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Originally Posted by Less
You mention computers?
lets look at the history of home grown computers?
The spectrum built by a guy that only wanted to build a tricycle powered by batteries and peddles.
The Amstrad A sugary little item that was rotten just like a set of neglected teeth from eating too many toffees I believe over 50% of them never worked properly when set up by their purchasers.
The Acorn that superduper cutting edge machine that was going to be the BBC's computer of choice. when the BBC executives went to see it the designers had only got their prototype working seconds before they arrived in the room. (A large proportion of whom had left Mr. Sinclair to his car, but that didn't stop him and the boss of Acorn having a girly fight in a Cambridge pub).
Our home grown computers were trash be honest.
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Well lets look at the competition then, Commodore VIC 20 not as good as the PET, although the C64 was quite good.
Tandy TRS-80......
Atari's offerings.........
I think most computers at the time were rather bad, to be fair.
The thing is Sir Clive and Chris Curry (Acorn) were rather clever chaps,
Between them they paved the way forward, okay the major players are foreign, Apple, Dell, Sony etc, but without the pioneers we would live in a very different world.
On a side note, do any of our members have a mobile phone? If so inside that is a Micro chip that was developed by Chris Curry back in the 80's just for the BBC Micro. Its Name ARM, the company made £160 Million last year and they are British.
Sir Clive Sinclair, well there's a true genius and eccentric, but to be honest he saw the future, electric cars, albeit the C5 was not his finest moment, but he had vision, something lacking in most of us these days.
Speaking of the C5, didn't Segway copy the idea?????