bfranchuk wrote: 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