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Happy 30th Birthday, ZX81

The Sinclair ZX81 home computer is 30 today. It and its variants such as the... Read more

5 March, 2011

ZX81 games developer finally closes down

...but some of its co-founders had written games for the Sinclair ZX81. Obviously, it moved on. Over the years, it wrote or ported games... Read more

16 February, 2011
The Monday Twitter Photo Challenge

The Monday Twitter Photo Challenge

...question.1. What is it? 2. What is the connection with the ZX81?3. Where else could you find the handles on the unit's... Read more

26 July, 2010 by ZDNet UK

The ZX Spectrum: Birthday memories

...were various codenames for the ZX Spectrum and related projects such as ZX81 Colour, LC3 (Low Cost Colour Computer), ZX82 and so on, the move... Read more

23 April, 2012

iPad 3's power behind the throne

Apple didn't call out the new iPad's most striking internal feature during the launch, but from an engineering viewpoint... Read more

20 March, 2012
Steve Jobs and the limits of genius

Steve Jobs and the limits of genius

...machine begged to be used, to be experimented with. I got a ZX81 as soon as I could afford one, and sank gratefully into the... Read more

6 October, 2011 by Rupert Goodwins
A tour of the UK's Vintage Computer Festival

A tour of the UK's Vintage Computer Festival

...2,000 visitors and 32 exhibitors generated. One exhibit featured the Sinclair ZX81. Seen here to the right of its whiter ancestor, the ZX80, the... Read more

22 June, 2010 by Rupert Goodwins
zxsp 0.7.4.pre1

zxsp 0.7.4.pre1

...files or vice versa. zxsp supports the black&white models ZX80 and ZX81 and the Jupiter Ace, the ZX Spectrum models with 16K and 48K... Read more

29 April, 2012
Rock Crush 3.0

Rock Crush 3.0

...Other buttons kill Dan.There are 3 graphical modes to try:Original ZX81 graphics - a pixel perfect rendition of the original "High Res ZX81 Game... Read more

31 March, 2012
Vintage Computing 1.0

Vintage Computing 1.0

...the Atari 400, Commodore PET 2001, Atari 800XL, RadioShack TRS-80, VIC20, ZX81 Spectrum and many more.Featuring thirteen old school computer image puzzles and... Read more

5 February, 2011
Mazugs 1.3.0

Mazugs 1.3.0

...1983, and published by DK'Tronics. Maziacs was based on his earlier ZX81 game Mazogs which was published by Bug Byte in 1982 Read more

25 August, 2010

Sinclair ZX81 computers back on sale

An obsolete British home computer, the Timex/Sinclair ZX81, has made an unexpected and daring reappearance onto the personal computing scene... Read more

6 October, 2000 by Will Knight

Rupert Goodwins' Diary

...absolutely packed with people not buying things. In the corner was a ZX81: the rest of the place was packed by its acolytes. Coo, I... Read more

16 January, 1999 by Rupert Goodwins

Photos: A dip into Bletchley's classic PC archive

...Spectrum With its distinctive rubber keyboard, the 1982 follow up to the ZX81 was the colour ZX Spectrum - one of the first mainstream, mass-market... Read more

3 September, 2008 by Andy McCue

Twenty quid well spent

...I knew that when I bought a 32KB expansion kit for my ZX81 from Audio Computers of Southend (which never actually worked), and I've... Read more

3 August, 2009

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apexwm

JW, Thanks as always for the great review on these new releases. One thing that I've also read is that Fedora 17 will include GIMP 2.8 which is...

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Why is it that Newzealand has the guts to stand up to the USA and ask to see the evidence and we don't!

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BrownieBoy

"cites" even. Ouch!

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Horace Ontalhold

...... and PDP11s too

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apexwm

Jack : I was hoping you could provide us a summary since you are familiar with this report. I am not yet sure how much of my time I'd like to...

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@apexwm Have you considered either (a) reading the story above or (b) reading the PDF? There are answers in both.

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