Howard Winter wrote:

>Ake,
>
>ZX81...
>
>On Mon, 02 May 2005 08:39:49 +0200, Ake Hedman wrote:
>
> =20
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>>That was a wonderful thing. Clive Sinclair the genius designed it. Sold=
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>>as a kit also IIRC. Keyboard scanning, graphics generation etc done by=20
>>the CPU to keep the production cost down.
>>
>>Makes me remember....   :-)
>>   =20
>>
>
>Indeed, and the ZX81 was the successor to the ZX80, which was a bit less=
 capable.  I met "Uncle Clive" once=20
>(later "Uncle Sir Clive") at a computer exhibition, and asked him about =
a portable television of his design,=20
>because I had one that I wanted to use as a tiny computer monitor (text =
only of course - this was in the late=20
>70's when there was no such thing as graphics!).  He thought about it fo=
r a moment, and decided it wasn't=20
>really possible, because there was nowhere in the exposed circuitry wher=
e there was a straight "video" signal=20
>- the chip that did most of the work produced the scanning and luminance=
 signals directly, so it would have=20
>been really hard to spoof it.  Nice bloke, very friendly and helpful, an=
d very "ordinary" to talk to.  Shame=20
>about the C5...
>
>Cheers,
>
>
>Howard Winter
>St.Albans, England
>
>
> =20
>
This was certainly a man I also would like to have met.
Is hi still alive and around?   Maby should by a C5=20
http://www.nvg.ntnu.no/sinclair/vehicles/c5.htm ;-)

/Ake

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