So unlike most of you I suppose, I was an old Apple user from back when that was unpopular and PC users used to tease me for it. The first computer I ever worked with was My Grandfather's old Apple //e (which I still have and even works after a fashion). My first computer was a Mac SE, and over the last few years, I've been getting into collecting and learning about as many old computers as I can. Honestly, being in the States (and somewhat oblivious at the time) I never even heard of Sinclair or anything outside of Apple IBM and their various clones. Well, I did hear about the C64 but had never seen so much as a picture of one until I was in my late thirties. Now I own three.
As for the Timex Sinclair/ZX81... I seem to be following the same pattern. My first is fully functional, 2k untouched, the other two are, shall we say, works in progress. So I expect to be asking a lot of hardware questions in the near future.
I've posted a lot on AtariAge, and joined a few other retro computer forums over the years (mostly Apple II related but Lemon64 as well), and when I got my TS-1000s I was referred here. So I'm looking forward to learning something new, and getting a few old computers up and running again like they deserve!
