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    From Dave Drum@1:229/452 to All on Sat Sep 18 10:49:08 2021
    I get the feeling I may be one of the few who never owned a Sinclair
    product .... not even a calculator.

    Still, he contributed much, directly and indirectly to our hobby/life/ professions.

    ... Amiga made it possible. Commodore made it dead.

    --- EzyBlueWave V3.00 01FB001F
    * Origin: Tiny's BBS - telnet://tinysbbs.com:3023 (1:229/452)
  • From Sean Dennis@1:18/200 to Dave Drum on Sat Sep 18 16:24:00 2021
    Still, he contributed much, directly and indirectly to our hobby/life/ professions.

    That he did and I'm grateful for it. He had a much bigger impact in the UK than in the US but I did own a ZX81 and a T/S 1000--which I still have with a 16K RAM cartridge and the original owner's manual--that got me started. The computer that I started actively programming on was my CoCo 2.

    --Sean

    --- Maximus/2 3.01
    * Origin: Outpost BBS (1:18/200)
  • From Carlos Navarro@2:341/234.1 to Dave Drum on Sun Sep 19 09:13:49 2021
    I get the feeling I may be one of the few who never owned a Sinclair product .... not even a calculator.

    I guess it depends on where you lived and your circumstances...

    Back then I would have liked to have a Vic-20 with its colours, sound and great keyboard, but Commodore computers were expensive over here (I was a teenager with a limited budget).

    Still, he contributed much, directly and indirectly to our hobby/life/ professions.

    Indeed!

    Carlos

    --- GoldED+/W32-MSVC 1.1.5-b20180707
    * Origin: Costa Blanca, Spain (2:341/234.1)
  • From Dave Drum@1:229/452 to Carlos Navarro on Sun Sep 19 10:12:14 2021
    Carlos Navarro wrote to Dave Drum <=-

    I get the feeling I may be one of the few who never owned a Sinclair product .... not even a calculator.

    I guess it depends on where you lived and your circumstances...

    Back then I would have liked to have a Vic-20 with its colours, sound
    and great keyboard, but Commodore computers were expensive over here
    (I was a teenager with a limited budget).

    When the Vic-20 appeared I was banging away at a TRS-80 Model 1. The
    Sinclair and the Commode Door were priced similarly here. The expensive
    toy was Apple which was overpriced by a factor of 10. That's still true
    today. Bv(=

    ... MS-DOS=Christianity; Mac=Bhuddism; Amiga=Pagan sex magick

    --- EzyBlueWave V3.00 01FB001F
    * Origin: Tiny's BBS - telnet://tinysbbs.com:3023 (1:229/452)