ZX80 - was: SN76477N

Probalby the nearest equivalent is Alan Sugar (Amstrad). Their products are also cheaply made (but tend to work better than Sinclair!), and I am sure some people collect them. Amstrad, of course, sold PC near-compatibles where the PSU was in the monitor (one SMPSU for the monitor and computer), where the real-time clock battery was a set of 4AA cells that fitted into the top of the system unit (with no cover -- the cover was the monitor base), a laptop which was wider than a PDP11 (seriously, it's got a full-size 102 key keyboard. and other similarly 'interesting' products. Still, for some reason I acturally prefer them to Sinclair's offerings. It may well be because my first computer as a Sinclair (MK14), and I had so many problems with it (both from the manual and the ridiculous design) that I never want to suffer one of his products again. -tony