Re: OT: 25th Anniversary of the Spectrum

On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, Paul Moloney wrote:

It's no exaggeration to say that the Speccy, the Volkswagen Beetle of computing, is responsibility for many of us from the UK and Ireland getting into gaming and computing; I definitely wouldn't have the career I have today without it.

There were a lot of ZX Spectrums used in germany as well at the time and often looked down upon by C64 owners, like the Atari ST was looked down upon later by Amiga owners. Still the underdogs Spectrum and ST probably provided more creativity to their users because they were not as closed and fixed on graphics as their competitors. Think PC vs consolers now ;)!
Of cource I myself started my computer hobby with a ZX Spectrum as well.

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