From: bjjlyates@NOSPAMbellsouth.net   
      
   On 7/13/09 6:51 PM, in article h3gdr3$9q9$1@news.albasani.net, "Tom Lake"   
    wrote:   
      
   >   
   > "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.   
      
   Yep. TI also targeted the TS1000 with the TI-99/2. But the bottom fell out   
   with the TI/CBM price wars between the 99/4A and VIC-20... Hard to sell a   
   TS/1000 or look-alike when you could get a VIC or TI-99 for the same price   
   or a C64 for $200-$300.   
      
   TI's fault... idiots.   
      
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