For the price, the Timex/Sinclair wasn't bad either.

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RobVG — 10/27/2006 9:43:11 PM (archived)

For $80 at Kmart, it had a version of BASIC that was fun to play around with. Did things like draw line graphs and wrote a 'family quiz' that threw back obscenities at the user. My brothers loved it.

Touch keyboard was a touch too small.

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"10 Biggest Computer Flops of all time" - TB - 10/27/2006 4:16:46 AM
- Still got the Mac Classic in the garage - Daniel - 10/30/2006 6:28:33 PM
- Deca-Flops (n/t) - nick hoffman - 10/30/2006 12:52:19 PM
- The VIC-20 should have been on that list - SDF - 10/29/2006 3:31:29 PM
  - Sacrilege! - SDAI-Tech1 - 10/29/2006 10:32:09 PM
    - I could do more with a magnedoodle than a Vic-20 (n/t) - SDF - 10/30/2006 1:51:49 PM
- I never had a problem with ME. - REB - 10/27/2006 8:36:34 PM
- Commodore 64+Sinclair 1000 - carl - 10/27/2006 2:01:51 PM
  - C64 was a wonderful computer. - alcaray - 10/27/2006 7:11:47 PM
    - For the price, the Timex/Sinclair wasn't bad either. - RobVG - 10/27/2006 9:43:11 PM
      - Same for the TI 99/4 - Fox - 10/29/2006 8:08:37 PM
        
        Loving memories of Atari 400/800/1200- now those were fine machines! - Yeti - 10/30/2006 4:49:10 AM
        
        I thought you were older than that. - RobVG - 10/30/2006 6:07:33 AM
        
        probably am, depending on what 'that' age is. - Yeti - 10/30/2006 6:26:38 AM
      - Closest I came to that was supporting ATMs based on the Z80 family of chips (n/t) - alcaray - 10/28/2006 8:39:47 PM
      - re: For the price, the Timex/Sinclair wasn't bad either. - Laurie Street - 10/27/2006 11:36:16 PM
        
        FOR s = 0 TO 1000 GOTO - carl - 10/28/2006 5:09:30 PM
        
        10 Print "Bite Me" - RobVG - 10/28/2006 6:52:19 PM
- Processing power now is like steam in the 1700 and 1800s. - Bowser - 10/27/2006 5:25:15 AM
- Terra flops. (n/t) - . - 10/27/2006 4:56:48 AM
  - Try Terra flops. (n/t) - RobVG - 10/31/2006 2:19:52 AM

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