Odom Member Posted April 23, 2012 Member Share Posted April 23, 2012 The ZX Spectrum is 30 years old. The successor to Sir Clive Sinclair's ZX81 - at the time the world's best selling consumer computer - it introduced colour "high resolution" graphics and sound. The thin Bauhaus-inspired design was sleeker than anything else on the market, but what was more impressive was its price: ?125 for the basic model with 16 kilobytes of RAM, or ?175 for the 48k model. That allowed adverts at the time to boast: "Less than half the price of its nearest competitor- and more powerful". Sir Clive believed hitting the low price points was crucial. Rival Acorn Computers had beaten him to a contract to build a tie-in computer for an educational BBC television series which started in January 1982. It seemed the best way to overcome that promotional advantage was to undercut the BBC Micro's ?299/?399 charge - and the strategy worked. ... Full article at the source. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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