It's so odd. Surely you'd do a 'professional' Spectrum. Hey guys you can run Spectrum software but it has 80 columns, a load of memory and a disk drive. But no Sinclair go their own way......
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It seems to be common for quite a few of the pioneers of the time - they didn't really use their own machines. They were much more interested in what they could build next, not what their last product could be pushed to do. And Sinclair (like Sugar) really wasn't specifically a computer guy.
I don't think people really grasped the value of software compatibility back then. They were too used to new, incompatible, machines being released and software just showing up. The value of user's investment wasn't really on their radar. Bill Gates, as a software guy, saw it differently.
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