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Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread

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Specmaster:
Don't be to hard on the poor old ZX80, with that and the Mk14 by Sinclair, the BBC micro might not have been made. Rubbish the ZX80 and 81 were, they kick started the home computing revolution and the BBC, Acorn, Commodore, Tandy, New Brain, Oric, Atari, Sony, etc came along as a result of Sinclair's efforts.

I wanted a BBC, couldn't afford it so ended with a SX Spectrum and then went on to heavily mod it by adding 3.5" disc drive, proper keyboard, printer etc.

bd139:
I think that's technically that the other vendors came along despite Sinclair's attempt at laying a steamer on the market. Yes the BBC was insanely expensive at the time compared to the others. Joy to my father's ability to avoid spending money, he found a model B at a bankruptcy auction and got it for under a 100 compared to the 300 or so it would have cost. Was new in box!

Or that's probably what he told my mother.

Seeing a pattern here with TEA  :-DD

Specmaster:
Yep, he taught you well [emoji41]

From mobile device so predictive text might have struck again [emoji83]

bd139:
Yeah one of his tricks was keeping all the boxes for everything so when he bought something new on the sly he could explain it away as the person kept the box because after all that’s what he did with his things.

Specmaster:

--- Quote from: bd139 on June 27, 2018, 02:28:42 pm ---Yeah one of his tricks was keeping all the boxes for everything so when he bought something new on the sly he could explain it away as the person kept the box because after all that’s what he did with his things.

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Problem today is that we have so much and to keep the boxes needs another house to put them in.
Sent from my mobile device so predictive text might have struck again [emoji83]

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