{"id":42,"date":"2013-06-05T20:46:06","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T19:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=42"},"modified":"2015-02-21T13:49:06","modified_gmt":"2015-02-21T13:49:06","slug":"cambridge-z88","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/?p=42","title":{"rendered":"Cambridge Z88"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/03c5e984b174a7d79b66712afd665797.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-235\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/03c5e984b174a7d79b66712afd665797-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"03c5e984b174a7d79b66712afd665797\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/03c5e984b174a7d79b66712afd665797-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/03c5e984b174a7d79b66712afd665797-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/03c5e984b174a7d79b66712afd665797.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The Z88 was launched in September 1987 and is, in my opinion about the pinacle of Sinclair design. It&#8217;s a compact, portable computer on the go.<\/p>\n<p>Is has a Z80 processor, popular at the time. The decent size keyboard is reminicient of the Spectrum but a lot better. It doesn&#8217;t have much travel and stops abruptly but you could certainly type quickly and accurately for quite a while.<\/p>\n<p>Above the keyboard is a small LCD that goes the whole width but is onlt about 2.5 CM high. There is no back light.<\/p>\n<p>The integrated software is called &#8220;Pipedream&#8221; and has a word processor, spreadsheet and the other bits and pieces this class of machine from the UK sported at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Despite its CMOS Z80, the Z88 could address a whopping 4MB of memory in 256 x 16k pages and EPROM and FLASH memory cartridges are available.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly mine is on the blink at the moment, I suspect the keyboard as a reset has it skipping and dancing but the double shift key start and shutdown isn&#8217;t working.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Z88 was launched in September 1987 and is, in my opinion about the pinacle of Sinclair design. It&#8217;s a compact, portable computer on the go. Is has a Z80 processor, popular at the time. The decent size keyboard is reminicient of the Spectrum but a lot better. It doesn&#8217;t have much travel and stops &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/?p=42\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cambridge Z88<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c89-cambridge-z88"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"andy","author_link":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/?author=1"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":704,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}