tuckeratlarge Posted April 23, 2007 Share Posted April 23, 2007 Happy Birthday Sinclair ZX Spectrum, 25 today. In April 1982 a small British company, led by Sir Clive Sinclair, launched the ZX Spectrum computer and sparked a revolution. The small, black computer with iconic rubber keys ignited the home computer age in the UK and beyond, led to an explosion in computer manufacturing and developed software programming talent that is still in evidence today. The computer was the brainchild of British technology entrepreneur Sir Clive Sinclair who also, with the Sinclair Cambridge, developed one of the first cheap and slim pocket calculators in 1972. The Spectrum was the third home computer to be released by Sinclair - following the ZX80 and ZX81 - but was the first aimed squarely at the home. The machine came in two models - ?125 for a 16KB machine and ?175 for a 48KB machine, making it one of the first affordable machines. Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beardedwonder Posted April 23, 2007 Share Posted April 23, 2007 hmmm, i'm getting old! :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rappy Veteran Posted April 23, 2007 Veteran Share Posted April 23, 2007 Retro!!!! :D The consoles older then me but I think my mate has one of these =) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garry Posted April 23, 2007 Share Posted April 23, 2007 I had two of these! Then the hard-keyed 128k, then inherited by cousin's +3 with integrated tape loader. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foub Posted April 23, 2007 Share Posted April 23, 2007 I had a Sinclair ZX81 that was a kit from England and worked on UHF channel 33 instead of VHF 3 or 4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulK_CMF Posted April 23, 2007 Share Posted April 23, 2007 Man that brings back memories, had spectrums, comodores 16 - Amiga 500 etc before moving up to a "proper" PC. Happy days of keyboards that were flimsy and joysticks that broke after one game of Daley Thompson's Decathlon lol :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pikey Posted April 23, 2007 Share Posted April 23, 2007 Still got mine under the bed!! ... It probably still works but I haven't got a cassete tape recorder to try it out with!! ... and you can still get 'em off ebay!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicholas-c Veteran Posted April 23, 2007 Veteran Share Posted April 23, 2007 this was on BBC news :p happy birthday :fun: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laurë Veteran Posted April 24, 2007 Veteran Share Posted April 24, 2007 I am too young for this but... I'm assuming it's true, this guy was one of my uni lecturers. The machine's software was written by Steve Vickers Wikipedia ZX Spectrum (my only claim to fame lol) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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