Re:Computing History - Sinclair ZX81 Computer Launched
by leoc on Saturday March 05, 2011 @11:29AM
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My recollection is that schools adopted the BBC, but consumers bought the Spectrum. Later on (as I recall) the C64 took an increasingly large share of the market.
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Re:Computing History - Sinclair ZX81 Computer Launched
by rbanffy on Saturday March 05, 2011 @06:28PM
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Interesting. The BBC was, in many respects, very sophisticated for the time. It makes sense the simpler, cheaper, Spectrum made a larger splash in the home market.
In Brazil, the home market belonged to Apple II clones at first. Small offices split evenly between TRS-80s and IIs, with a small participation of CP/M machines. Later the home split between IIs and MSXs, losing space progressively to IBM clones. And then it all became this dull x86 world we now know.