{"id":624,"date":"2010-01-11T20:42:50","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T01:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=624"},"modified":"2011-01-31T09:25:33","modified_gmt":"2011-01-31T14:25:33","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-the-cambridge-z88","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/624\/retro-scan-of-the-week-the-cambridge-z88","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> The Cambridge Z88"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/z88_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/z88_small.jpg\" alt=\"InterAct Sharkwire Online Nintendo 64 N64 Ad - 2000\" class=\"centered\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>There&#8217;s a little bit of Clive in every box.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Cambridge Z88 (1987) was a slim, diskless, battery-sipping laptop computer similar to the famous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/467\" target=\"_blank\">TRS-80 Model 100<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, former <em>VC&#038;G<\/em> contributor Gnome <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/175\" target=\"_blank\">wrote about this machine<\/a> for us in 2006.  He makes specific note of the Z88&#8217;s relationship to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Clive_Sinclair\" target=\"_blank\">Sir Clive Sinclair<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sinclair_Research\" target=\"_blank\">Sinclair Research<\/a> fame.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have a Z88, but I love laptops in this monolithic, almost slate-like form factor.  If you have one you&#8217;d like to get rid of, I&#8217;m all ears.<\/p>\n<p><center><em><small>[ From Byte Magazine, October 1988, p.88 ]<\/small><\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong>  Have you ever owned a laptop with a non-folding screen (i.e. not a clamshell design) like the Z88 above?  What did you like or dislike about it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a little bit of Clive in every box. The Cambridge Z88 (1987) was a slim, diskless, battery-sipping laptop computer similar to the famous TRS-80 Model 100. Interestingly, former VC&#038;G contributor Gnome wrote about this machine for us in 2006. He makes specific note of the Z88&#8217;s relationship to Sir Clive Sinclair of Sinclair Research [&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":[],"class_list":["post-624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624","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=624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}