Devised in Cambridge but made in Dundee the ZX81 was a landmark computer delivered in a compact, micro format designed by Rick Dickinson – who later won a Design Council Award for his sleek creation.

What if you could hold a piece of computing history in your hands—only this time, it’s smarter, sturdier, and ready for the modern age? The ZX81, a innovative device that introduced countless people ...

This is a wonderful example of the phenomenon of “feature creep”. [Gert] was working on getting a VGA output running on an mbed platform without using (hardly) any discrete components. Using only a ...

If you would like to experience what home computing was like back in the 1980s, when Clive Sinclair introduced and launched his ZX81 home computer. You may be interested in a ZX 81 compatible Z 80 ...

When Maurizio Banavage was about 15, he was given an old Spectrum ZX81 computer to convert into traffic lights for a school project. When friends and relatives realised what he could do, they started ...

Whatever the first computer you used to manipulate digital audio was, the chances are it came with dedicated sound hardware that could play, and probably record, digitized audio. Perhaps it might have ...

The iconoclastic inventor father of the home micro has died aged 81. I was probably the ideal customer for Clive Sinclair when he got started in the electronics business. He was keen to build a ...

For many, the ZX81 offered a gateway to not only computing and coding itself, but also into the rich and growing world of video games. Its legacy today is alive and well today thanks to the revival of ...