sinclair Vehicles Reg. 1983
- Sinclair C5 - (1985)
April 1986 - Sinclair sold to Amstrad for £5m
Clive Sinclair retained:
Anamartic Ltd.
- Wafer Scale Integration
- CT2 Mobile Telephony
Cambridge Computers
- Z88 (1987)
References
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Z88
https://www.flickr.com/photos/9574086@N02/sets/72157600856913881/
https://worldofspectrum.org/z88forever/index.html
https://oldcomputers.net/cambridge-z88.html
https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/6006/cambridge-z88-production-run
https://www.theregister.com/2014/02/19/archaeologic_sinclair_research_might_have_beens/?page=3
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epson_HX-20
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_Sinclair
https://www.crashonline.org.uk/28/news.htm
https://cambridgez88.jira.com/wiki/spaces/welcome/overview?mode=global
Attributions
By Source, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=28433463
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Sinclair_C5
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