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@gitpush You're probably confusing it with ZX81. On ZX80, 1KB total memoy was minimum, but half of it was video memory, leaving a work memory of 512 KB.
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@TerriToniAX I honestly don't know, I ddg it and saw the first result only, but why was it discontinued a year after when it achieved great success (according to wikipedia)
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@gitpush Because it was replaced by ZX81 :) Sorry, I just realized I was incorrect in my comment above. The ZX81 was still 1KB. The minimum of 16 KB came with the ZX Spectrum, which in turn replaced the ZX81. I had a ZX Spectrum, that was my first computer ever :)
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@TerriToniAX I see, I liked its size though it was small, but they said it used to heat up a lot? wasn't its cooling system good enough for the hardware?
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@gitpush Most home computers at the time had a few vents in the case to evacuate warm air, that's all the cooling system they had ;)
tl;dr don't, just don't.
A curious little me (12-14 years) just stated using the family shared computer.
And ...
Coming home after school , just to relax and play pinball on the PC ...windows 98 ..good times ..the quest of ...
When the company my mother worked for was arranging computer courses and could not leave the computers in the borrowed classrooms.
They brought them home and I got to play with them :)
Sinclair ZX80 with 512 bytes of RAM (no hard drive, diskette or CD).
This was 38 years ago ;)
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