gbb said:
I cant remember if there was ANYTHING before the Spectrum...loads came after, but AFAIR nothing before.
The
ZX81! 1K of Memory, only black and white and no lowercase letters. Annoying touch-sensitive keyboard, and it was incredibly slow. Amazing at the time that you could get a computer for £40.
We got one when I was nine years old. Set me on the career path I'm on today ;-). I remember the first time I saw a Spectrum, I was blown away by the
raw power of the thing - it could do a times table in less than a second - much faster than the ZX81...
Of course, my parents being academics, we got a
BBC Micro for our next computer - not as many good games, but it was a joy to program.