ZX81 references in Academic Journals

[swensont]

I've been looking at the ZX81 from the point of using it for comutation work. I did some Google searches looking to see if I could find any reference to the ZX81 in academic publications. I found a number and I thought that readers on this board might find them interesting.

Only a few of the articles are available for free. A number are locked behind a paywall for the different journals. Those that are free, a couple have program listings, and one has some hardware design diagrams. For a number of them, the ZX81 meant that grad students or underfunded departments could get access to a computer. In 1983, the ZX81 was selling for under $100 and a full system would cost less than $300 (including things like an A to D converter). At the same time a full blown IBM PC was in the thousands of dollars.

"Uning the Sinclair ZX81 Microcomputer in the Biochemistry Laboratory"
Booth & Dawson, University of Leeds
Biochemical Education, 1982

PDF link:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1 ... 0138-8/pdf

"A potentiometric analyser based on the ZX81 microcomputer"
Bateson, Moody, & Thomas, UWIST, Cardiff
Journal of Automatic Chemistry, Oct-Dec. 1983

PDF link:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/article ... 05-174.pdf

"An inexpensive computer and interface for research in the behavioral sciences"
Nicholls & Potter, Clarion State College, Pennsylvania
Behavioral Research Methods and Instrumentation, Vol. 14, 1982

PDF link:
http://download.springer.com/static/pdf ... 1&ext=.pdf

"A Photoelectric Data Reduction Program for the Sinclair ZX81 Computer"
Martin Watt, Lowell Observatory
I.A.P.P.P. Communications, 1982

"NMR simulation program for the ZX81 Computer"
Ronald Starkey
Journal of Chemical Education, July 1986

"A Low Cost Microcomputer Data Acquisition System for the Technicon Autoanalizer"
Winkelman & Leyshon
Agronomy Journal, November, 1983

"Using a Computer to Monitor Temperature and Light"
J. M. Watson
Journal of Biological Education, Volume 18, issue 1, 1984

Tim Swenson

[yerzmyey]

Heh, really interesting.