The ZX Spectrum, a classic UK 8-bit computer, is 40 years old today

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In the end, it was the keyboard that made me choose the VIC-20 over the Speccy.
Which, logically, led to a C-64 soon after.

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Was just coming to post that! Thanks!

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E-waste that barely preceded better under-counter televisions. I like to think that Britons largely imagined a faster speccy and wrote for that. 7 MHz was okay (on the A500. With accelerator.)

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I wonder what the total number of ‘Spectrums’ sold would be if you added all the clones - not just the Timex machines sold in the US, but the thriving clone scene in the former Eastern Bloc?

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The Soviet Digital Electronics Museum site has a section for Spectrum clones (with dozens of examples), although they are not explicitly classified as such. Go down to the “Z80 family computers” section.

P.S. The video somehow fails to mention that Didaktik computers were made in Czechoslovakia, not the USSR.

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