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The Oric does not have a great reputation in the UK – Taskset’s Andy Walker compared it to a doorstop – so how would you defend it? Why does it have a poor reputation there? It was even made by an English company! The construction of the machine – Sinclair machines were cheap and they looked cheap – the Oric beat that, especially the Atmos; it was a wellmade machine. And the display processor in the Oric, the same as in the Thomson machines three years later, you define the colours and then the line has the colours. So it was rather difficult to program when you had sprites, you end up with a blank area on the left of it, that’s annoying. It was cheap and well-made, so it’s unfair.