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Re: The BBC Micro is crap

From Calum <com.gmail@nospam.scottishwildcat>
Newsgroups comp.sys.sinclair
Subject Re: The BBC Micro is crap
Date 2019-11-18 19:34 +0000
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On 18/11/2019 16:43, deKay wrote:

> There's also a lot of rebuking Uncle Clive's fake news in the various letter
> and news pages. One thing I saw that was interesting, is that Sinclair offered
> schools a free ZX Printer for every Spectrum schools bought, and Acorn offered
> "free Econet" for the BBC. The latter was seen as "far more likely to be
> useful in the future" - yeah, but no but.

Well, to be fair, I learned a lot more about networking from Econet than 
I did about printers from the ZX Printer.

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The BBC Micro is crap deKay <andyk@lofi-gaming.org.uk> - 2019-11-18 16:43 +0000
  Re: The BBC Micro is crap Calum <com.gmail@nospam.scottishwildcat> - 2019-11-18 19:34 +0000
  Re: The BBC Micro is crap Guesser <alistair@zxnet.co.uk> - 2019-11-18 19:56 +0000
    Re: The BBC Micro is crap deKay <andyk@lofi-gaming.org.uk> - 2019-11-19 11:31 +0000
      Re: The BBC Micro is crap Steve Drain <steve@kappa.me.uk> - 2019-11-20 10:17 +0000
        Re: The BBC Micro is crap deKay <andyk@lofi-gaming.org.uk> - 2019-11-20 14:05 +0000
          Re: The BBC Micro is crap Duncan Snowden <duncan_s@talktalk.net> - 2019-11-20 15:15 +0000
            Re: The BBC Micro is crap "Chris" <chris.usenet@mail-filter.com> - 2019-12-30 00:30 +0000
              Re: The BBC Micro is crap Lee Osborne <losborne74@gmail.com> - 2020-01-16 04:04 -0800

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