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Re: Sir Clive Marles Sinclair

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  To: D.J.
-=> D.J. wrote to alt.folklore.computers <=-

 D.> Yes, I saw him mentioned on BBC America.

 D.> I bought the Sinclair ZX-81, and later the 16kilobyte ram pack. I used
 D.> it for months.

You wouldn't get carpal tunnel, you'd get calluses on the tips of your 
fingers from that membrane keyboard. I had to use gaffa tape to try and keep 
the contacts on the memory expansion connected, otherwise 3/4 of the way 
into typing a program into it, you'd bump the case and it'd freeze or 
reboot.

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Sir Clive Marles Sinclair (30 July 1940 – 16 September 2021) Vir Campestris <vir.campestris@invalid.invalid> - 2021-09-16 21:36 +0100
  Re: Sir Clive Marles Sinclair (30 July 1940 – 16 September 2021) Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2021-09-16 17:28 -0400
  Re: Sir Clive Marles Sinclair (30 July 1940 – 16 September 2021) Bob Eager <news0009@eager.cx> - 2021-09-16 22:43 +0000
    Re: Sir Clive Marles Sinclair (30 July 1940 – 16 September 2021) Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2021-09-17 07:32 +0100
      Re: Sir Clive Marles Sinclair (30 July 1940 – 16 September 2021) "John" <John@nospam.please> - 2021-09-17 12:31 +0100
        Re: Sir Clive Marles Sinclair (30 July 1940 – 16 September 2021) Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2021-09-17 13:29 +0100
        Re: Sir Clive Marles Sinclair (30 July 1940 – 16 September 2021) maus <maus@dmaus.org> - 2021-09-17 18:13 +0000
    Re: Sir Clive Marles Sinclair (30 July 1940 – 16 September 2021) maus <maus@dmaus.org> - 2021-09-17 09:31 +0000
      Re: Sir Clive Marles Sinclair (30 July 1940 – 16 September 2021) Andy Leighton <andyl@azaal.plus.com> - 2021-09-17 10:13 -0500
  Re: Sir Clive Marles Sinclair D.J. <chucktheouch@gmail.com> - 2021-09-17 09:09 -0500
    Re: Sir Clive Marles Sinclair "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2021-09-17 17:20 +0100
    Re: Sir Clive Marles Sinclair "Kurt Weiske" <kurt.weiske@realitycheckbbs.org.remove-v0l-this> - 2021-09-18 08:15 -0700

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