ZX80 - was: SN76477N

[Jules Richardson]

Tony Duell wrote:
> I really don't understand the love of Sinclair products. IU'd much rather 
> have nad use something DEC or HP, or one of the many other companies that 
> didn't cut every possible corner and then some impossible ones. But then 
> collectores are often strange.

I suppose the name Sinclair is closely tied to the early days of the 
home computer boom, and at least in the UK people will think of his 
products before the likes of Commodore or Apple.

Plus as Sridhar said, one of his machines was often the first that many 
of us owned (it was in my case, which was why I hung onto my Sinclair 
collection for a long time after I really needed the space it took up :)

Plus Sinclair always had that whacky mad scientist air about him which 
makes his stuff appealing.

I suppose the thing about Sinclair stuff is that it was cheap - but it 
was obviously cheap, so you knew pretty much what you were getting. 
Compare to machines with similar capabilities of the time and quite 
often they weren't really much better in terms of what users wanted - 
but the packaging was a lot slicker and hence the price was a lot higher...

cheers

Jules