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

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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. Follow the shack on twitter: https://twitter.com/ScottTh54604744 Support the channel: https://www.youtube.com/TheRetroShack/join Buy us a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/theretroshack 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 If you like this video, please consider joining as a member to help support the channel and to get some lovely little perks :) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCu_sNgTzqhX0xXc02ufoTYg/join