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From: Jecel Assumpcao Jr via cctech
Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2021 3:21 PM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: An American perspective on the late great Sir Clive Sinclair,
from Fast Company
I had a choice between the MC-10 and the Timex 2068 i
Yeechang Lee wrote on Tue, 28 Sep 2021 10:36:15 -0700
> The US industry thought that the $99 price point needed to be reached, in
> part because of the Timex/Sinclair 1000's example; besides the 99/2 and
> Commodore 16, the TRS-80 MC-10 is another example of the ultra low-cost
> "Sinclair fighter".
I found files for my favorite DOS editor on an archive from my OS/2
machine, which replaced my DOS machine in about 1990.
The editor was ETOOL, from Amerisoft.
If anybody wants the files, I'm happy to send them.
-rw-r--r-- 1 vsnyder staff 245248 Mar 8 1988 e/dos/etool.exe
-rw-r--r-- 1 vsnyder
On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 01:14:54PM -0700, Yeechang Lee via cctech wrote:
> Liam Proven says:
[...]
>> If you were going to spend as much as a new car on an early home
>> computer,
> If you're going to exaggerate for effect, don't exaggerate so much that
> your meaning is lost.
I went and looked up
On Mon, 27 Sept 2021 at 22:14, Yeechang Lee via cctech
wrote:
>
> This was true in more wealthy countries outside the US, too. Sinclair never
> got anywhere in Germany compared to Commodore, for example.
This may be true; I work for a German company but I've never lived
there. I know Amstrad-aff
Jecel Assumpcao Jr says:
> While the American public were very ignorant of Sinclair's
> achievements, the US home computer makers were very worried about
> them. In 1983 both Commodore and Texas Instruments were working on
> their "ZX81 killers".
The US industry thought that the $99 price point ne
