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After all, when you were the one that personally attached the keyboard connector you feel no trepidation in taking it out. That's why I replaced with with a spare TI-994A keyboard (real keys). You didn't like the chiclet keyboard? Neither did I. The cool thing about the ZX-81 in particular (kit version) was how when you built something from scratch you really felt not a care at all about modification to it. It depends what slant you want to put on it! But then, the Amiga and ST's 68000 was generally considered a 16-bit processor (not 32-bit) due to the size of its data bus, so following the same system the QL would only be an 8-bit machine. (*) Sinclair sold the QL on the basis that it was a 32-bit machine, which the 68008 *was*. (Remember that the original NES was never as big a deal here as it was in the US at the time- it was even outsold by the Sega Master System in the UK).
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It wasn't until circa '92-93 that the ever-falling price of PC clones and the Mega Drive (AKA Genesis) and later SNES took over and *really* started to dominate the home market. The late-80s and early-90s successors to the Spectrum were really the Atari ST and Amiga, the latter of which may have flopped in the US, but was massively popular in Europe around the turn of the decade.
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In some senses, the real successors to the Speccy were consoles and the PC, depending on how much money you had and whether you were just playing games or were determined to write software as well. users led to support and software which led to more users, which led to more support.) and it survived until the early 90s. (I think they stopped making the ZX81 in 1984?) In the long term the Spectrum was the most successful as it was usable for games- its success quickly spawned rivals, but its early lead had already established a network effect (i.e. It was sold alongside the cheaper ZX81 for some time. The Spectrum was a slightly more expensive machine with colour and high-resolution graphics and (very crude) single-channel sound. In fact, the ZX80 could be almost upgraded to a ZX81- minus the steady graphics- simply by replacing the ROM OS. The ZX81 replaced the ZX80 as it was essentially a refined and improved version of the latter (better OS and moving graphics possible- the ZX80's display flickered and went blank whenever it was busy) and at a lower price (18 chips in the ZX80 replaced with a single functionally equivalent chip). This made them easier to rip off than (e.g.) the Commodore 64. the ZX80's inability to compute and display at the same time was because the display was primarily generated in software). In part because their architecture was based around clever design using cheap off-the-shelf parts (e.g. There were very many clones and variants- both authorised and unauthorised- of the above machines in various countries. There was a US machine based on the Spectrum design (the failed Timex Sinclair 2068) but unlike the TS1000, it made significant changes and improvements to the original design. Colour, high-res graphics, sound (albeit crude single channel). The Timex Sinclair 1000 mentioned above was an NTSC version with 2KB and other minor differences for the US market, but to all intents and purposes the same machine. Still black and white with 1KB RAM (expandable to 16KB) and a new improved 8KB OS and BASIC ROM. Essentially an improved and cost-reduced refinement of the ZX80 design. * ZX81 came next and was even more popular. (I don't know if the pre-assembled version was ever sold in its native UK?) Apparently it was also sold in the US in both kit and assembled form. Yes, it was very basic, but it was also very cheap- first computer under £100 back when even the Apple II cost many, many times that. Black and white, text-based display, 1KB RAM, 4KB OS ROM with integer-only BASIC. There were three distinct "original" ZX machines sold on the UK market:.
The ZX-81 came before, I ordered mine from England. Was the ZX-81 the same as the TS-1000, or was it the same as the one that came after?