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Subject: Re: [OT]:: Why did the ZX80 CPU run at only 3.25- MHz
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The simple answer - hinted at in the link - is because it was designed
Clive Sinclair the man who designed  "one of the great marketing bombs of
postwar British industry " the C5 eclectic vehicle (There is a
mis-correction for electric there but I think it fair to let it stand.)
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On Wed, 1 Jan 2020 at 10:42, RussellMc <apptechnz@gmail.com> wrote:

>      IF Q: What's a ZX80?
> THEN A: This is not the post you want, nothing to see here, move along.
> ELSE
>
> Stack Exchange retrocomputing:
>
> Why did the ZX80 CPU run at only 3.25- MHz
>
>
> Well discussed elsewhere but there is enough relevant peripheral material
> to be of possible interest
>
>
>
> https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/13208/why-did-the-zx80=
-cpu-run-at-only-3-25-mhz
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