Saturday, July 7, 2007

Rare boxed Sinclair ZX-81 sighted

The Sinclair ZX-81, the ZX Spectrum's daddy, was released back in 1981 and was probably the first home computer capable of playing some decent games. It was after all the home of classic maze game 3D Monster Maze (read an excellent making of... article over @ EDGE) and brilliant Sabotage. The machine featured some lovely black and white ASCII graphics, 1 whole Kilobyte of memory and one of those dreaded membrane keyboards.

The ZX-81, despite its now laughable capabilities, is quite a rarity and usually sells for over 60£, 120$ or 85€, which means that this boxed Sinclair ZX-81 auction @ ebay is a definite bargain. Happily, seller ships worldwide.

5 comments:

  1. jeez a kilobyte of memory.. and i complain about my 256mb

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  2. Well, seems you're quite a whining little Elderly...

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  3. Its getting a bit scarey... I see a picture at the top of the post and know which one of you posted before I've checked out the poster! (If that makes sense...

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  4. Your new powers are what's getting scary...

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  5. really scary....(moves slowly away from FK....)

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