---
title: "Across the Pond"
type: "article"
slug: "across-the-pond-13"
url: "http://localhost/article/across-the-pond-13/"
markdown_url: "http://localhost/article/across-the-pond-13.md"
published_at: "2020-10-27T17:19:48+00:00"
modified_at: "2024-05-26T14:06:42+00:00"
featured_image:
  url: "http://localhost/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/20230809-041332.jpg"
excerpt: "Describes how news of Amstrad's buyout of Sinclair has impacted the American scene. Carol and George Whitham, who founded A+ Computer Response, had taken on the QL. Also reporting on the 1986 Midwest Timex/Sinclair Computer Fest, including details about Zebra Systems' programmer's working up to the last minute before the show."
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    slug: "zx-computing"
    taxonomy: "category"
    url: "http://localhost/category/periodicals/zx-computing/"
post_tag:
  - name: "A+ Computer Response"
    slug: "a-computer-response"
    taxonomy: "post_tag"
    url: "http://localhost/tag/a-computer-response/"
  - name: "QL"
    slug: "ql"
    taxonomy: "post_tag"
    url: "http://localhost/tag/ql/"
  - name: "TS 2068"
    slug: "ts2068"
    taxonomy: "post_tag"
    url: "http://localhost/tag/ts2068/"
  - name: "Zebra Systems"
    slug: "zebra-systems"
    taxonomy: "post_tag"
    url: "http://localhost/tag/zebra-systems/"
model:
  - name: "Sinclair QL"
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    taxonomy: "model"
    url: "http://localhost/model/sinclair-ql/"
  - name: "Timex/Sinclair 2068"
    slug: "ts-2068"
    taxonomy: "model"
    url: "http://localhost/model/ts-2068/"
indiv:
  - name: "Mark Fendrick"
    slug: "mark-fendrick"
    taxonomy: "indiv"
    url: "http://localhost/indiv/mark-fendrick/"
publication: "ZX Computing"
publication_r:
  id: 10285
  title: "ZX Computing"
  type: "periodical"
  url: "http://localhost/periodical/zx-computing/"
authors: "Mark Fendrick"
pages: "62-63"
pubdate: "July 1986"
archive_link: false
archiveurl: "https://archive.org/download/zxcomputing-magazine-1986-07/ZXComputing_1986_07.pdf"
volumeissue: "vn"
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  - id: 10612
    title: "A+ Computer Response"
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    url: "http://localhost/company/a-computer-response/"
  - id: 11469
    title: "Zebra Systems, Inc."
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    url: "http://localhost/company/zebra-systems/"
---

Describes how news of Amstrad’s buyout of Sinclair has impacted the American scene. Carol and George Whitham, who founded A+ Computer Response, had taken on the QL. Also reporting on the 1986 Midwest Timex/Sinclair Computer Fest, including details about Zebra Systems’ programmer’s working up to the last minute before the show.