Why Clive Sinclair's final, simple, brilliant computer is still relevant and useful today.

Way before iPads, Newtons and Palm Pilots, Clive Sinclair released the Z88, the only release from his post-Sinclair Research company Cambridge Computers. It was simple, brilliant, but flawed. It wouldn't have taken much to make it perfect. As it stood, it was a productivity king. Let's have a look at it.

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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:32 History
05:58 Overview
08:00 Teardown
10:00 Power Up & Test
11:48 Wrap Up

Timeline of Sinclair’s Companies
Sinclair Radionics Reg. 1961
- MAT 100 (Micro Alloy Transistors)
- MAT 120
- MAT 101
- MAT 121

Science Of Cambridge Reg. 1973
- MK14 (1978)
- ZX80 (1980)

Sinclair Researc Reg. 1981
- ZX81 (1981)
- ZX Spectrum 16k (1982)
- ZX Spectrum 48k (1982)
- ZX Spectrum+ (1984)
- Sinclair QL (1984)
- ZX Spectrum 128k (1985)

Sinclair Vehicles Reg. 1983
- Sinclair C5 - (1985)

April 1986 - Sinclair sold to Amstrad for £5m

Clive Sinclair retained:
Anamartic Ltd.
- Wafer Scale Integration
- CT2 Mobile Telephony

Cambridge Computers
- Z88 (1987)

References
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Z88
https://www.flickr.com/photos/9574086@N02/sets/72157600856913881/
https://worldofspectrum.org/z88forever/index.html
https://oldcomputers.net/cambridge-z88.html
https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/6006/cambridge-z88-production-run
https://www.theregister.com/2014/02/19/archaeologic_sinclair_research_might_have_beens/?page=3
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epson_HX-20
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_Sinclair
https://www.crashonline.org.uk/28/news.htm
https://cambridgez88.jira.com/wiki/spaces/welcome/overview?mode=global

Attributions
By Source, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=28433463
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Sinclair_C5

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