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RSS c64Does the ZX Spectrum deserve its crown?
News Amstrad or Spectrum? Commodore 64 or Acorn Electron? silicon.com readers have posted a flurry of comments around a poll we ran recently asking the question, what was your first home computer? Not only was it a very popular poll - but the... [30 Apr 2008]
Dear silicon.com... ZX Spectrum nostalgia, Mac attack, tag a bag…
Comment The topic that got readers turning to their keyboards this week was silicon.com's latest poll: What was your first home computer? Comments came flying in on this, some cheering for the winner, while some were a little miffed their... [24 Apr 2008]
Editor's Blog: Home computing from Acorn, Amiga and Amstrad, to the ZX Spectrum
Comment Here at silicon.com we recently, rather unexpectedly, unleashed a tidal wave of tech nostalgia by asking the deceptively simple question: what was your first home computer? This question formed the basis of our latest reader poll - which... [22 Apr 2008]
My first computer: The Commodore 64
News This article was first published in February 2002 as part of our 'Technologies That Time Forgot' series. We are running the full series again to mark the recent re-birth of Commodore. Thus far we've featured the BBC Micro, the Sinclair... [03 Feb 2005]
My first computer: The Vic-20
News This article was first published in February 2002 as part of our 'Technologies That Time Forgot' series. We are running the full series again to mark the recent re-birth of Commodore. Thus far we've featured the BBC Micro, the Sinclair... [27 Jan 2005]
Re:Viewing 2002 - hardware (part two)
News But enough about the software and Microsoft. Another factor against the ultra PC form factor may turn out to be Intel's absence. What has the big chip-maker - the hardware vendor par excellence - been up to? [20 Nov 2002]
Technologies Time Forgot: The Vic-20 and the Commodore 64
Comment So far in our 1980s home computing series we've concentrated on some home-grown hits - the Spectrum (http://www.silicon.com/a50364), the Electron (http://www.silicon.com/a50548) and the BBC Micro (http://www.silicon.com/a50782). [04 Feb 2002]
Technologies Time Forgot: The Vic-20 and the Commodore 64
News So far in our 1980s home computing series we've concentrated on some home-grown hits - the Spectrum (http://www.silicon.com/a50364), the Electron (http://www.silicon.com/a50548) and the BBC Micro (http://www.silicon.com/a50782). [01 Feb 2002]
Best of Reader Comments: ZX Spectrum users get dewy eyed
Comment Ben King took a trip down memory lane last week with his homage to the ZX Spectrum (http://www.silicon.com/a50364 ). It seems quite a few of you have decided to join him. Here are just a few of your reader comments. [14 Jan 2002]
Technologies Time Forgot: Commodore 64
Comment From its release in 1982 through to the final models rolling off the production line in 1992, estimates suggest as many as 22 million Commodore 64 units were sold worldwide. This makes it the most popular 8-bit home computer in the world... [24 Dec 1982]
Technologies Time Forgot: The Vic-20 and the Commodore 64
Comment Jon Bernstein writes: I probably don't deserve to write silicon.com's eulogy to the Commodore 64 because I have a shameful secret. A secret, nearly 20 years later, I only now dare tell. I'd had my C64 - a Spectrum... [24 Dec 1982]
