Talk:Matra Alice

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[edit] Rebranded

I've never seen an Alice in the flesh, but it looks just like a Sinclair Research ZX81 (a better photo of the keyboard is here). It sold in the US as a Timex Sinclair 1000. It seems likely that it's another rebrand of the ZX81 (and if we can find one, that Tandy you mention is yet another). -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 11:03, 7 May 2004 (UTC)

Ah, I've read the exlink, and it seems they are different. Man, people weren't very imaginative about industrial design back them :) -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 11:07, 7 May 2004 (UTC)

It was much more powerful than the ZX-81. This is a Tandy MC-10 in red with French keyboard.

Ericd 18:27, 7 May 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Success?

The article claims that the Alice was more successful than the original MC-10. This article and this article both suggest otherwise.

This one seems to imply that it was favoured by its inclusion in the government programme, but I'm not sure how much of a success that made it.

Fourohfour 14:29, 14 January 2006 (UTC)