Demography? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

4 Mar 1998

Re: Sorcerers down Under.

There was a strong user group base down here in the late 70s and early 80s.
I remember having a real hard time deciding between a Sorcerer and an Atari
800.  I eventually chose the Atari, with no regrets.  But, I seem to
remember the Sorcerer as being fairly common.

Not easy to find now, but a lot of us down under collectors seem to have one
or two (or three, but I won't tease too much).

Cheers
A

-----Original Message-----
From: Sam Ismail &lt;dastar(a)wco.com&gt;
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
&lt;classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu&gt;
Date: Wednesday, March 04, 1998 7:17 PM
Subject: Re: Demography?

...
 On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Lawrence Wilkinson wrote:

  I'm a fairly recent arrival to this list. 
I'm 34, a New Zealander, and
 I've lived in the UK for almost 4 years. <...>

 I started doing various programming work on machines like TRS80 &
 clones, Sorcerer, including quite a few BIOSes for CP/M, including one          
^^^^^^^^
It seems that a lot of you blokes down under have Sorcerers.  Were they
marketed a lot more "down there" than they were in the US?  They are not
very common over here.

Sam                                        Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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