To browse the collection of software, click this link. This included the ZX80, said to be the UKs first mass-market home computer for under £100, the ZX81, and the trusty ZX Spectrum. Peter Morse, Ian Adamson, Ben Anrep and Brian Hancock. In addition ZX-81 had 30 additional functions and some instructions to drive the printer. The ZX-80 had 4k ROM compared to 8K in ZX-81. The ZX-80 could not handle floating point numbers or cassette files, but the ZX-81 could. A plethora of third-party accessories such as proper keyboards, RAM packs with increased reliability, and hard disk interfaces helped the ZX81 compete against it's technically superior, but more expensive competitors such as the Commodore VIC-20 and Texas Instruments TI 99-4/a.īrowsing the CollectionThere are over 1400 images in this Sinclair ZX81 collection, primarily games, along with applications, demos, and educational software. The British entrepreneur is perhaps best known for launching the ZX range of cheap microcomputers, which helped bring computing, games, and programming into UK homes in the 1980s, at least. The Complete Guide to Programming in Sinclair BASIC Using the ZX81 and Spectrum Microcomputers. The Sinclair ZX-81 is the successor of the ZX-80, and can be regarded as an evolution of it. Sold in both kit form and assembled, only two official perhiperhals for the ZX81 were released - a 16kB RAM pack, and the ZX Printer. Marketed to the mass public, the Sinclair ZX81 sought to bring computing to the general public and shed the sterotypes of computers being for only hardcore computer hobbyists. The much-loathed pressure-sensitive membrane keyboard was a result of the cost-cutting in the desing of the ZX81, later resolve with it's US successor the Timex Sinclair 1500. His company, Sinclair Radionics, is arguably best known around the world for 1982s ZX Spectrum, an early example of a computer capable of multi-color, real-time graphics.The device dominated the. Programs and data were loaded and saved from standard audio tape cassettes. ZINVADERS - Sinclair ZX81 + 16K RAM, on cassette 6.00 SUPER PROGRAMS 9 - 1K ZX81 TAPE 6.00 TUT-TUT Sinclair ZX81 + 16K RAM, on cassette 6.00 SHOOT EM UP DESIGNER Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K cassette 6.00 SNOWED UNDER TAPE Spectrum 9.99 ALL HALLOWS' EVE Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K cassette 6. In place of a dedicated monitor, the ZX81 was designed to output video to standard television set. Designed as a low-cost introduction to home computing, the ZX81 was designed to be small, simple, and cheap. Even with the price of the 16K RAM pack having been reduced from £49.95 to £29.95, the cost of the 16K ZX-81 is almost £100, only £25 less than the 16K Spectrum. The Sinclair ZX81 was released 1981 in the UK and later in 1982 in a slightly modified form as the Timex Sinclair 1000 in the United States. Unix: z81-0.2.tar. Although Sinclair has said that the Spectrum is an extension to its range of computers, it will make many people think twice before buying the ZX-81.
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