On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 at 19:26, Adrian Graham via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> My first was a ZX80 which my Dad borrowed from my physics teacher at school. That spurred me on to get my own ZX81 which had just come out, then the Research Machines 380Z at later school, then the 48K ZXSpectrum. Amazing little machines for the money but I never discovered the name of the designer until much later. Same here! > You could’ve stopped after ‘flopped’ though the Oric went on to do very well in France and the Dragon still has a good userbase today. Strictly speaking they all do apart from the Lynx, but the Dragon is alive and well. The biggest Enterprise group is still in Hungary where the unsold machines were dumped after Enterprise Computers went bust in 1986. I'm in the Hungarian Enterprise owners group on FB -- machine translation is an amazing thing -- and I still hope to own one. The Oric did relatively well, yes -- better than the Dragon. But neither achieved more than a _fraction_ of the success of the Sinclair range, and as for the others -- Camputers, Memotech, Jupiter, Newbrain, even foreigners such as Mattel, Spectravideo, Sord -- they all put together probably sold fewer than Sinclair. In fact, I suspect that Sinclair and Commodore together outsold every other home micro vendor put together. And there were a _lot_. > Yep. RIP. I missed him doing ‘an evening with…’ last year at the Computer Museum in Cambridge, naturally I thought there’d be another one. :-( -- Liam Proven • Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • Google Mail/Hangouts/Plus: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/Flickr: lproven • Skype/LinkedIn: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 • ČR (+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal): +420 702 829 053
