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    The Sinclair ZX80 is a home computer launched on 29 January 1980 by Science of Cambridge Ltd. (later to be better known as Sinclair Research). It is notable...
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  • The following is a list of clones of Sinclair Research's ZX80 and ZX81 home computers: MicroAce (1980, US) Microdigital TK80 (1981, Brazil) Nova Electrônica/Prológica...
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    launched in the United Kingdom in March 1981 as the successor to Sinclair's ZX80 and designed to be a low-cost introduction to home computing for the general...
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    home computers in 1980 with Sinclair Research Ltd, producing the Sinclair ZX80 (the UK's first mass-market home computer for less than £100) and in the...
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    The ZX80 character set is the character encoding used by the Sinclair Research ZX80 microcomputer with its original 4K BASIC ROM. The encoding uses one...
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  • 1981. In 1980, Clive Sinclair entered the home computer market with the ZX80 at £99.95, at that time the cheapest personal computer for sale in the United...
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    character set. The Sinclair ZX80, ZX81, and ZX Spectrum included a set of text semigraphics with quadrant-based block elements. The ZX80 and ZX81 also included...
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    is related though not identical to the character set of the predecessor ZX80. The character set has 64 unique glyphs present at code points 0–63. With...
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  • Texas Instruments TI-99/4A, TRS-80, Minitel, Teletext, ATASCII, PETSCII, ZX80, and ZX81 character sets, as well as semigraphics characters. A supplement...
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    Sinclair QL Teletext TI calculators TRS-80 Ventura International WISCII XCCS ZX80 ZX81 ZX Spectrum Unicode / ISO/IEC 10646 UTF-1 UTF-7 UTF-8 UTF-16 UTF-32...
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  • Sinclair BASIC (category ZX80)
    This made code entry easier whilst simplifying the parser. The original ZX80 version supported only integer mathematics, which partially made up for some...
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  • Zhongxing) Walkman ZX Series, a series of digital audio players made by Sony ZX80, ZX81 and ZX Spectrum, home computers produced by Sinclair ZX Auto, also...
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    BBC Ceefax system which dated from 1976 encoded the £ as x23. The Sinclair ZX80 and ZX81 characters sets used x0C (ASCII: form feed). The ZX Spectrum and...
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    several of the previous Sinclair Radionics products. On 29 January 1980, the ZX80 home computer was launched to immediate popularity; notable for being one...
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  • computers would have as low as 1 KB (plus 4 KB ROM), such as the Sinclair ZX80 (while the later very popular ZX Spectrum had more memory), or even only...
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  • Smith, Bob (23 January 2016). "CroZXy Road - New 16K ZX81 game - Sinclair ZX80 / ZX81 / Z88 Forums". Sinclair ZX World. Archived from the original on 3...
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    z/OS (OS/390) and IBM i (OS/400) EBCDIC NL 15 21 \025 ZX80 and ZX81 (home computers from Sinclair Research Ltd) ZX80/ZX81 proprietary encoding 76 118...
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    systems, : used by CDC systems (this character had a value of zero), and the ZX80 used " since this was the string delimiter in its BASIC language. Somewhat...
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    Sinclair QL Teletext TI calculators TRS-80 Ventura International WISCII XCCS ZX80 ZX81 ZX Spectrum Unicode / ISO/IEC 10646 UTF-1 UTF-7 UTF-8 UTF-16 UTF-32...
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    Microsoft BASIC. Sinclair BASIC was introduced in 1980 with the Sinclair ZX80, and was later extended for the Sinclair ZX81 and the Sinclair ZX Spectrum...
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    Examples of such memory expansions include: Jupiter Ace RAM Pack Sinclair ZX80 RAM pack units (available in 1–3 KB and later 16 KB) Sinclair ZX81 16KB RAM...
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    Cambridge) entered the home computer market in 1980 with the ZX80 at £99.95. At the time the ZX80 was the cheapest personal computer for sale in the UK. This...
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    dozens of games during his career, which began in 1981 with games for the ZX80. Minter's games are shoot 'em ups which contain titular or in-game references...
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    Other examples of systems that relied on the use of block graphics are: The ZX80 and ZX81 character sets, where a matrix of 2×2 pixels was used, with the...
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  • Tandy TRS-80. This was a text only game. It was converted to the Sinclair ZX80 and ZX81, and Toms created the software label Addictive Games to launch the...
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  • TK80 (category Sinclair ZX80 clones)
    home computer produced by Microdigital Eletrônica. A clone of the Sinclair ZX80, it was introduced along with the TK82C in 1981 during the "I Feira Internacional...
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    images from games stored on magnetic tapes (from, for example, the Sinclair ZX80 computer) generally involves simply playing the magnetic tape using a standard...
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  • March 2000. The album cover features a 1980 home computer, the Sinclair ZX80. "Rewind Intro" "Communication Break-Down" "Deadly Media" "Ninja Tune" "Kids...
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  • terminal emulators can still be used by software for similar purposes. On the ZX80 and ZX81 computers, the Break is accessed by pressing Space. On the ZX Spectrum...
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    Nimbus SAM Coupé Sinclair Research MK14 (trading as Science of Cambridge) ZX80 ZX81 ZX Spectrum Sinclair QL Systime Computers Ltd Systime 1000, 3000, 5000...
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