A rubber keyed ZX Spectrum was my first computer too. I saw a friend of one of my mates playing Jetpac on one and bought it off of him there and then for twenty five quid in about 1982. It was only 16k so paid another twenty five quid for it to be upgraded to 48k
What was cool?
Yes, it sure was.
What was peculiar?
No, not at all.
What did you do on it?
I played games on it mostly but I did write my own simple program for my daughter to learn her times tables with. It would display a sum and ask her to enter the answer. It would praise her for getting it correct or ask her to please try again if it was wrong. I also wrote another couple of simple programs that chose the 11 pools numbers and 6 lottery numbers for my Grandad. He also bought a Spectrum of his own to run the programs I had written and to play Fighter Pilot and Chess on. He also copied me and bought an Amiga not long after I did, so that he could use the flight simulator Airbus 320 Volume II and play Battle Chess
What do you miss about it ?
Nothing cos I still have a Spectum +3 with floppy drive..hehehe.. But better still my Amiga's emulate one perfectly so no waiting for tapes to load
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