Andrew Newton on the video games we were playing back in the day…
To say the March of 1981 in the UK was an average month was a bit of an understatement. The weather was miserable and wet (being the second wettest March on record in England), unemployment was high and lots of people were knackered after the first ever London Marathon. Not even the opening of the very first Homebase store could cheer people up, however, there was one thing that did cheer up the masses and that was the release of a new computer onto the market…..
The Sinclair ZX81 – Sinclair Research Ltd
The successor to Sinclair’s ZX80, the ZX81 was designed to use as few components and be as cheap as possible for a public eager to get involved in the computer age. This new computer borrowed many of the features of the ZX80 including the unconventional keyboard, which was just a sheet of plastic over a…
