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April 1987

From Clive Sinclair: The No-Compromise Z88 Computer

After the financial turmoil bought on by the QL fiasco - late delivery, dodgy early firmware, and the curse of the Microdrive - together with other disasters like the Pocket TV an...

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November 1987

Z88: Buying a powerful personal computer is no longer a big issue. Or a big deal.

Clive Sinclair's company - Sinclair Research - had hit the buffers towards the end of 1985, and was sold - essentially for its name and merchandising rights - to brash new upstart...

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March 1988

A new kind of computer to revolutionise the way you work

Here's a nice advert ticking all the mobile-worker cliché boxes, not least the one of the dude on the train who's actually lucky enough to get a group of four seats all to himself...

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August 1990

Now you can write 450 A4 pages into an A4-size computer

It's over three years since the launch of Clive Sinclair's Z88 portable computer, and not much has changed, except that the price is finally back to its original launch price of £...

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