Way before iPads, Newtons and Palm Pilots, Clive Sinclair released the Z88, the only release from his postSinclair Research company Cambridge Computers. It was simple, brilliant, but flawed. It wouldn't have taken much to make it perfect. As it stood, it was a productivity king. Let's have a look at it.

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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:32 History
05:58 Overview
08:00 Teardown
10:00 Power Up & Test
11:48 Wrap Up

Timeline of Sinclair’s Companies
Sinclair Radionics Reg. 1961
MAT 100 (Micro Alloy Transistors)
MAT 120
MAT 101
MAT 121

Science Of Cambridge Reg. 1973
MK14 (1978)
ZX80 (1980)

Sinclair Researc Reg. 1981
ZX81 (1981)
ZX Spectrum 16k (1982)
ZX Spectrum 48k (1982)
ZX Spectrum+ (1984)
Sinclair QL (1984)
ZX Spectrum 128k (1985)

Sinclair Vehicles Reg. 1983
Sinclair C5 (1985)

April 1986 Sinclair sold to Amstrad for £5m

Clive Sinclair retained:
Anamartic Ltd.
Wafer Scale Integration
CT2 Mobile Telephony

Cambridge Computers
Z88 (1987)

References
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambrid...
https://www.flickr.com/photos/9574086...
https://worldofspectrum.org/z88foreve...
https://oldcomputers.net/cambridgez8...
https://retrocomputing.stackexchange....
https://www.theregister.com/2014/02/1...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epson_H...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_S...
https://www.crashonline.org.uk/28/new...
https://cambridgez88.jira.com/wiki/sp...

Attributions
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