How could you
leave off the Sinclair? I (I believe, maybe wrongly, that Timex took it over later). Almost bought one of those gadgets back then. Then got some bonus money at work and bought a Radio Shack Color Computer (CoCo I). It ran Basic in 32K and, if you knew what minor H/W changes to make, you could activate all 64K and run OS/9 from Microware - a Unix clone that ran in 64K, including real multi-tasking. I still have it and later bought the CoCo 3 with 512K of memory (WOW!!!), an RGB monitor and a more powerful version of OS/9. I had the multipak which allowed me to hook up two TEAC floppys. I still have that too. About 5 or 6 years later, I bought a PC Jr., later added "top box" (instead of a side car) and had 640K of memory and a second floppy. Also have that one too. BTW, all three still work today - more than I can say for the later PCs that I bought.
