Sinclair ZX80
Sinclair Sinclair ZX80 1980
Basic information
- Category
- Computer
- Manufacturer
- Sinclair
- Platform
- Sinclair ZX80
- Release year
- 1980
About this item
The Sinclair ZX80 is an 8-bit home computer marketed by Sir Clive Sinclair’s Science of Cambridge (soon renamed Sinclair Research) as “the first personal computer for under one hundred pounds.” Released in January 1980, it ignited the UK micro-boom and sold about 100 000 units worldwide despite numerous limitations – most famously its blanking video that disappears while BASIC is running code. The ZX80 arrived in February 1980—just months before the BBC Micro project was even conceived—and became the first consumer microcomputer to retail for under £100 in the United Kingdom.<ref>Mail-order advert, Practical Computing, March 1980. Launch prices (1980): £79.95 in kit form, £99.95 fully assembled (plus £4 P&P).
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