ZX80 - was: SN76477N

Tony Duell wrote: I suppose the name Sinclair is closely tied to the early days of the home computer boom, and at least in the UK people will think of his products before the likes of Commodore or Apple. Plus as Sridhar said, one of his machines was often the first that many of us owned (it was in my case, which was why I hung onto my Sinclair collection for a long time after I really needed the space it took up :) Plus Sinclair always had that whacky mad scientist air about him which makes his stuff appealing. I suppose the thing about Sinclair stuff is that it was cheap - but it was obviously cheap, so you knew pretty much what you were getting. Compare to machines with similar capabilities of the time and quite often they weren't really much better in terms of what users wanted - but the packaging was a lot slicker and hence the price was a lot higher... cheers Jules