Younger readers may have looked at this morning's ZX Spectrum Google Doodle with confusion. The front page of Google UK is adorned with a relatively tiny Spectrum-themed doodle depicting St. George slaying a dragon. The image's size of 256 x 192 pixels is the maximum resolution the Spectrum could output, and it's rendered in the computer's splendid 8-bit color.
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The brainchild of inventor Clive Sinclair, the rainbow-bearing ZX Spectrum was the first computer that captured the British public's attention. Priced at £125, it was in a completely different price category to the Apple II or Commodore 64, and was half the price of its nearest competitor. It featured a 3.5MHz CPU, either 16kB or 48kB of RAM, and a cassette deck for reading and writing data. The computer was immensely popular — Sinclair sold over five million ZX Spectrums, and was many a Brit's first foray into computing.
Yup that google doodle would have had me stumped too, but at least I could blame it on being from Canada.
ReplyDeleteA few weeks ago the Google doodle was of Eadweard Muybridges running horse, and somebody on a forum said there was an error and asked if anyone could spot the error, nobody did and I still have no idea what the error was, or if the person was spoofing.
Computers sure have come a long way since the early days, just looking at the graphics is very amazing, the difference in detail and capability astounding, and the speed at which things developed and changed is simply amazing.
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