18 Jun
2009
18 Jun
'09
4:26 p.m.
bfranchuk wrote:
My gripe with British Computers of that era, No floppy
drive of any kind.
Sure, if British=Sinclair.
But if British=Acorn or British=Dragon Data (wow) or British=Amstrad
or British=Nascom or British=... well you get the picture.
But who would even want to complain about the cheap and cheerful Speccy?
At only 175ukp in 1982 it was cheaper than a modern netbook and single-
handedly put computers into the sticky, but impoverished hands of around 2%
of Brits. You gotta give'em a bit of Kudos ;-) !
Speaking of QDOS - Sinclair's uber-cheap 68008 QL also fell into Linus
Torvolds young paws; setting him on the road to fame and fortune -
kinda handy that :-) !
-cheers from julz @P