--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], new.morning <no_reply@> > wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <sparaig@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In [email protected], new.morning <no_reply@> > wrote: > <snip> > > > > Sinclair > > > > > > That was a late 70's computer, wasn't it? I started to > > > understand a few realities about the computer industry > > > when I noted the chicklet keyboard: mechanical stuff > > > stays expensive, even as computing power drops in price. > > > > It was a 78 or so mail-order paperbook size PC, with perhaps a > > membrane keybard if i remember as part of its body.Or maybe it > > was an all screen keyboard. Do you remember Judy / others. > > It was my first PC. pre-commodore 64. > > My Timex Sinclair had a membrane keyboard. It was a > bit bigger than a mass-market-size paperback (the kind > supermarkets sell), about 10" x 6" x 2", and you > plugged it into a TV set. No monitor of its own. > > Late '70s sounds about right.
Here's the one I had, the TS-1000: http://oldcomputers.net/ts1000.html Says 1982, and it looks more like about 10" x 10". 2K RAM, upgradable to 16K with a plug-in module. The page has links to a Popular Science article published when it first came out, and a review in Byte a year later. There's more about the computer on the ZX81 page; the ZX81 was the British version, released a year earlier: http://oldcomputers.net/zx81.html To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
