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Re: Poll : Which classic computer of the late 70s/early 80s is the best?

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Oh yes, you really are making my point here. I deliberately  went UK as the 
originator went US Ataris, though nice machines were far overpriced over 
here until it was too late. Yes, the silly stepped flat pad keyboard on the 
early Ataris was rubbish. The 800XL I had with disc, printer interface etc, 
was a great little machiine as I got it cheap end of line.
 The Spectrum, the later models were actually quite good.  I actually used 
one to do online editing work in the 80s. The snag was the edge connector, 
if only it had had a proper plug it would have been respected more.

Over here of course the Dragon was quite popular, and as far as I'm aware it 
was basically a slightly redesigned Tandy color computer.


There were lots of oddballs though.
Oric, Lynx, Enterprise, Sord, Einstein, etc.

Not to mention Memotech.

Brian

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"Clocky" <notgonn@happen.com> wrote in message 
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> "Brian Gaff" <Briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message 
> news:iu4fq5$f6e$1@dont-email.me...
>> The problem is best for what? That was the point in my view. At the time, 
>> if you were educating you could not go wrong with the BBC, but if you 
>> were on a budget and needed it to be a jack of all trades, arguably the 
>> Spectrum was the one.
>
> In the UK market where British was always best (even when it clearly 
> wasn't) and people had no money (or were just too tight), but just about 
> anywhere else those options were pretty poor IMO.
>
> The ZX was cheap and cheerful but it was useless as a proper home computer 
> due to it's awful keyboard and overall size. The BBC might have had a lot 
> of educational titles and the computer of choice for that reason in the 
> UK, but elsewhere in the world it didn't make that much of an impact.
>
> We had Microbees in high school, and they seemed to be a decent solution 
> for education but realistically they could have been replaced with C64's 
> and it's massive range of educational titles and programming languages 
> (including BASIC extensions) would have been a far better solution. The 
> Atari 8 bitters had a lot going for them too IMO, except for the ones with 
> the shithouse keyboards.
> 

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