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Re: Are you alone tonight?--



In article <76cb79$9di@login.freenet.columbus.oh.us>,
  dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff) wrote:
> Milo (ejp07@nospam.csufresno.edu) wrote:
> : Uh ... um ... I have a Timex / Sinclair!!
> : Does that make me a geek?
>
> No.  But if you have a Sinclair ZX-81...THAT would make you a geek.  8-)

Oh, goody!! <polishes his geek pin>

> (For the non-geeks:  The Timex-Sinclair 1000 *IS* a Sinclair ZX-81, but
> the ZX-81 was around longer.  And if you're REALLY a geek, you have the
> Sinclair ZX-80, which is identical to the ZX-81, except that it came in
> kit form!

They still sell the kit form, somewhere in NY. A friend of mine gave me one;
it's still waiting for a better case, power supply, and keyboard. Like I
said, there isn't much you can do with a stock Sinclair. (Well, the ZX-81, at
least.)




Ralph Glatt

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