Looking at the title of that ZX81 youtube video... 'People's Computer' ??? More likely 'People's Curse' !View attachment 24032
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It didn't get much better than this. Even now, the ZX81 is a design and implementation masterpiece; an entire working micro with keyboard, beeper, TV display graphics, mass storage interface, expansion port and ROM BASIC in only 4 chips, in 1981! Literally RAM, ROM, ULA (gate array) and Z80 CPU. A very ambitious design and a fantastic piece of work, given the limitations of technology at that time. Back then the DIY self-build ZX81 kit sold for 50 GBP... and an Apple 1 sold for 650 GBP, in the UK. My first computer
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFAWHB2BKOg
I found a better video here. I really think this machine was revolutionary at the time.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDorGWU1k3A&t=873s
With its predecessor, the ZX80, after switching it on you had to type something in fast and save it on tape before the POS overheated and froze! Lol, the number of times I used expletives with that machine! After its final boot, it became a frisbee then a door stop, the most useful it had ever been!
