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Simon Brooke wrote:
> in message <[email protected]>, Jon Senior
> ('jon@restlesslemon_DOT_co_DOT_uk.remove') wrote:
>
>
>>In article <mKbHc.12528$I%[email protected]>,
>>[email protected] says...
>>
>>>Cynical ex-owner of
>>>
>>>Sinclair Oxford 300 calculator
>>>ZX81 - needed bag of frozen peas to stop it over heating. Suffered
>>>RamPack wobble
>>>Sinclair Spectrum 48k (got through four of those before one worked
>>>properly) Sinclair QL (oh remind me - microdrives!) Winners of the
>>>world' cheapest keyboard membrain award
>>
>>A QL. I've got one of those in my flat... keyboard membrane died...
>>the tracks cracked where the ribbon bends to join to the board.
>
>
> I have in my collection several Sinclair calculators, a ZX80, a ZX81, a
> QL, a Z88, and the original prototype of the OPD. Surprisingly, all of
> them still work. I don't have a Spectrum, however.
>
Oh,no!
Not the "One Per Desk" - as in it was (allegedly) cheap enough that a
whole office didn't have to share a single computer. I liked the Z88 -
but not enough to buy one. You don't have a "Black Watch"?
Jules
> in message <[email protected]>, Jon Senior
> ('jon@restlesslemon_DOT_co_DOT_uk.remove') wrote:
>
>
>>In article <mKbHc.12528$I%[email protected]>,
>>[email protected] says...
>>
>>>Cynical ex-owner of
>>>
>>>Sinclair Oxford 300 calculator
>>>ZX81 - needed bag of frozen peas to stop it over heating. Suffered
>>>RamPack wobble
>>>Sinclair Spectrum 48k (got through four of those before one worked
>>>properly) Sinclair QL (oh remind me - microdrives!) Winners of the
>>>world' cheapest keyboard membrain award
>>
>>A QL. I've got one of those in my flat... keyboard membrane died...
>>the tracks cracked where the ribbon bends to join to the board.
>
>
> I have in my collection several Sinclair calculators, a ZX80, a ZX81, a
> QL, a Z88, and the original prototype of the OPD. Surprisingly, all of
> them still work. I don't have a Spectrum, however.
>
Oh,no!
Not the "One Per Desk" - as in it was (allegedly) cheap enough that a
whole office didn't have to share a single computer. I liked the Z88 -
but not enough to buy one. You don't have a "Black Watch"?
Jules