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 | | The ZX Spectrum was a home computer released in the United Kingdom in 1982 by Sinclair Research Ltd. Originally dubbed the ZX82, the machine was later renamed the Spectrum by Sinclair to highlight the machine's colour display, compared to the fl-and-white of its predecessors, the ZX80 and ZX81. |
 | | The Spectrum was the first mainstream audience home computer in the UK, similar in significance to the Commodore 64 in the USA; the C64 was the main rival to the Spectrum in the UK market during the 1980s. |
 | | The Spectrum had an interesting method of handling colour; the colour attributes were held in a 32×24 grid, separate from the text or graphical data, but was still limited to only two colours in any given character cell, both of which had to be either bright or non-bright. |
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