Your Name wrote on 13. January 2016:   
   >   
   > A friend of mine had the crappy Sinclair toys (a ZX81 and then a   
   > Spectrum) while I had real computers (VIC20 and C64).   
      
   You got to love the attribute clashing [1] ("bleeding" or how you call   
   it). Couldn't get this on a Commodore, even if wanted to pay for it. ;-)   
      
   > 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.  :-\   
      
   Wasn't there a certain key to press that it would print the key you   
   actually type on the screen?   
      
   > Sinclair only sold so many because they were cheap ... cheap and nasty.   
      
   My guess too.   
      
   [1] Although https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attribute_clash mentions the   
       Commodore 64 also had the problem I cannot remember having seen this.   
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