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From: kvj@rhi.hi.is (Kristjan Valur Jonsson)
Newsgroups: eunet.micro.acorn,comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: Other Acorn Computers
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Date: 18 Mar 91 13:12:55 GMT
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In <210@hobby.ukc.ac.uk> has@ukc.ac.uk (H.A.Shaw) writes:

>    My *FIRST* computer (I don't count my "Science of Cambridge MK14") was a
>Jupiter ACE, a Z80 processor, 959 bytes of user program RAM and FORTH in ROM,
>I upgraded to an Atom and never looked back.

How wonderful, another Jupiter Ace owner!!!  That was my first micro too,
and it was just wonderful.  I admit though, that when the heaps of games
started to pile up for the ZX Spectrum, I had second thoughts.  But having
Forth as a language made up for it.  The manual was well written and
I read it all even though it was written in English (I was younger then.).
I am very grateful to the guys who made this contraption because it really
made me understand how primitive BASIC is.

Kristjan