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TS 1500
Timex / Sinclair, 1983
The TS 1500 (above), launched
in August 1983, was a stop-gap between the TS
1000 and the forthcoming American version of the
Spectrum, the TS
2000. It was a ZX81
with an internally-housed 16K RAM expansion module, in a black
and silver Spectrum-style box with the familiar "dead
flesh" rubber keyboard. The updating of the ZX81 design
was an attempt to counter the two biggest drawbacks of the
TS 1000, namely the touch-sensitive keyboard and the minuscule
1K of memory. The machine failed dismally: no matter how much
it was dressed up, it was still a ZX81, with most of that
machine's limitations still intact.
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© Chris Owen 1994-2003
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