Sam Ismail wrote:
> Sure Enrico. Please do a write-up for the Spectrum. Also if you could,
> please send a Sinclair Spectrum to:
>
> Vintage Computer Festival
> 4275-29 Rosewood Drive #161
> Pleasanton, California 94588
>
> And I will be most happy to add it to the exhibition. They're pretty
> hard to find over here in the sates.
OK, could do BUT who is going to take the responsability to send it back
to me?
>
> Also, if you can tell me where you got your facts from regarding the
> Spectrum being the most sold and popular computer in the world I would
> appreciate that as well.
On many BRITISH magazines I have (Sinclair User, Personal Computer News,
Yours Sinclair, Your Spectrum etc.) it is reported that the Spectrum in
its hayday had more than 5,000,000 users. While this could be an opinion
(but it can't be far from the thruth) I don't think that you in the
States realize what the Spectrum meant to million of Europeans and far
east citizens. In the Russia alone there must be at least 12 different
Spectrum clones (they did not care much about copyright). They were also
made in Portugal, Spain, Brasil, Hong Kong and elsewhere.
The Spectrum is definetely the computer for which have been published
the greatest number of programs (mainly games). I alone have about
12,000 (yes: twelve thousands) different ones and I have not got them
all! Beat that if you can. I don't think that the Apple II, with all its
good points (and all the admiration I have for it), ever came near that.
Ciao
enrico
>
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