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   Dave Drum to Carlos Navarro   
   R.I.P.   
   19 Sep 21 10:12:14   
   
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   -=> Carlos Navarro wrote to Dave Drum <=-   
      
    DD> I get the feeling I may be one of the few who never owned a Sinclair   
    DD> product .... not even a calculator.   
      
    CN> I guess it depends on where you lived and your circumstances...   
      
    CN> Back then I would have liked to have a Vic-20 with its colours, sound   
    CN> and great keyboard, but Commodore computers were expensive over here   
    CN> (I was a teenager with a limited budget).   
      
   When the Vic-20 appeared I was banging away at a TRS-80 Model 1. The    
   Sinclair and the Commode Door were priced similarly here. The expensive   
   toy was Apple which was overpriced by a factor of 10. That's still true   
   today.  Bv(=   
      
   ... MS-DOS=Christianity; Mac=Bhuddism; Amiga=Pagan sex magick   
      
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