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	Sinclair ZX80 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Sinclair ZX80 was a home computer brought to market in 1980 by Sinclair Research.
		The machine was based around the NEC 780C-1 CPU (a Zilog Z80 clone) @ 3.25 MHz, and equipped with 1 KB of static RAM (expandable to 16K), and 4 KB ROM containing the Sinclair BASIC programming language, editor, and "OS".
		BASIC commands were not entered by spelling them out; instead, the commands were selected rather like they would be on a scientific calculator — each "key" had several different functions activated by use of several modifier (shift) keys.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sinclair_ZX80 (354 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Technology \| Technology \| Time for some Basic training
		Writing programs in Basic was once the whole point of owning a home computer, but today, only a tiny percentage of computer users are bedroom coders, according to Ivo Salmre, the product manager in charge of programming tools at Microsoft.
		But programming has also become much harder: writing a program that can take advantage of Windows' mouse-driven graphical user interface is more demanding than writing one that simply displays text, and 3D games often need whole teams of highly skilled programmers to create them.
		Programming may be a little harder today than it was 20 years ago, but with a little Basic knowledge, it is certainly still possible for anyone to whip up a program on a variety of platforms.
	technology.guardian.co.uk /online/story/0,3605,1022654,00.html (665 words)

	An introduction to programming the Amstrad CPC 464 664 6128 computer
		By the time the Amstrad came along, Basic was the default programming language on most home computers including the competing Acorn, Commodore and Sinclair machines.
		A public domain scene was built around enthusiasts writing programs to meet their needs, either because there wasn't anything specific enough on the market or because they relished the challenge of coding from scratch.
		Programming Basic enabled many Amstrad users to invent their own worlds on their home computers.
	www.sean.co.uk /books/amstrad/bforbasic.shtm (1061 words)

	BASIC programming language - Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		BASIC's name, coined in classic, computer science tradition to produce a nice acronym, stands for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code,¹ tied to the name of an unpublished paper by the language's co-inventor, Thomas Kurtz (the name thus having no relation to C. Ogden's series "Basic English").
		The original BASIC language was invented in 1964 by John Kemeny (1926–93) and Thomas Kurtz (1928–) at Dartmouth College.
		BASIC was intended to address the complexity issues of older languages with a new language designed specifically for the new class of users the time-sharing systems allowed—that is, a "simpler" user who was not as interested in speed as in simply being able to use the machine.
	www.book-spot.co.uk /index.php/BASIC (2758 words)

	Timex/Sinclair ZX81
		It has a membrane type keyboard which doesn't allow you to type in BASIC keywords, instead you have to push and hold a function key while hitting a specific letter key and the BASIC keyword is printed on the screen.
		The cassette recorder was generally slow and unreliable and greatly dependent on a number of factors such as the volume the recorder is set at to record or playback a program.
		All this was sold at $79.95 for the basic unit in kit form and $99.95 fully assembled and tested when equivalent machines at that time were selling at 6 times the cost.
	www.myoldcomputers.com /museum/comp/zx81.htm (567 words)

	The Sinclair Lair
		The brilliant technical career of Sir Clive Sinclair started when he was still at school but Sinclair Research, the computer company - his third attempt at a high-tech firm - was not founded until July 1979.
		Sinclair offered incentives to customers, such as a free RS-232 lead, but his reputation had been seriously damaged.
		Robert Maxwell boldly announced a takeover of Sinclair Research during the summer - by the autumn, though, the Maxwell board had rejected the move and Sir Clive was once more on his own.
	www.waddington.fslife.co.uk /clive_bows_out.htm (994 words)

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		Because of the simplicity and small size of the original Basic programming language, it was widely adopted in the late '70's and early '80's as the most common and prevalent language for almost all personal computers.
		These simple Basic interpreters also had a stored program mode, where one would write a multi-line program, with each line with a line number, be able to save the program and then to run the program at a later time.
		Very short Basic program may be written in the Scratchpad, but with several limitations: programs must start with a "new" statement and end with a "run" statement (without line numbers), all other statements must have sequential and non-overlapping line numbers.
	www.nicholson.com /rhn/hotpaw/quickref.txt (4969 words)

	Sinclair ZX-81 computer
		The ZX81 has the same microprocessor and runs at the same speed as the ZX80, but it has a better BASIC programming language and is cheaper to produce, due to having fewer chips and a simpler design.
		The CPU has to perform all of the tasks that are required of a computer, which means it executes the BASIC program and updates the screen at the same time, slowing the program speed.
		The Sinclair ZX81 is such a slow and difficult to use computer, many people found that it works better as a door-stop than as a computer...
	www.oldcomputers.net /zx81.html (557 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Fortunately, there were books featuring a vast number of different game programs that could be typed in using a programming language called BASIC (Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) so others could possibly learn from them how to create their own games, however simplified they may be from those done in machine language.
		What it did have, despite its shortcomings, was an easy-to-learn version of BASIC that, given time and some good books on programming the Timex Sinclair 1000, would allow a user to learn how to develop his or her own programs,including games.
		Still, with the amount of printed game programs that appeared in books and newsletters, one could never get bored with the amazing amount of gameware that otherwise was not readily available for this small personal computer system.
	www.angelfire.com /80s/vicgeorge01085/games3.htm (734 words)

	World of Spectrum - Sinclair BASIC - Introduction
		Sinclair BASIC is a popular version of the BASIC (Beginner's All purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) programming language.
		Sinclair Extended BASIC is intended as a universal Open Source update to this language to fix the bugs, improve the editor, and resolve hardware conflicts between various versions of the ZX Spectrum.
		Having said that, Sinclair Extended BASIC is compatible with the Pentagon, SpeccyBob, Chrome and ZXGATE.
	www.worldofspectrum.org /sinclairbasic (569 words)

	Pentax Zx L (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Sinclair ZX Spectrum was a small home computer released in the United Kingdom in 1982 by Sinclair Research.
		The hardware designer was Richard Altwasser of Sinclair Research and the software was written by Steve Vickers (on contract from Nine Tiles Ltd, the authors of Sinclair BASIC).
		This extended the error handler in the Sinclair BASIC programming language to allow extra keywords to be used.
	www.wwwtln.com /finance/143/pentax-zx-l.html (1902 words)

	Commodore Languages List
		Many more languages are available for the C128's CP/M mode (see here for some information on CP/M for the C128, CP/M files at retroarchive.org and CP/M files at the Cereal Port BBS), under OS/9 on the SuperPET, and still more cross-development languages for other platforms, however, these are not included in this list.
		Program development is illustrated in a work shop about desk accessory and application.
		BASIC and Pascal-like language with turtle graphics, sprites, long variable names, named procedures, powerful string handling and run-time compiling.
	www.npsnet.com /danf/cbm/languages.html (3969 words)

	Sinclair User 51 - Sinclair bows out
		Sinclair is Guardian Young Businessman and is knighted in the Queen's Birthday Honours.
		Sinclair Research initially sold the Spectrum by mail-order only.
		Sinclair repaid the larger part of his debts over the Christmas period through a £10m bulk purchase of Spectrum Pluses by Dixons and by February at the launch of the new 128K Spectrum, Sir Clive was predicting his company would again be the jewel in the British Computing crown.
	www.sincuser.f9.co.uk /051/sincbow.htm (1150 words)

	Sinclair ZX80 computer
		British company Sinclair released their ZX80 computer in 1980 for $199.95.
		It is considered to be the world's first computer for under $200, at least that's what Sinclair Research Ltd stated in all of their ads.
		Sinclair sold 70,000 ZX80s before they came out with the improved ZX-81 one year later.
	oldcomputers.net /zx80.html (317 words)

	lf277, SoftwareDevelopment: BASIC programming with Unix
		Like other scripting languages, BASIC is mostly an interpreted one and uses a rather simple syntax, without data types, apart from a distinction between strings and numbers.
		The BASIC language (Beginners All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) was born in 1964 at the Dartmouth college in New Hampshire (USA), where it has been developed by John G. Kemeney (1926-93) and Thomas E. Kurtz (1928-).
		The Liberty BASIC is one of those having appeared in the 90's on Windows platforms and which has been rather successful because of its free availability (hence the name).
	www.tldp.org /linuxfocus/English/January2003/article277.shtml (3117 words)

	Basic Programming Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In case you are using an object-oriented programming language, you may ask yourself...
		C# is an object-oriented programming language designed for...
		JavaScript is the most popular programming language for short programs or "scripts" that are downloaded from a...
	www.wikiverse.org /basic-programming-language (3011 words)

	OLD-COMPUTERS.COM : The Museum
		The Sinclair Spectrum was one of the most popular European computers of the 80's.
		It is impossible to type BASIC keywords letter by letter, instead you have to use function keys.
		A lot of peripherals and programs were developed for this computer.
	www.old-computers.com /museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=223 (283 words)

	A Seeker of the Elusive Truth...
		From storing programs on a portable (often iffy) personal cassette recorder to a machine with (from tomorrow) 240GB of internal harddisk storage.
		Basically the same machine, but with 128K and better BASIC -- also it had built in hardware emulation of the C64, ran all the same software as well as running C/PM (forerunner to MS-DOS) because it had both 8502 (6510 compatible) and Z80 microprocessors (duel).
		Today's software companies seem to be hell-bent on pricing out from the market the average home user, the person who has other things that they need to spend their money on (like food, power and other household bills).
	www.livejournal.com /users/knightofosiris (3689 words)

	Pentax Zx 60 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Programs and data were stored using a normal cassette recorder.
		As this became an official standard, other developers quickly used this mechanism to create language extensions to Sinclair BASIC.
		Data could be sent or received at 100 baud either to or from a numbered workstation, or broadcast to all nodes, allowing one machine to act as a server.
	www.wwwtln.com /finance/143/pentax-zx-60.html (1902 words)

	Amazon.com: PC Magazine Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to the Windows Api/Book and Disk: Books: Daniel Appleman,Dan ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		I've been programming in Visual C++ and Visual Basic since 1993, and I found "Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to the Windows Api/Book" to be a valuable reference manual.
		I have been programing with Basic since 1975 and I have read and studdied many books on the subject.
		It is made simple such that even a novice programmer will be able to understand the book and use it in his programs.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1562760734?v=glance (616 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Building Applications and Components with Visual Basic .NET (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		If you're migrating from an object-oriented programming language such as C++ or Java, your transition to Visual Basic.NET will likely be a bit easier, but there are still plenty of details you must learn.
		It's helpful (but not essential) that you know the basics of computer science.It would be impossible to conduct an in-depth discussion of developingsoftware for the.NET Framework without talking about issues suchas scope, lifetime, the call stack, the heap, and threads.
		A familiarity with previous Visual Basic versions and a rock-solid understanding of object-oriented programming theory and methodology is essential.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0201734958 (2546 words)

	ZX81 Books - Still Available
		Anyone with a basic understanding of electricity and of the BASIC programming language can quickly learn to measure and control experiments and instrumentation with microcomputers.
		An excellent introduction to programming in BASIC on the Timex Sinclair 1500 and ZX-81.
		This is the Spanish version of the ZX81 programming manual that Sinclair shipped with their kits and computers to South America.
	www.zebrasystems.com /zebrasystems/zx81/products/books3a.htm (588 words)

	[vox] ISO: Good programming language to teach an 8yr old (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		I've been thinking about introducing basic (not BASIC) programming to my 5 year old at some point (probably when he's a little older than 5).
		I kind of liked the idea of something that could graduate into GUI programming.
		Bill Kendrick wrote: >Back when I was 8 years old (about 20 years ago now!), I programmed in >BASIC on my Timex Sinclair 1000 and Atari 1200XL computers.
	www.lugod.org /pipermail/vox/2004-March/002676.html (411 words)

	Attribute clash Definition \| Computer Dictionary \| Define meaning of Attribute clash
		Attribute clash was a display artifact caused by limitations in the graphics circuitry of early colour 8-bit home computers - infamously the Sinclair ZX Spectrum.
		The Spectrum's variant was caused by the idiosyncratic display memory layout.
		Rather than restricting the colour palette to conserve memory (the initial model of the Spectrum had only 16KB of RAM, which was used for the screen as well as program storage), Sinclair's design stored pixel and colour information separately, with colour information being stored at only the text character resolution - 32x24.
	www.cpupedia.com /definition/attribute+clash.aspx (224 words)

	Eisenbacher (1983) Programming your Timex/Sinclair 1000 in BASIC
		Eisenbacher (1983) Programming your Timex/Sinclair 1000 in BASIC
		Timex 1000 (Computer); BASIC (Computer program language); Programming
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	www.getcited.org /?PUB=102282784&showStat=Ratings (81 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Using and Programming the Zx81/Ts1000, Including Ready-To-Run Programs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Amazon.ca: Books: Using and Programming the Zx81/Ts1000, Including Ready-To-Run Programs
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	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0830601171 (117 words)

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