In article <548573327@f18.n116.z1.fidonet.org>, Robert Wolfe   
    wrote:   
   > >>   
   > >> The Spectrum has much better graphics and better games!   
   >   
   >  YN> Yep, definitely ... in Complete Opposite World.  :-\   
   >   
   >  YN> In the real world, all Sinclair's boxes were simply useless   
   >  YN> little toys. Meanwhile Commodore and Apple sold real computers.   
   >   
   > ...and they were on the market for much longer, too, with their 8-bit   
   > machines as far as I cant remember.  Plus, you never saw a C64 or Apple ][   
   > being sold at stores like FRED's :)   
      
   A friend of mine had the crappy Sinclair toys (a ZX81 and then a   
   Spectrum) while I had real computers (VIC20 and C64).   
      
   Sinclair's toys were stupidly small, had disgusting "keyboards", and   
   were ridiculously silly to "program" - you *had* to use the silly   
   keycodes press to write your BASIC program, which in one case meant   
   pushing three keys to get something like the "If" statement.  :-\   
      
   Sinclair only sold so many because they were cheap ... cheap and nasty.   
      
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