About everything - pages of history: the history of the Sinclair's Z88 mobile computer.

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That’s how it used to be, sitting peacefully in class
English language, you don’t think about anything, but
Here's how will make  translate "thousands" from
"popular science  magazines"... And then yes-
an experienced Englishman will understand little. Ku-
Yes, here we are, with a “Ryazan” accent.    
                                          
But even in old, unnecessary magazines you can
dig  interesting things. An example of such races
dig  you can read below. I hope
you, dear readers, will be interested
learn  about  one  from projects K. SINCLAIR,
which he did after selling the rights toproduced by ZX-SPECTRUM.                 
                                          
Illustration  scanned  from this  same
articles. For those especially gifted comrades,
who are accustomed to reading everything in the original language
ginala, and for all those who doubt
the correctness of my translation, after the Russian
The first text is the English "source".     
                                          
                      "Read and proofread!"
                                          
                                          
       ELECTRONICS & WIRELESS WORLD       
    (APRIL l987 VOLUME 93 NUMBER lвlЧ)    
                                          
              page 37 (39l)               
                                          
              Sinclair's Z88              
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   Having sold  trademark  SINCLAIR con-
cernu  Amstrad, Sir Clive Sinclair founded
new  company, Cambridge Computers. Her
first  product - computer Z88 - lap-tor,
powered by  from  batteries, supplied  co
built-in   text   processor,  BBC
Basic,  spreadsheets, database
data, calculator and diary.     
                                          
                                          
   Basicthe model provides 32KV
RAM but you can connect up to three cartridges -
zhey expansion of RAM at 32K, 128K, and (will
available later) 1MB. In the same way
PROMs with the same characteristics can be used
characteristics.                              
                                          
                                          
   Screen display consists of 8 lines of 80
characters and has an additional area,
representing  a  page in which
Each  character  is shown as a matrix
check. There is also a menu and a level indicator
Nya  charging the batteries. Standard interface
RS232  provides data output to the printer
ter, possibility of exchangeфайлами с
IBM-совместимыми ПК.                      
                                          
                                          
                                          

                                          
   Having   sold  the  Sinclair  brand  то
Amstrad,  Sir Clive Sinclair has started a
new   company,  Cambridge  Computers.  Its
first   product   is   Z88   computer;   a
battery-powered lap-тор which comes with a
built-in    word-processor,   ВВС   Basic,
spread-sheet,   database,  calculator  and
diary/calendar. 32K of ram is provided but
it  is possible то plug in ир то three ram
extension  cartridges,  of  32K, 128K, and
(available  later) 1Mbyte. Eproms with the
same  capacities  can  be used in the same
way.                                      
                                          
                                          
   The   display  offers  8  lines  of  80characters  with  an  additional  area  in
which  every character is represented by a
dot  mapped  то  given  an overview of the
page   layout.   There   is  also  a  menu
indication   and   a  status  display  for
battery   level.  An  RS232  output  то  а
printer  is  provided,and  the  ability то
transfer  files  то  and  from  ап  IBM  -
compatible РС.                            
                                          
                                          
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