I got a Commodore VIC20. Icky. You could only program in BASIC but you could
store stuff on a regular audio cassette tape. You didn't need a monitor
because you hooked it up to your TV... however you could probably learn more
about computer science by just watching TV. ;-)
A year later I went to work for Fujitsu Microelectronics. They somehow
thought they could set the standard in this fledgling PC industry. They
first started with a Z80 chip and they had a pretty good machine running CPM
with a C compiler. (Now CPM was an O/S!) I used that PC to do my homework
for my Intro to C Programming night class at the community college. Soon
after that came the IBM PC and Fujitsu actually had an early PC clone that
ran MS-DOS. Trouble was it wasn't a "compatible" MS-DOS so you couldn't run
Lotus 123. But SuperCalc worked OK. Go figure. At the same time one of their
largest customers was a small startup company to which they sold gobs of
memory chips. It was a huge financial risk but this small startup kept
paying on time so they kept shipping them more memory. What was the name of
that risky small startup? Oh yeah, it was a weird name... "Compaq." The rest
is history.
And now you know "the rest of the story."
Steve Orr
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Kenneth R
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 1:46 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
I had a Spectrum 48K and the rest of the story is about the same for me.
Same downward spiral and all...
-----Original Message-----
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 4:16 PM
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Sinclair was a brand of personal computers that came out in the UK about 20
years ago,
If memory serves , they started of with the ZX 81 which had a whole 1K of
memory.
Their next offering was the Spectrum 16K followed by the 48K. with rubber
keys and programmable in basic.
I remember back in the early 80's I got one for my 14th birthday and that
set me on the downward spiral to
where I am now :-) as a dba
they subsequently went bust, and I still have that Spectrum 48K after
nearly 20 years.
You can get emulaters for it on the PC.
Any more spectrum owners out there that want to admit to it ?
Brian
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MMMMMMmmmmmmm TRS-80.....
what's a Sinclair?
-----Original Message-----
Patrice J
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 3:02 PM
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A TRS-80?
Why not a Sinclair?
: )
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> Suprisingly, I just logged on and it took only a second. Amazing!! They
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> Is anyone else having problems with Metalink today?
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