11 Nov
2003
11 Nov
'03
6:18 a.m.
> > Brilliant! Just as the previous 'talking
to the press' thread
> > has vanished
> > from my classiccmp folder after I thought 'I won't need that' one
of the
> > broadsheets want to talk to me about collecting and collectables!
> > Can anyone give me a precis of the previous thread before I go
> > search the archives?
> Sure : Don't do it. The reporters only misquote or misinterpret what you
> say, and you end up looking a right idiot (as I did in the Popular
> Science article :-().
Bummer. At least with Sinclair stuff it's pretty
cut and dried as far as
historians are concerned. I've just got to avoid giving them the chance to
'big up' something that has no reason to be, eg anything above the rubber
key 48k spectrum.
Makes me wonder whether I should mention that the ZX80
should never have
existed in that form and that the ZX81 was what the ZX80 should've been :)
When going for Sinclair and journalists, I always bring up the Z88
at some point. Old guys may remember them (or similar machines),
while younger often think it's a brand new invention, the newest
thing since laptops.
Gruss
H.
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