23 May
2020
23 May
'20
5:09 p.m.
Peter said
Uncle Clive had been making dubiously-cheap
electronics using equal measures of
ingenious design and cutting one corner too many since the 1970s, so he was
well-placed to clean up in the more tight-fisted end of the UK computer market.
He'd been doing that since the 1960's with classy-looking miniature amplifiers
and
impossibly small pocket radios. I remember as a young kid drooling over the Sinclair
Micro-6 advertised in the late 60s UK 'Practical Electronics' magazines my dad
collected.
I had absolutely no idea how much "59/6" was, in Australian dollars, but I was
sure it
was way more than all the pocket money savings I had. And how would I go about ordering
something from the other side of the world, even if I could afford it.
Steve.