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Re: Are you alone tonight?--
Doorstop? I have two Osborne 1s - THEY make much better doorstops! Gotta
be the heaviest portables ever made - even if they were the first!
Brian Denley
Jason wrote in message ...
>Cliff Lawson:
>> Ha! Kids of today eh? Don't know what they missed! The serial number
>> of my ZX80 kit which I ordered the day the advert first appeared in
>> Personal Computer World was number 000359 - wonder if anyone got an
>> earlier model?
>
>The only time I saw a ZX80, it was being used as a doorstop. Really.
>And sometimes we'd take the top off and play frisbee with it. =-)
>
>> Cliff Lawson (who went on to design computers for Amstrad).
>
>*That* says something. Fortunately, I'm very polite and won't say
>what... =-)
>
>> PS I lent my ZX80 to Microsoft when they were setting up a museum of
>> computer history and the bastards never gave it back!! (Obviously they
>> must have really wanted it for disection to learn about how "real"
>> computers work!)
>
>Don't be *silly* Cliff, Microsoft wouldn't know a real computer if it
>*bit* 'em!
>--
>Jason =-)
>
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