{"id":61,"date":"2008-01-15T19:24:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-15T19:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/karwin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/01\/15\/macbook-air-almost-as-thin-as-a-sinclair-zx80\/"},"modified":"2008-01-15T19:24:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-15T19:24:00","slug":"macbook-air-almost-as-thin-as-a-sinclair-zx80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karwin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/01\/15\/macbook-air-almost-as-thin-as-a-sinclair-zx80\/","title":{"rendered":"MacBook Air &#8211; Almost as Thin as a Sinclair ZX80"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just watched the photos and text from today&#8217;s keynote at MacWorld.  Steve Jobs unveiled the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/MacBook_Air\">MacBook Air<\/a>, described as the world&#8217;s thinnest notebook computer.  I suddenly recalled being at a computer graphics user group at UCSC, circa 1982.<\/p>\n<p>One of the hobbyists in that group had a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sinclair_ZX80\">Sinclair ZX80<\/a>, a kit computer from the UK that was notable as the first personal computer available for under \u00a3100.  The thing that makes me think of that early PC in relation to Apple&#8217;s new notebook is that the ZX80 was even smaller and thinner than a MacBook Air.  We usually think of early PC&#8217;s as chunky monstrosities like the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Osborne_1\">Osborne 1<\/a> or the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Commodore_PET\">Commodore PET<\/a> that nonetheless cost over $1500.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s interesting to recall that more than 25 years ago, the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/OLPC_XO-1\">$100 portable computer<\/a> was a reality, though with far less computing power than a modern alarm clock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just watched the photos and text from today&#8217;s keynote at MacWorld. Steve Jobs unveiled the MacBook Air, described as the world&#8217;s thinnest notebook computer. I suddenly recalled being at a computer graphics user group at UCSC, circa 1982. One of the hobbyists in that group had a Sinclair ZX80, a kit computer from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[33,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-mac"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pawgV7-Z","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karwin.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karwin.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karwin.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karwin.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karwin.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/karwin.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karwin.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karwin.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karwin.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}