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From: Chris Young on 22 Apr 2008 13:54 On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:37:01 +0100 da kidz on comp.sys.sinclair were rappin' to MC Lister: > On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:54:12 +0100, Duncan Snowden > <dss(a)ukonline.co.uk> wrote: > > >Geoff Wearmouth wrote: > > > >> Flamewar? I was merely disseminating topical information. :-) > >> > >> 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 > >> > >> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_east/7354449.stm > >> > >> It does give one a warm feeling. > > > >In the small of the back, roughly where the motor is? Could be nasty. > > > Has one ever been driven from Land's End to John O'Groats? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/oxfordshire/4169051.stm I don't know whether he managed it - IIRC he has posted in c.s.s. in the past. Chris -- +-------------------------------------------+ | Unsatisfactory Software - "because it is" | | http://www.unsatisfactorysoftware.co.uk | | Your Sinclair: A Celebration | +- http://www.yoursinclair.co.uk -----------+ DISCLAIMER: I may be making all this stuff up again.
From: Chris Young on 22 Apr 2008 13:56 On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 03:58:41 -0400 da kidz on comp.sys.sinclair were rappin' to MC Brian Ketterling: > > The real all-time top acts over here are Die Toten Hosen... > > I haven't heard of them (complacent American that I am), but I like the name > :D . They even made Guitar Hero 3, so they must be good. I guess the C64 version (Shredz64 or whatever it's called) didn't feature that track. Chris -- +-------------------------------------------+ | Unsatisfactory Software - "because it is" | | http://www.unsatisfactorysoftware.co.uk | | Your Sinclair: A Celebration | +- http://www.yoursinclair.co.uk -----------+ DISCLAIMER: I may be making all this stuff up again.
From: Lister on 22 Apr 2008 16:36 On 22 Apr 2008 18:54:09 +0100, "Chris Young" <chris.usenet(a)mail-filter.com> wrote: >On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:37:01 +0100 da kidz on comp.sys.sinclair were rappin' >to MC Lister: > >> On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:54:12 +0100, Duncan Snowden >> <dss(a)ukonline.co.uk> wrote: >> >> >Geoff Wearmouth wrote: >> > >> >> Flamewar? I was merely disseminating topical information. :-) >> >> >> >> 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 >> >> >> >> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_east/7354449.stm >> >> >> >> It does give one a warm feeling. >> > >> >In the small of the back, roughly where the motor is? Could be nasty. >> >> >> Has one ever been driven from Land's End to John O'Groats? > >http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/oxfordshire/4169051.stm > >I don't know whether he managed it - IIRC he has posted in c.s.s. in >the past. > >Chris Bah, forgot about that If he hasn't managed it, though, I'll do it :)
From: Ian McCall on 22 Apr 2008 19:36 On 2008-04-20 23:41:49 +0100, OwenBot <cheveron(a)gmail.com> said: > 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. Depends what. The mass market is never the British forte. Look for the specialist or niche, and you'll get better results. Look at our car industry for example - gone? Well no, not if you're looking for the fastest of the fast. For that look to F1, and that's utterly British dominated (Ferrari design in the UK, Renault is Toleman Motor Sport rebadged, Jaguar is...err...ok, I'll accept Jaguar F1 as a hit :-) ). In the Spectrum's case, the niche was cheap and functional. The Spectrum hit it - it was my first home machine and I loved it. Moved to a C64 next. but appreciation of the one doesn't preclude appreciation of the other. > We buy it out of a > misplaced sense of loyalty and national pride... Not really - had I been nationalistically inclined and had the money, a BBC B it would have been. The Spectrum succeeded because it hit the intended mark, nothing more and nothing less. Doesn't detract from the C64, simply a different market. Cheers, Ian
From: zxbruno on 23 Apr 2008 03:58
On Apr 20, 8:53 am, Geoff Wearmouth <gwearmo...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > > -- > G. Very interesting. But outside Europe, the Spectrum is practically unknown (and this coming from a Spectrum fanatic). But it's not just the Spectrum that's unknown. I've been living in the U.S. since 95. I've lived in New York, New Jersey, Florida and California, and I've never met someone who was an active 8-bit computer user, be it Sinclair or Commodore. It's easy to find groups of people online, but not in person. In 13 years I've only met a few people who vaguely remembered those computers. Most of them remembered the TRS-80 and Apple 1. I think that the U.S. , being a big country, made it difficult for 8-bit communities to survive. They tried newsletters, BBS, etc. but it wasn't enough. Even if I look online, there's only a handful of people in the U.S. who follow the cult of 8-bit computing as enthusiastically as the guys in Europe. I don't think 8-bit computers had the same cultural, sentimental impact here as they did in Europe. |