Re: OT: 25th Anniversary of the Spectrum

On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 12:44:13 +0100, "Paul Moloney"
<paul_moloney@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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.

Personally my home computing started with my father buying a Research
Machines 380Z. A friend had a ZX80 we used to code on, then my first
machine was a ZX81. I went from that to an Amstrad CPC464 so missed
out on the Speccy.
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