1 Feb
2024
1 Feb
'24
7:34 p.m.
On Thu, Feb 1, 2024 at 10:26 AM Liam Proven via cctalk <
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
On Wed, 31 Jan 2024 at 19:05, Sellam Abraham via
cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
I agree, based on the very point you are making: the impact, influence and
reach of the ZX Spectrum was by far greater than that of the TRS-80.
Sellam
Probably because Americans in Futtbuck, Idaho
never heard of any British
computers but Brits certainly knew about American computers, eh wot?
Oh, yes, naturally!
It is something of a national characteristic, though.
I had someone very seriously questioning me, over on Fesse Bouc, if I
was serious when I said that the ZX Spectrum could remotely be
considered a more significant machine than (one model of) TRS-80, and
he was incredulous when I absolutely maintained the point.
Only after the fall of Communism did we Sinclair fans discover that
there was an entire international market in clones and compatibles of
the little Spectrum.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ZX_Spectrum_clones
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