Steve Vickers (academia)

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Steve Vickers is the author of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum home computer ROM firmware. He is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham, UK.

[edit] Sinclair Research

In 1980 he started working for Nine Tiles which had previously written the Sinclair BASIC for the ZX80. His first job was the adaptation of the 4K ZX80 ROM to make an 8K ROM for the ZX81. He developed most of the ROM for the ZX Spectrum.

In 1982, Steve left to form "Rainbow Computing Co." with Richard Altwasser. The company became Jupiter Cantab and they were together responsible for the development of the largely unsuccessful Jupiter ACE, a competitor to the similar Sinclair ZX Spectrum.

[edit] External links

• Steve Vickers' Homepage at the School of Computer Science
• An interview with Richard Altwasser and Steven Vickers