RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Andrew Halliwell wrote:
>> RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Homes have almost always been mortgaged, but not for 30 years.
>>> Everything else folks used to save up for. Anyone here ever hear of
>>> layaway? That's the way it used to be done. Somehow it worked then.
>>
>> Never heard of it.
>> But the reason for all the debt is cos people just don't know how to save up
>> for anything anymore.
>>
>> I bought a sinclair QL when I was still in school. I did that by saving my
>> pocket money and bus fares for about a year in order to afford it.
>>
>> Nowadays it's "NOW, I MUST HAVE IT NOW! NOT NEXT MONTH, NOT NEXT WEEK! NOW!"
>> for a lot of people.
>
> I still own a Sinclair QL. I used it regularly into the early 90s. There
> weren't a lot of us in the United States who had them.
Heh, I was still using mine until 1999 when I got my first linux PC. Darned
good machine. Still have it, but age is getting the better of it now.
doesn't like booting up with the Supergold and Qubide plugged in together. I
suspect a dried capacitor or something.
I got it in 1984 and the only part that ever needed replacing was the
keyboard membrane a couple of times. It only started acting up about 4 years
ago.
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