{"id":1089,"date":"2014-11-03T11:51:58","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T16:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=1089"},"modified":"2014-11-04T12:15:20","modified_gmt":"2014-11-04T17:15:20","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-memotech-modules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/1089\/retro-scan-of-the-week-memotech-modules","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Memotech ZX81 Modules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/memotech_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/memotech_small.jpg\" alt=\"Memotech Sinclair ZX81 Timex-Sinclair 1000 expansion modules advertisement - 1983\" class=\"retroscan\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>Extend your ZX81 a full ten inches<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Sinclair <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ZX81\" target=\"_blank\">ZX81<\/a> (marketed in non-kit form as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/477\/retro-scan-of-the-week-wheres-the-bits\" target=\"_blank\">Timex-Sinclair 1000<\/a> in the US) was a tiny computer with a tiny price and tiny capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>It was possible, however, to make up for some of those shortcomings with a wide array of plug-in peripheral modules from Memotech, seen here in this ad from 1983.  Furthermore, by piggybacking one module onto the next, it was possible to create an even more capable &#8212; and far longer &#8212; ZX81.<\/p>\n<p>I wish I had some of these Memotech modules to mess around with.  All I have is the bulbous Timex-Sinclair <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekvintage.com\/timex-sinclair-1000-1016-16k-ram.php\" target=\"_blank\">16K RAM Module<\/a>.  Time to check eBay.<\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From Personal Computing &#8211; November 1983, p.18]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong> What&#8217;s the smallest non-portable computer you&#8217;ve ever used? (e.g. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/477\/retro-scan-of-the-week-wheres-the-bits\" target=\"_blank\">Timex-Sinclair 1000<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Extend your ZX81 a full ten inches The Sinclair ZX81 (marketed in non-kit form as the Timex-Sinclair 1000 in the US) was a tiny computer with a tiny price and tiny capabilities. It was possible, however, to make up for some of those shortcomings with a wide array of plug-in peripheral modules from Memotech, seen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,27,26,10],"tags":[139,150,944,941,943,138,60,938,942,940,939],"class_list":["post-1089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-computers","tag-139","tag-advertisement","tag-expansion","tag-memotech","tag-modules","tag-personal-computing","tag-retro-scan","tag-sinclair","tag-small-computer","tag-timex-sinclair-1000","tag-zx81"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}