An American perspective on the late great Sir Clive Sinclair, from Fast Company

On Mon, 27 Sept 2021 at 22:49, Fred Cisin via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote: Strongly agreed. The TI-99/4A wasn't a great computer, with foolish design compromises, but it was driven out of the market by unfair pricing. The Amiga was a superior machine in almost every way to the Atari ST, and should have been a bit more expensive -- I'm sure it was to produce. But no, another price war. And so on. Yup. But that was probably me. A computer that sold for $1000 Yup. A particular habit of Apple, to be fair, but not unique to them. Also, the US cost of living is substantially cheaper -- e.g. gasoline. Today the average US price is ?0.80 per litre. EU average is about c?1.40 per litre. Source: https://www.globalpetrolprices.com/USA/gasoline_prices/ https://www.tolls.eu/fuel-prices Which model? They were pretty rare here -- I don't think I ever saw a single one anywhere outside Tandy store display units. https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/5791/was-the-trs-80-mode… Model I, 4K Level I: ?385.25 Model I, 16K Level II: ?546.25 -- Liam Proven ? Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lproven at cix.co.uk ? gMail/gTalk/FB: lproven at gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ? Skype: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 ? ?R (+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal): +420 702-829-053