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Posted by anthonyberet on 11/22/05 22:34
Cliff Haynes wrote:
> It came as a kit from Sinclair somewhere up in NH.
> The ZX-81 was the last one....
> Then it went to Timex/Sinclair.... Lasted about 6mo & the drug store's in
> Seattle sold them out the door at $10 a pop... By then IBM clones had taken
> over as well as the RS Colour computer .. Eveyone was jump'n on the band
> wagon.... Texas Instruments.... Atari..... And a few others..... It
> moved quick then... IBM clones had dos.... for the most part... Windows
> came along, I bought a mouse for $20... As a pluss, Windows 3.0 came w/ it
> I had, by then got a Hyndi clone.... What a blast! LOL..... Monochrom
> monitor & windows Hahhahaahah..... Anyway... Had a "music" file that
> played notes thro' the pc's speaker... !wOw! Sound!
> By this time it was IBM Clones & Apples....
> Enough....
>
I think that is the US side of the story.
How tragic that you never got to play with a speccy:
http://thespeccyzone.emuunlim.com/
http://www.obsoletecomputermuseum.org/spectrum/
http://www2.b3ta.com/heyhey16k/
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