Affectionately comic drama about the British home computer boom of the early 1980s. Legendary inventor Clive Sinclair battles it out with ex-employee Chris Curry, founder of Acorn Computers, for dominance in the fledgling market. The…
Year: 2018
SAM Coupé
The SAM Coupé is an 8-bit British home computer that was first released in late 1989. The machine is based around a Z80B CPU clocked at 6 MHz. The machine was marketed as a logical…
Sinclair C5
The Sinclair C5 is a small one-person battery electric velomobile, technically an “electrically assisted pedal cycle”. It was the culmination of Sir Clive Sinclair’s long-running interest in electric vehicles. Although widely described as an “electric…
THE DAWN OF THE DIGITAL AGE
THE INTRODUCTION OF THE COMPUTING CURRICULUM IS A WELCOME STEP FORWARD, BUT HAVE WE MISSED AN OPPORTUNITY TO CELEBRATE OUR HISTORY? The Introduction of the computing curriculum saw a sea change in attitudes towards the…
HOW BRITAIN ADOPTED THE HOME COMPUTER OF THE 1980s
PART 1: FROM EARLY HOBBYIST TYPE BEGINNINGS TO THE HOME COMPUTER ENTERING BRITISH MAINSTREAM HOUSEHOLDS. If we were are refer to the early 1980s as the Home Computer boom, then it can be said that…
Robotron KC87
The Robotron KC 87 was an 8-bit home computer produced in East Germany in 1987. Based around a 2.5 MHz U880 CPU, essentially a Zilog Z80 clone with a BASIC interpreter in ROM and software…
Commodore PET
The Commodore PET is a line of home/personal computers produced starting in 1977 by Commodore International. The system combined a MOS 6502 microprocessor, Commodore BASIC in read only memory (ROM), a keyboard, a computer monitor…