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excerpt: "I recently acquired a 288 portable computer. For those of you who have never heard of it, it is a small portable computer created by Clive Sinclair in 1988. This was obviously created after Sinclair Research, Ltd., the company that created the QL, went belly up, so Clive created a new company called Cambridge Computing…"
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# Me and My Z(88)

I recently acquired a 288 portable computer. For those of you who have never heard of it, it is a small portable computer created by Clive Sinclair in 1988. This was obviously created after Sinclair Research, Ltd., the company that created the QL, went belly up, so Clive created a new company called Cambridge Computing – no relation to Cambridge, MA.