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Manufacturer |
Grundy Business Systems (UK) |
Model |
Newbrain |
Date Launched |
July 1982 |
Price |
£233 for Model A |
Microprocessor type |
Zilog Z80A @ 4 MHz |
ROM size |
24 kilobytes |
Standard RAM |
32 kilobytes |
Maximum RAM |
2 megabytes (external expansion pack) |
Keyboard type |
Reasonable quality typewriter style but smaller keys than standard |
Supplied language |
ANSI BASIC (semi-compiled to run faster) |
Text resolution |
40 or 80 columns x 24 or 30 lines. |
Graphics resolution |
256, 320, 512 or 640 pixels horizontally x 250 pixels vertically. |
Colours available |
Monochrome |
Example Screenshot |
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Sound |
None |
Cassette load speed |
1200 baud |
Special features |
Small and easily portable. |
Good points |
Very large potential memory capacity. |
Bad points |
Poor documentation |
How successful? |
Was withdrawn in 1983, never selling in large numbers. |
Comments |
Development on what was to become the Newbrain began in May 1978 while Clive Sinclair was still at Radionics, and the first working prototypes appeared in 1980. When it eventually went on sale in 1982 it was in some ways an old design. |
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