> -----Original Message-----
> From: cctalk-bounces_at_classiccmp.org
> [mailto:cctalk-bounces_at_classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Tony Duell
> Sent: 11 November 2003 21:43
> To: cctalk_at_classiccmp.org
> Subject: Re: more talking to the press.
>
> What is it with the press and Sinclair? Can't they pick some other
> manufacturer for once -- you know, one that actually designed a decent
> computer....
Like I said - marketing. Plus I bet that you ask most brits of our age to
name a popular home computer and they'll say Sinclair-something. They don't
care it wasn't a decent machine, they care that it did what they wanted it
to, ie play games they could copy from their mates.
> Don't forget to mention the MK14 (the Sinclair that nobody seems to
> remember)....
Which legend has it wasn't really a Sinclair machine, even though it was
supposed to be Chris Curry of Acorn fame that got the project up and
running. Of course this could be bitchiness by people surrounding it, but
I've heard all sorts culminating in that the MK14 wasn't a Sinclair
Radionics machine but was designed by someone at Uni who's logon to the
timeshare system was MK-14.
I'm still trying to get more info out of people who were there at the time,
but for most of them it seems that it wasn't a happy time so they won't talk
about it or are legally bound not to, even after all these years :-/
More on this as it happens!
cheers
--
adrian/witchy
www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - the online computer museum
www.snakebiteandblack.co.uk - ex-monthly gothic shenanigans :o(
Received on Tue Nov 11 2003 - 17:09:40 GMT