From: tlake@twcny.rr.com   
      
   "Michael Black"  wrote in message   
   news:Pine.LNX.4.64.0907122329421.9688@darkstar.example.net...   
   > On Sat, 11 Jul 2009, N Morrison wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Jul 10, 6:40 pm, "Ferris Buehler"  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Tandy should never have sold it. It was a piece of junk.   
   >>   
   >> No, it was an OK computer. Just a bad marketing idea. Seeing what you   
   >> can do with something that small and simple tests your skills.   
   >>   
   > Come on.  30 years ago, this past May, I got my first computer, a KIM-1   
   > with all of 1k of RAM, a cassette interface, and some 7-segment readouts   
   > and a calculator style keyboard.  That tested my skills quite well.   
      
   A very popular computer in 1983 (when the C64 was king) was the   
   Timex/Sinclair 1000.  It was B/W only, came with 2K RAM and had   
   an add-on RAM pack to bring it up to 16K.  That's the machine the   
   MC-10 was going against, not the biggies.   
      
   Tom Lake   
      
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