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And yet, the 48K is in history books, and is fondly remembered by many of us tech geeks who cut their teeth on that machine. It doesn't matter everything else

• hughrr 5y ago
  Yes and no. The 48k was a bit of a disaster to start with. Lots of failures, bugs galore, a full recall due to power supply shock hazard. Not to mention the horrible keyboard. When you look at the microscopic view of owning one computer from him that worked it does somewhat rose tint the overall view of things which was not good.
  • 123pie123 5y ago
    these are extremely minor issues when you look at the bigger picture - you could argue that Clive kick started the multi billion pound games industry by getting young people interested in computer games sure it would have happened anyway, but he definately made it happen earlier almost 100% of the people who work in IT (in the UK) over a certain age had one of his affordable computers
  • Angostura 5y ago
    > Not to mention the horrible keyboard. There were lots of home computers available with proper keyboards. As a kid I couldn't afford any of them. That horrible keyboard did me just fine.