P3D Re: Remember Polaroid Instant Movies? (Way Off Topic)

[Brian Reynolds <reynolds@xxxxxxxxx>]

BobH wrote:
> And up in Scotland, the Timex factory was turning out the Polaroid
> movie cameras..so it became out of work just in time to start
> building Sinclairs ZX-81 computer later sold here as the
> Sinclair-Timex computer. Small and had 6 million out when IBM had
> 300,000. They quit counting "home computers" in the statistics. So
> the failure loosed a new set of marvels. The ZX-81 programed
> internally in FORTH had single key stroke basic words and was a
> great success in university towns as the little thing could be built
> into projects. That is how I remember the Polaroid movie system..
> 

A small correction.  The Sinclairs had a built in BASIC interpreter.
The Jupiter Ace, which was a very similar machine designed and built
by a couple of former Sinclair engineers, had a built in FORTH
interpreter.  There was at least one public domain FORTH that you
could run on the Sinclairs.

I have an original Timex-Sinclair ZX-81 kit in storage that I bought a
few years ago.  Some day I'll get around to building it.  There is a
company still selling the kits on the net.  These are originals that
they got from a warehouse clearance or some such thing.

Unfortunately (given my preference for FORTH) I do not have a Jupiter
Ace.  You can get a Jupiter Ace emulator on from a site on the web.

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