On 20/8/06 14:51, "Tim Shoppa" <shoppa_classiccmp at trailing-edge.com>
wrote:
I did a google search and looked on Wikipedia but some
of the details
there do NOT match my memory. They say there were only 50,000 ZX80's sold
I have it down as 'around 70,000' though that's by no means official.
and this seems to be a ridiculously low number for a
mass-market
machine sold through many different channels. They say that the Sinclair
brand was only in the UK and this does not match my experience of having
bought one in the US (or the
All machines were mail order weren't they? Yes there were adverts in a lot
of magazines of the day, but all returned to Sinclair. There was a brief
flirtation with the US and even a clone called the MicroAce.
Aha! Google is my friend:
http://www.chaotic.fsnet.co.uk/zx80/
That's not where I got my numbers from, but the author must read the same
sources I did :)
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