Photo credit: ETZoneSony shipped the SMC-70 in September 1982 as its first real microcomputer, first in the United States for office work and then in Japan on December 1. Most people walking past a gray-and-silver slab that year would have assumed it belonged to NEC or Sharp. Few realized the company that made Trinitron sets […]
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Tesla Charging posted the first Accordion Supercharger on September 15 and laid the plan out in one short clip. Factory work now covers the posts, the cabinet, the wiring, the cooling lines, and the concrete pads so a finished island leaves the plant instead of a pile of parts. Two of those eight-stall packages fit […]
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Sinclair shipped the ZX81 in 1981 with a Z80, an 8K ROM, and one kilobyte of static RAM. After the screen buffer and system variables took their share, a BASIC listing had only a few hundred bytes left to stand in. A black plastic box that slid onto the rear edge connector promised sixteen times […]