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From: BruceMcF on 20 Apr 2008 15:59
On Apr 20, 11:57 am, Pasi Ojala <alb...(a)hopeatilhi.cs.tut.fi> wrote:
> No, they didn't. They asked "What was your first home PC?"

> >http://hardware.silicon.com/desktops/0,39024645,39188678,00.htm?r=1
> > It was a given really.

> Asking Brits about their first home computer, yes, that result
> was expected.

It would be interesting to ask the follow-up question, "if you first
home PC was the Spectrum, would you agree that your first home PC was
the King of the Home Computers".

Because there would be a sound basis for a misleading headline. As it
stands, its just laughable.
From: Klompmeester on 20 Apr 2008 17:48

"Geoff Wearmouth" <gwearmouth(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
news:7ad512ac-3aaf-4743-a106-0bf763248cd1(a)t54g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
> We asked over 900 people "Which is the king of computers?"
>
> http://hardware.silicon.com/desktops/0,39024645,39188678,00.htm?r=1
>
> It was a given really.
>

Slap a "made in the UK" sticker on anything and the brits will proclaim it
to be the best.

It never is, but that doesn't matter - if it feeds the inherent snobbery
they will want to believe it.





From: BruceMcF on 20 Apr 2008 18:29
On Apr 20, 12:28 pm, Geoff Wearmouth <gwearmo...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Flamewar? I was merely disseminating topical information. :-)

Sales of computers to first time computer buyers in the UK in the
1980's is topical information?

From: OwenBot on 20 Apr 2008 18:30
On Apr 20, 5:28 pm, Geoff Wearmouth <gwearmo...(a)gmail.com> wrote:

> Talking of the Guiness Book of Records, the British Broadcasting
> Corporation reports that in Wales this weekend there has been the
> biggest assembly of Sir Clive Sinclair's C5 electric tricycle

Rats. I was in Wales this weekend. I could have gone!
From: OwenBot on 20 Apr 2008 18:41
On Apr 20, 10:48 pm, "Klompmeester" <whowh...(a)andwhy.com> wrote:

> Slap a "made in the UK" sticker on anything and the brits will proclaim it
> to be the best.

I've never met anyone in the UK that thought British stuff was the
best. Adequate is usually the description. We buy it out of a
misplaced sense of loyalty and national pride in the same way that the
French buy French cars and the Germans buy German pop music. The
Americans, I notice, don't buy American anymore.
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