This one was very cool and promising at the time, but little bit too late. It was a Z80 based "laptop" that sir Clive Sinclair though he could introduce to Europe and world. It had a very nice screen and some cool built-in applications (very much like Palm or or cell-phone organizers). I do not particularly care for its rubberized keyboard (much nicer keyboards are on TRS-80 models 100 and 102), but it has that thin and cool look of a finely designed machine.However, the technology was already leaning towards 16-bit micros and market already had similar machines. Example is Radio Shack's TRS-80 models 100 and 102 (above). Most of the people in the US used those as "laptops" of that era. Believe it or not some people use it even today for its nice keyboard and simplicity.
This particular Z88 has a problem that it would power on only after hard reset. Regular turn on and off do not work. If somebody has any pointer on how to solve that issue please let me know.
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