Re: Apple II plus clone?

[Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com>]

Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:
> In article <k76v07$c9k$1@speranza.aioe.org>, Alex Freed
> <alex_news@alexfreed.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> In England you mainly had the rubbish from Sinclair (which also made it to
>>>>> America under the Timex name I think) - ZX80, ZX81, and Spectrum.
>> 
>> My understanding is that while ZX80 was clearly a more of a toy rather 
>> than a computer the claim to fame was the price. I think it was the 
>> first under $100 computer. Or was it under 100 pounds?  From the 
>> technical point of view the design was quite innovative using the 
>> absolute minimum of hardware to do the job.
> 
> Probably the size too - it wasn't much bigger than a couple of today's
> mobile phones placed next to each other.
> 
> BUT it looked like rubbish, felt like rubbish, worked like rubbish ... and
> was rubbish. As the old saying goes: "You get what you pay for". :-)

Hear, hear!

-michael - NadaNet 3.1 and AppleCrate II: http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon