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title: "Dateline:Tomorrow: Naked MicroAce On the Way. Also ZX81"
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excerpt: "We hear that the MicroAce II will be announced shortly. It will have a full-stroke keyboard, possibly 16K of on-board memory, will run 8K ZX80 Basic, but will not have a case or housing. According to insiders at MicroAce, it is a much improved machine and allegedly better than the recently introduced ZX81 by Sinclair/England.…"
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# Dateline:Tomorrow: Naked MicroAce On the Way. Also ZX81

We hear that the MicroAce II will be announced shortly. It will have a full-stroke keyboard, possibly 16K of on-board memory, will run 8K ZX80 Basic, but will not have a case or housing. According to insiders at MicroAce, it is a much improved machine and allegedly better than the recently introduced ZX81 by Sinclair/England. Speaking of the ZX81, it uses a new custom chip made by Ferranti which replaces 18 chips in the old ZX80. The ZX81 has a total of only four chips including a Z80A. A new “slow” mode of operation allows the ZX81 to compute and display simultaneously.