Automatic digest processor wrote:
> Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 14:05:05 -0500
> From: boB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: How's this for Surv? (ok, so it's not PC)
>
> On Wed, 16 Feb 2000 19:02:19 +0200, Or Botton wrote:
>
> > UGH!. If it wasnt for not being sure about NTSC and international
> > shipping.. and the sad fact that its still quite expensive I would
> > have bought one. now!. aya.
>
> hmmm...
> Any interest in a 64K build-from-schematics-and-parts-list (no kit) very
> inexpensive computer? Enough interest for a new list? This particular
> one doesn't exist yet, but it's not *that* hard.
>
There is, or was a Fidonet conference devoted to the 8-bit computers, but I can't
remember what the name of it was. There are a ZX81 newsgroup
and mailing list, both of which were surprisingly active last I checked.
The Timex/Sinclair newsgroup is comp.sys.sinclair
To subscribe to the ZX81 mailing list, send a message to:
[EMAIL PROTECTED], with "subscribe zx81" in BODY.
When someone mentions 'PC', I have always felt that it should include the IBM
'Personal Computer', which I believe was a trademarked name, and all
the variations and clones thereafter. But, I have heard people claim that the PC
designation has always been used to designate what I prefer to
call a 'Desktop home computer'. I never heard the acronym 'PC' until the IBM PC was
made, though, so I stand by my definition. I'm sure the
Apple was never called a PC before then, for instance.
It's possible that the term 'PC' has now fallen into generic use as a term to describe
any 'Desktop computer', home or otherwise.
If the managers here want to rename this list as 'SurvDesktopComputers', I sure
wouldn't complain, because I like to discuss the old 8-bits
occasionally. Or, if they want to just clarify the SurvPC list as including
discussions about any older 'Desktop Computer', that'd be OK, too.
{:^>) I don't know if any generic 8-bit mailing lists exist.
The first desktop computer I used was the IBM Desktop 64, I think it was called, back
in the 70's, at my job. It preceded the 'PC', and competed
mainly with the TRS80 series. The first *home* desktop I saw was something called the
Wizard. I forget who made it, but it plugged into any
standard TV, I think.
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