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The Jupiter Ace was a British home computer of the 1980s; it displayed output on a television, and was physically quite similar to the the Sinclair ZX81, (having been designed by two of the team that worked on the ZX81) but with a white plastic case. What distinguished it from the ZX81 was that it came with Forth as its default programming language. |
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The Jupiter Ace was a British home computer of the 1980s, marketed by a company named Jupiter Cantab. The company was formed by Richard Altwasser and Stephen Vickers, who had been on the design team for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. The machine somewhat resembled a ZX81 in a white case, with rubber keys like the spectrum, It displayed output on a television, and programs could be saved and loaded on cassette, as was standard at that time. The machine came with 3K of RAM, expandable to 49K. |
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Sales of the machine were never very large; surviving machines are now (October 2001) quite uncommon, and fetch quite high prices as collectors items. |
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The major difference from the ZX81, however, was that its designers intended it to be a machine for programmers: the machine came with Forth as its default programming language. Though this gave a great speed advantage over the interpreted BASIC that was used on other machines, it kept the Ace in a niche market. Sales of the machine were never very large; surviving machines are now (October 2001) quite uncommon, and fetch quite high prices as collectors items. |
The major difference from the ZX81, however, was that its designers intended it to be a machine for programmers: the machine came with Forth as its default programming language. Though this gave a great speed advantage over the interpreted BASIC that was used on other machines, it kept the Ace in a niche market. Sales of the machine were never very large; surviving machines are now (October 2001) quite uncommon, and fetch quite high prices as collectors items.
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