On Wednesday, December 4, 2002, at 09:08 PM, David Orriss Jr wrote:
>
> On Wednesday, December 04, 2002 6:32 PM,
> John Acuff <jacuff1_at_earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> Reminds me of the other night when I was at Sears. I walked thru the
>> computer department just for the heck of it. They had a display for a
>> Palm of some kind. The display proclaimed proudly, "The computer that
>> fits in your pocket." That really gave me a chuckle!
>> John
>>
>
> Well, it *is* a computer... in the same sense that the Apple ][ and
> the Sinclair
> ZX81 were both computers... ;)
I'm not sure I would put the Sinclair in the same class as the Apple ][.
; - )
Actually, I still have an old membrane keyboard ZX80. I never had a
power supply for it, so I have no idea if it works or not. Did they
have a built-in OS? Or did you have to load it somehow? I don't
remember seeing any connection for external storage.
John
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