#SINCLAIR ZX SPECTRUM 16K PORTABLE#

#SINCLAIR ZX SPECTRUM 16K PORTABLE#

Video output is through an RF modulator and was designed for use with contemporary portable television sets, for a simple colour graphic display. Hardware design was by Richard Altwasser of Sinclair Research, and the machine's outward appearance was designed by Sinclair's industrial designer Rick Dickinson. The original model Spectrum has 16 KB (16Г—1024 bytes) of ROM and either 16 KB or 48 KB of RAM. The Spectrum is based on a Zilog Z80A CPU running at 3.5 MHz (or NEC D780C-1 clone). Licensing deals and clones followed, and earned Clive Sinclair a knighthood for 'services to British industry'. The introduction of the ZX Spectrum led to a boom in companies producing software and hardware for the machine, cite web | url = | work = Planet Sinclair | last = Owen | first = Chris | accessdate = | title = ZX Spectrum 16K/48K ] the effects of which are still seen cite web | url= | title=How the Spectrum began a revolution | accessdate= | date= | publisher= BBC] some credit it as the machine which launched the UK IT industry. The ZX Spectrum was released in eight different models, ranging from the 16K entry level model with 16 KB RAM released in 1982 to the ZX Spectrum +3 with 128 KB RAM and built in floppy disk drive in 1987. The BBC Microcomputer and later the Amstrad CPC-range were other major competitors. The Spectrum was among the first mainstream audience home computers in the UK, similar in significance to the Commodore 64 in the USA the C64 was a major rival to the Spectrum in the UK market during the early 1980s. Referred to during development as the 'ZX81 Colour' and 'ZX82', the machine was launched as the 'ZX Spectrum' by Sinclair to highlight the machine's colour display, compared with the black-and-white of its predecessor, the Sinclair ZX81.

The Sinclair ZX Spectrum is an 8-bit personal home computer released in the United Kingdom in 1982 by Sinclair Research Ltd.

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