RE: OT : Sinclair was RE: Metalink Again

I got a Commodore VIC20. Icky. You could only program in BASIC but you could store stuff on a regular audio cassette tape. You didn't need a monitor because you hooked it up to your TV... however you could probably learn more about computer science by just watching TV. ;-)

A year later I went to work for Fujitsu Microelectronics. They somehow thought they could set the standard in this fledgling PC industry. They first started with a Z80 chip and they had a pretty good machine running CPM with a C compiler. (Now CPM was an O/S!) I used that PC to do my homework for my Intro to C Programming night class at the community college. Soon after that came the IBM PC and Fujitsu actually had an early PC clone that ran MS-DOS. Trouble was it wasn't a "compatible" MS-DOS so you couldn't run Lotus 123. But SuperCalc worked OK. Go figure. At the same time one of their largest customers was a small startup company to which they sold gobs of memory chips. It was a huge financial risk but this small startup kept paying on time so they kept shipping them more memory. What was the name of that risky small startup? Oh yeah, it was a weird name... "Compaq." The rest is history.

And now you know "the rest of the story." Steve Orr

-----Original Message-----
Kenneth R
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 1:46 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

I had a Spectrum 48K and the rest of the story is about the same for me. Same downward spiral and all...

-----Original Message-----
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 4:16 PM
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Sinclair was a brand of personal computers that came out in the UK about 20 years ago,
If memory serves , they started of with the ZX 81 which had a whole 1K of memory.

Their next offering was the Spectrum 16K followed by the 48K. with rubber keys and programmable in basic.
I remember back in the early 80's I got one for my 14th birthday and that set me on the downward spiral to
where I am now :-) as a dba

they subsequently went bust, and I still have that Spectrum 48K after nearly 20 years.
You can get emulaters for it on the PC.

Any more spectrum owners out there that want to admit to it ? Brian

"Kevin Kostyszyn" <kevin_at_dulcian.com>@fatcity.com on 04/04/2001 02:36:02 PM

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MMMMMMmmmmmmm TRS-80.....
what's a Sinclair?

-----Original Message-----
Patrice J
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 3:02 PM
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A TRS-80? Why not a Sinclair?

: )

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Kostyszyn [SMTP:kevin_at_dulcian.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 1:41 PM
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> Suprisingly, I just logged on and it took only a second. Amazing!! They
> must have gotten that other Tandy computer running again.
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> Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 11:35 AM
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> Is anyone else having problems with Metalink today?
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> Todd Carlson
> Oracle 8i Certified DBA
> Bunge Corporation
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