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																				The Sinclair ZX Spectrum is widely considered to be one of the most important home computers in British computing history. It helped kick start the UK games industry and taught a generation how to code.							
															
															
								But recently the holy grail of collectors items was donated to The Centre for Computing History - the original prototype of the machine.
													
													
												
											
											
											This hand built, computer represents the very birth of this iconic machine and is now in the safe hands of the Cambridge museum who will preserve it for future generations.					
																	The prototype has been in the possession of Nine Tiles the whole of its existence, a subcontract company who had been responsible for the Basic ROM in the ZX80 and ZX81, and finally the Spectrum.						
													The ZX80 and ZX81 basic were written by John Grant, who would comment in 1985 "Certainly with the Spectrum we wanted to rewrite the code, but there wasn't the time and there definitely weren't the resources. "At every point in the development of the ZX range Clive wanted the maximum new facilities for the minimum money."						
													This one of a kind machine has come to the museum with the enormous generosity of Kate and John Grant from Nine Tiles.
													
													For more information, contact Jason Fitzpatrick on 01223 214446 or jason@computinghistory.org.uk						
													
							
											                                    

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