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Richard Altwasser is a British engineer and inventor best known for his work on the Sinclair ZX Spectrum computer. He was born in 1957 in England and studied at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology. Altwasser worked for Sinclair Research Ltd. from 1981 to 1984, where he was the lead designer of the ZX Spectrum. He also designed the ZX Interface 1, which allowed the Spectrum to connect to a printer, and the ZX Microdrive, a tape-based storage system. Altwasser left Sinclair Research in 1984 and went on to work for Amstrad, where he designed the CPC6128 computer. He also designed the Amstrad PCW8256, a word processor. Altwasser is currently a consultant for various companies, including the Raspberry Pi Foundation. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. As of 2021, Richard Altwasser's net worth is estimated to be around $1 million.

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1986

In 1986 Altwasser became the engineering director at Amstrad. The same year Amstrad, already itself a successful home computer manufacturer, bought Sinclair Research's computer business. Altwasser left Amstrad in 1992, taking on a number of director and executive jobs in other companies, such as Network Development Manager at RM plc from September 2000 to May 2003. As of 2011 he gives his occupation as a reader at Portishead parish.

1983

Jupiter Cantab launched only one major product, a home computer called Jupiter Ace. The Ace was a failure both in the UK and in the U.S. markets. The company went bankrupt in November 1983.

1982

Altwasser left Sinclair at the beginning of May 1982 to establish his own company, along with Steve Vickers, author of the Spectrum's ROM firmware and manual. Provisionally called Rainbow Computing Co., the company later became Jupiter Cantab Limited.

1981

After the launch of the ZX81, Altwasser was promoted to the computers development team and worked on the development of the ZX Spectrum, from the early technical discussions at the end of July 1981. His main contribution was the design of the graphics mode using less than 7 kilobytes of memory. He also participated in the preliminary stages of the development of the ZX Microdrive.

1978

Altwasser graduated at Trinity College, Cambridge, with a degree in engineering in June 1978. He was hired by Sinclair Research in September 1980. His first assigned job was to write some programs to demonstrate the capabilities of the new 8 kB ROM and 16 kB RAM expansion for the ZX80. After that, he worked on the printed circuit board of the ZX81.

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