Build Your Own Sinclair ZX81 Ad, BYTE Magazine, Volume 7, Number 9, September 1982

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Mine, highly modded, inside a gutted Atari 400 box. Has a homemade hi-res module 256x192, Sound board AY-3-8912, homemade keyboard, modified ROM with extra functions, dual boot with assembly compiler, 10KB ROM, 6KB Static RAM, 16KB Dynamic RAM.

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- I love the putting it in a gutted A400.
  
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$80 in '82 is ~$260 now.

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- Damn. Just ran that and came to your comment.
  
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- And now look at current prices for game consoles...
  
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  I don't think that's a good comparison.
  
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TheTimex Sinclair (assembled) was marketed as the first home computer for under a hundred bucks ($99). A buddy of mine ran a BBS dedicated the Sinclair. He ran it on a Commador 64

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oh damn, thank you for posting this! I had one of these as a kid but could never remember exactly which one it was but that jogged the memory instantly

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- Merry Christmas :D
  
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Still have mine!

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- I wish I still had mine. 3D monster maze, 1k chess, nightgunner, gulpman.
  
  My neighbor had a zx80. I remember playing a game on that too, but i don't remember what it was.
  
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- Me too. Luckily I had a friend who studied electrical engineering who helped me put it together.
  
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  I added pictures to the root post
  
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- Did you build it yourself? It looks awesome!
  
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  Added pictures to the root post. Check it out
  
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