Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!BLIULG11.BITNET!A-PIRARD From: A-PIRARD@BLIULG11.BITNET (Andr'e PIRARD) Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: Jupiter Ace Message-ID: <8909121326.AA04641@jade.berkeley.edu> Date: 12 Sep 89 07:27:39 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: Forth Interest Group International List Organization: The Internet Lines: 19 >I thought it disappeared because the company went bust. They probably did by now. But the ZX-80 was obsolete much before that. Later, Sinclair (UK) made the ZX-Spectrum (the most successful model with colour) then the QL (with a 68008 and 100K tiny tapes drives afterwards). >Are you sure it was made by sinclair? Pretty sure. The case was exactly the ZX-80's, with no more room than to fit Sinclair's PLAs. As to whether they were resold from Sinclair, built under licence or else, I don't know. Sorry it's long ago, but my memory seems to tell me ROMs were also sold separately for replacement on a genuine ZX-80. >Has anything like it been made since. Don't know. It looks like this kind of hardware died ever since CBM 64/Atari ST/Amiga defined the bottom level of the market. Yes, a pity for some hackers. Last time I saw a ZX-80, it was sold $20 (second hand). But remember it only used cassettes. And a colleague here lately bought a CP/M machine with 2 disk drives for $70... Andr'e.