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I well remember the Sinclair executive - in my last year at school, there was a shop soiled example being sold for £70 - and in those days, £70 was a small fortune.I always thought of Sir Clive as a typical English eccentric - a great visionary, but not the worlds best businessman - still, I suppose he is still doing well enough for himself, even if he will never be in the same league as the likes of Bill Gates.
My first home computer was a zx80....1kb of memory ....quality !!..
YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY !!Do ewe remember Jet Set Willy ?.....quality !!I also remember th funky rubber keys of the Spectrum 48.......then I enjoyed the 128 for a while.....and cripes....I think I went for Amstrad CPC 464...with it's tape drive !!oh....those were the days !!!!!!!....LOL.........ewe know you're getting old when you start to reminisce !!THANKS for the website Paul..........YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY !!!!
I was gutted when the schools introduced the bbc computers, and always thought they should have had speccys if for nothing else that they were british.
Neil,do you have a mobile phone with the symbian operating system?
The "Microsoft Disk Operating System" or MS-DOS was based on QDOS, the "Quick and Dirty Operating System" written by Tim Paterson of Seattle Computer Products, for their prototype Intel 8086 based computer.QDOS was based on Gary Kildall's CP/M, Paterson had bought a CP/M manual and used it as the basis to write his operating system in six weeks, QDOS was different enough from CP/M to be considered legal.Microsoft bought the rights to QDOS for $50,000, keeping the IBM deal a secret from Seattle Computer Products.Gates then talked IBM into letting Microsoft retain the rights, to market MS DOS separate from the IBM PC project, Gates proceeded to make a fortune from the licensing of MS-DOS.In 1981, Tim Paterson quit Seattle Computer Products and found employment at Microsoft.
Question: Did YOU buy one?Nuf said.
I lived in Sir Clive Sinclair's old house in Cambridge for a few years...
Quote from: another_someone on 18/02/2007 02:29:17I well remember the Sinclair executive - in my last year at school, there was a shop soiled example being sold for £70 - and in those days, £70 was a small fortune.I always thought of Sir Clive as a typical English eccentric - a great visionary, but not the worlds best businessman - still, I suppose he is still doing well enough for himself, even if he will never be in the same league as the likes of Bill Gates.I used to own one of the lcd wrist wathces, they illuminated red light and the battery lasted days...my be my memory is wrong here...it seemed like days. You are right about him looking and acting like the stereotypical eccentric.my other favourites eccentrics were magnus pike and the guy who used to host the great egg race, what was his name?...wolk or heinz?