13 Apr
2012
13 Apr
'12
3:08 a.m.
On 04/12/2012 10:45 PM, Jason T wrote:
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 9:38 PM, David Riley
<fraveydank at gmail.com> wrote:
I never saw a single one in those days. As close as anybody got was
two friends that had Timex-Sinclair 1000s (I had one as well, still have
it) and another friend who had a 2068.
I have STILL never seen a Spectrum in person. I'd really love to play
with one.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
The way I read it was that the Spectrum
didn't make much headway in
the US, so releases were fairly limited. Here, the "for the masses"
machine was the C64, probably owing to the fact that Commodore was an
American company.
Correct reading :) I know the Spectrum line was huge but, afaik
(someone will surely correct me,) it wasn't even marketed in the US.
So a Spectrum tape packaged with a record would be somewhat
bewildering.
Then again, all the cool kids sought out the import singles, so maybe
a few made it over here!