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ITs History!
The ZX Spectrum was launched 1983 as #Timex Sinclair 2068 computer on the US market. With a #Z80A CPU running on 3.5 MHz this beautiful #homecomputer was capable to draw electric images on a regular telly. With a resolution of 256×192 #pixels even limited to 15 colours it was great for the budget.
https://youtu.be/iemMlbIY1SI

Print'n'Plotter sold their #graphics software under the same product name #Paintbox like #Quantel, but for #Sinclair #homecomputers. While #colourClash was a serious limitation in the 80s, it's a #8bit #cgi #glitch effect today available in smartphone camera apps.

Our #vector #graphic #illustration of this legendary #retrocomputer is a form of #digital #lithography. #IT's made in #svg tech and created with #Inkscape, not #Adobe #Illustrator #Ai
Vector illustration of Sinclair ZX Spectrum retro computer
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The Sinclair ZX Spectrum was launched 1983 as Timex Sinclair 2068 computer on the US market. Even when Commodore won the #8bitWars in the end, the ZX Spectrum sold 5 million units until 1992 for a initial price of £175 (48KB in the UK). With a Z80A 8-bit CPU running oh 3.5 MHz it was capable to do fancy computer graphics on a regular telly, at home for everybody.

Most likely because Quantel named their first system as simple as they did, Print'n'Plotter sold their graphic software under the same product name "Paintbox", but for the ZX Home Computers. In a resolution of 256×192 pixels and limited to 15 colours #IT was great for the budget. Demo graphics been fancy, even if not as WOOOW as the real Paintbox.
gfkdsgn.wordpress.com/2020/01/
Quantel wasn't in the Home computer business so not even MTV could afford more than a few. Real Paintbox systems are rare today, while the ZX Spectrum isn't so much.

The series of our 2023 tech anniversaries comes to a natural end and content plans for the next year have to be talked about internally. AFK

#tribute #vectorgraphics @art made in #SVG with @inkscape not #Adobe #Illustrator or #Serif #AffinityDesigner.

Sinclair ZX Spectrum - Print'n'Plotter graphics - Harry Plotter and the real Paintbox - IT tribute series made by gfkDSGN
#nostalgia#8bit#zxspectrum
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Topaz 🐇

New video! A decade before Adobe #Photoshop, one company made a bespoke computer whose artistic capabilities helped define the look of 80s and 90s TV shows, music videos, and print media. So why don't we call digital photo manipulation "being Paintboxed?"

makertube.net/w/kegieNpTzAbT2u

Big thanks to DextersTechLab on YouTube (youtube.com/@DextersTechLab) and Adrian Wilson (quantelpaintbox.com) for their help on this video!

PeerTubeDigital photo editing a decade before Photoshop? Meet the Quantel PaintboxBy The Industrious Rabbit
#DigitalArt#Quantel#Paintbox
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