September 1987 · Computer or hardware
Cambridge Z88 (1987)
Portable Z80 notebook computer with 32 KB of RAM as standard, expandable to 3.5 MB.
Sir Clive Sinclair's final computer venture after selling the Sinclair brand to Amstrad. It was a Z80 notebook with a full-size rubber keyboard, a 640x64 LCD, removable cartridges and the built-in PipeDream word processor and spreadsheet.
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Facts
- Date
- September 1987
- Kind
- Computer or hardware: Portable computer
- Maker or publisher
- Cambridge Computer
- Platforms
- Z88
- CPU
- Z80A, 3.2768 MHz
- CPU speed
- 3.2768 MHz
- RAM installed
- 32 KB (up to 3.5 MB)
- RAM
- 32 KB, expandable to 3.5 MB
- Display
- 640x64 LCD, 8 text lines
- Power
- 4 AA batteries
Source: en.wikipedia.org
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