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The Sinclair calculator was my pride and joy as a boy, but the ZX series may as well have not existed ... computing for me in the UK started with the BBC Model
by PaulDavisThe1st 2y ago
The Sinclair calculator was my pride and joy as a boy, but the ZX series may as well have not existed ... computing for me in the UK started with the BBC Model B, as I am sure it did for many (maybe even most?) others.
- rbanffy 2y agoIndeed. Acorn is the other British Micro Behemoth (and their legacy lives on today)
- lproven 2y agoI suspect a lot more people got to use Beebs than Spectrums, because of shared hardware in schools... But the Speccy outsold the Beeb by a large margin, I believe. Narrowly outsold by the C64 and that shifted 17 million units.