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News Many readers agreed with the overall winner - the ZX Spectrum - with one reader from Scotland commenting: "My old Spectrum sits in a small display frame to remind me of how simple computers used to be to use and how easy it was to do almost...
[30 Apr 2008]
News It was time for some tech nostalgia during April with the Sinclair ZX spectrum crowned the most popular first home computer by silicon.com readers. ZX Spectrum crowned king of computer classics Check out where your favourite golden oldies came in...
[28 Apr 2008]
Round-Up The intro rather gave it away: it's the ZX Spectrum, that diminutive, rubber-keyed pixie of computational delight. It's a well known fact that Samuel Johnson started to write the first dictionary on a ZX Spectrum.
[25 Apr 2008]
Comment Winner: The ZX Spectrum! ZX Spectrum crowned king of computer classics Editor's choice silicon.com editor Steve Ranger flags up his picks on the site this week.¦ Minority Report: iPhone, Android and the world in your pocket ¦ Peter...
[24 Apr 2008]
Comment This question formed the basis of our latest reader poll - which saw the ZX Spectrum voted as the most popular of the 10 pieces of antique hardware we listed. While many approved of the ZX Spectrum being crowned king - including one reader who...
[22 Apr 2008]
News The Sinclair ZX Spectrum has been crowned the most popular first home computer, beating off competition from other classics such as the Amiga and BBC Micro. Almost a third (31 per cent) of the more than 900 respondents in the silicon.com poll said...
[18 Apr 2008]
News Thus far we've featured the Acorn Electron, the BBC Micro, the Commodore 64, the Sinclair ZX Spectrum and the Vic-20. Here Graham Hayday reminds us that, though the kids loved the ZX Spectrum and the BBC Micro, his memories of the Dragon 32 aren...
[10 Feb 2005]
News Thus far we've featured the BBC Micro, the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, the Acorn Electron and the Vic-20. The machine's sound and video capabilities were streets ahead of its main rival, the ZX Spectrum. I'd had my C64 - a Spectrum replacement - for...
[03 Feb 2005]
News Thus far we've featured the BBC Micro, the Sinclair ZX Spectrum and the Acorn Electron. It was my dad, wallet in hand, who didn't like the idea of a rubber, 'dead flesh' Spectrum keyboard or the price tag of a BBC Micro ("I already pay the licence...
[27 Jan 2005]
News Parts one and two featured the Sinclair ZX Spectrum and the Acorn Electron. Early discussions with Clive Sinclair were fruitless, when the machine he offered failed to match the rigorous specifications (Spectrum aficionados take note), and...
[20 Jan 2005]
News By the early eighties Acorn was enjoying great success with the BBC B - the computer of choice for schools up and down the country - but Curry was a friend of Clive Sinclair, having worked for Sinclair research, and by 1983 he was eager to get his...
[14 Jan 2005]
News The only comfort in a world on the brink of nuclear annihilation was a small black box about the size of a video cassette with a rash of rubber keys breaking out on its surface - the ZX Spectrum. The Spectrum was a somewhat rushed follow-up to the...
[11 Jan 2005]
News THE ZX SPECTRUM BBC at school, Electron at home, arguments with Spectrum owners on the way home.http://www.silicon.com/a50548 One of our most popular video pieces ever was The Big Question: What was your first computer?
[14 Jan 2003]
Comment Consider if you will the striking similarity between a ZX Spectrum and the black monolith from 2001: a Space Odyssey. Like the early monkey-men of the film, Spectrum users started off hitting the computers in frustration but the little computer...
[12 Apr 2002]
Comment Lobal's current demo for LAD involves giving simple instructions to a little tank that understands about 20 words - nothing you couldn't program a ZX Spectrum to do. In the first of a new series, we profile the people who chose the dot-com downturn...
[21 Mar 2002]
News Technologies That Time Forgot: The ZX Spectrum http://www.silicon.com/a50364 It is 40 years since the birth of what is widely credited as the first video game, since students at MIT created an Asteroids-like program called Spacewar.
[05 Mar 2002]
Comment The kids loved the ZX Spectrum and the BBC Micro, but Graham Hayday's memories of the Dragon 32 aren't quite so fond. My mum and dad believed its keys were much more grown-up than the Spectrum's rubber horrors and it must therefore have been a far...
[11 Feb 2002]
News The kids loved the ZX Spectrum and the BBC Micro, but Graham Hayday's memories of the Dragon 32 aren't quite so fond. My mum and dad believed its keys were much more grown-up than the Spectrum's rubber horrors and it must therefore have been a far...
[08 Feb 2002]
News Following last week's look at the Sinclair ZX Spectrum (http://www.silicon.com/a50364 ), this week we consider one of its rivals in the UK home computing market almost 20 years ago, the Acorn Electron.
[18 Jan 2002]
News And still the ZX Spectrum piece (http://www.silicon.com/a50504 ) keeps the reader comments flooding in: BBC at school, Electron at home, arguments with Spectrum owners on the way home.http://www.silicon.com/a50548
[18 Jan 2002]
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