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From: agila61 on 21 Dec 2006 13:58 spike1(a)freenet.co.uk wrote: > I included canada. I didn't say USA, I said north american subcontinent. > So nyerrrrr. (Or did I say that in a different post... pah, can't be arsed > checking back) Yes, you did say North American subcontinent ... I found it amusing that after making North America a subcontinent, you then were forced to abandon the "subcontinent to subcontinent" comparison in favour of country of origin, since the claim that the Spectrum was more popular in its subcontinent of origin won't stand scrutiny. Of course, poms are non-European when it suits them, and Europeans when it suits them. It should be no surprise that a country that cannot prevent an opposition wicket keeper from scoring 24 in a single over would have trouble producing a home computer that sells widely outside home soil. If only youse hadn't lose the Empire, you could have imposed the Spectrum on Oz through Imperial Preference.
From: Daniel Mandic on 21 Dec 2006 16:51 agila61(a)netscape.net wrote: > Yes, you did say North American subcontinent ... I found it amusing > that after making North America a subcontinent, you then were forced > to abandon the "subcontinent to subcontinent" comparison in favour of > country of origin, since the claim that the Spectrum was more popular > in its subcontinent of origin won't stand scrutiny. If South-America or North-America is a sub-continent, does not matter. One of them is. You obviously forgot the popularity of Z80 based machines in Brazil and other Countries in the subcontinent, south from the middle ;-) > widely outside home soil. If only youse hadn't lose the Empire, you > could have imposed the Spectrum on Oz through Imperial Preference. I am satisfied. Even the/some german Technic-Profis are fond of it, AFAIK. Best Regards, Daniel Mandic P.S.: I would propose a Check Game. C64 vs. Spectrum 48K. For the MMVI C64 to Sinclair flame time. [Software free to choose.... Hardware: Standard, w/o accelerator....) I bet 2 pounds of finest sun-grown tomatoes, against the C64.
From: MagerValp on 21 Dec 2006 18:27 >>>>> "DS" == Duncan Snowden <dss(a)ukonline.co.uk> writes: MV> I don't suppose anyone's written a book documenting the rise and MV> fall of Sinclair? DS> No need. Sinclair's still around. http://www.sinclair-research.co.uk Not exactly a major player in the home computer market these days though. -- ___ . . . . . + . . o _|___|_ + . + . + . Per Olofsson, arkadspelare o-o . . . o + MagerValp(a)cling.gu.se - + + . http://www.cling.gu.se/~cl3polof/
From: agila61 on 21 Dec 2006 18:50 Daniel Mandic wrote: > agila61(a)netscape.net wrote: > > Yes, you did say North American subcontinent ... I found it amusing > > that after making North America a subcontinent, you then were forced > > to abandon the "subcontinent to subcontinent" comparison in favour of > > country of origin, since the claim that the Spectrum was more popular > > in its subcontinent of origin won't stand scrutiny. > If South-America or North-America is a sub-continent, does not matter. > One of them is. Neither of them are, they are each continents. Eurasia, Africa, North America, South America, Australia, Antartica. > You obviously forgot the popularity of Z80 based machines in Brazil and > other Countries in the subcontinent, south from the middle ;-) "Z80 based" does not equal Spectrum any more than "6502 based" equals C64. Some of the most successful home computers in Brasil were NES-pirate machines. > > widely outside home soil. If only youse hadn't lose the Empire, you > > could have imposed the Spectrum on Oz through Imperial Preference. > I am satisfied. Even the/some german Technic-Profis are fond of it, > AFAIK. But there is no doubt that the C64 was more successful overall in the mainland part of the European subcontinent than the Spectrum, irrespective of the Spectrum's success in its home island to the east of Ireland.
From: spike1 on 27 Dec 2006 15:07
agila61(a)netscape.net did eloquently scribble: > spike1(a)freenet.co.uk wrote: >> I included canada. I didn't say USA, I said north american subcontinent. >> So nyerrrrr. (Or did I say that in a different post... pah, can't be arsed >> checking back) > Yes, you did say North American subcontinent ... I found it amusing > that after making North America a subcontinent, you then were forced to > abandon the "subcontinent to subcontinent" comparison in favour of > country of origin, since the claim that the Spectrum was more popular > in its subcontinent of origin won't stand scrutiny. In the 1980s, britain was not part of europe politically or geographically. (Well, not as far as any of the populace were concerned anyway) > Of course, poms are non-European when it suits them You betcha. :) > and Europeans when > it suits them. I think you'll find the vast majority don't think of themselves as european even now. > It should be no surprise that a country that cannot > prevent an opposition wicket keeper from scoring 24 in a single over > would have trouble producing a home computer that sells widely outside > home soil. Hmmmm, I recognised the words, but the overall sentence was meaningless... Some odd australian dialect perhaps? or worse? sportese? -- ______________________________________________________________________________ | spike1(a)freenet.co.uk | | |Andrew Halliwell BSc(hons)| "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't | | in | suck is probably the day they start making | | Computer science | vacuum cleaners" - Ernst Jan Plugge | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |