> > > Brilliant! Just as the previous 'talking to the press' thread
> > > has vanished
> > > from my classiccmp folder after I thought 'I won't need that' one of the
> > > broadsheets want to talk to me about collecting and collectables!
> > > Can anyone give me a precis of the previous thread before I go
> > > search the archives?
> > Sure : Don't do it. The reporters only misquote or misinterpret what you
> > say, and you end up looking a right idiot (as I did in the Popular
> > Science article :-().
> Bummer. At least with Sinclair stuff it's pretty cut and dried as far as
> historians are concerned. I've just got to avoid giving them the chance to
> 'big up' something that has no reason to be, eg anything above the rubber
> key 48k spectrum.
> Makes me wonder whether I should mention that the ZX80 should never have
> existed in that form and that the ZX81 was what the ZX80 should've been :)
When going for Sinclair and journalists, I always bring up the Z88
at some point. Old guys may remember them (or similar machines),
while younger often think it's a brand new invention, the newest
thing since laptops.
Gruss
H.
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