An American perspective on the late great Sir Clive Sinclair, from Fast Company

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On Wed, 29 Sep 2021, John Many Jars via cctalk wrote:

> I had a TI 99/4 when I was a kid.  It was my first computer (although I
> used my friend's Apple ][ much more).
>
> All I can say is, what a piece of garbage.  It was horrible in every way,
> and it overheated if you left it on too long.  SLOWEST BASIC EVER!
>

The TI 99/4A is what you get when the MBAs on the design team outnumber 
the engineers by ten to one.

g.

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