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excerpt: "\"One of the most interesting phenomena could be Sinclair,\" he says. \"Sinclair has introduced a series of small, not very powerful, but remarkably inexpensive computers. While people who are used to the speed of, say, a PET or a VIC would find some of the existing Sinclair computers very slow, we can't ignore the fact…"
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# Meet Jim Butterfield

“One of the most interesting phenomena could be Sinclair,” he says. “Sinclair has introduced a series of small, not very powerful, but remarkably inexpensive computers. While people who are used to the speed of, say, a PET or a VIC would find some of the existing Sinclair computers very slow, we can’t ignore the fact that Sinclair through Timex is going to sell an astonishing number of machines.”