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3 unusual facts about Richard Altwasser


Altwasser

Richard Altwasser, a British engineer and inventor, responsible for the hardware design of the ZX Spectrum

Richard Altwasser

His first assigned job was to write some programs to demonstrate the capabilities of the new 8 kB ROM and 16 kB RAM expansion for the ZX80.

Altwasser left Sinclair at the beginning of May 1982 to establish his own company, along with Steve Vickers, author of the Spectrum's ROM firmware and manual.



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