I had a Spectrum too with the rubber keys. Remember you used to get computer magazines with programmes that you could type in and make games. Slightest mistake and it didn't work and the games were so basic. You thought it was great at the time though.
Oh yes.
I remember that well..
I remember 'ahem' downloading a game on dial up modem, two days...
I still do it occasionally with some Raspberry Pi stuff..
not a lot but mostly copy and paste though..
(I use Putty and copy and paste is a bit hit and miss)
Just to run daft wee things like
10 Print 'Bob is good'
20 GOTO 10


(hopefully correct)
The cost..
I paid £250 for a Commodore C128,
some double tape decks could copy the games
Owdo Mr Blue Skies
You're gonna need some protection if this carries on. You got any?
The telly ate batteries and the C5 needed narrower wheels.
Wonder what sort of reception they'd get if introduced now, what with e-scooters and e-bikes on the roads. Single speed with wide "tyres" wasn't the best idea. Better batteries now as well.
Morning??
Another blue do,
aye, I'm staying inside....
Never thought they'd actually catch on. Sure the tape size had been reduced, but they took too long to load.
Would you wait over half an hour for it to load nowadays?
Gone full circle in some ways with Raspberry Pi? now allowing something similar. Don't think there's actual games for it though.
Owdo
Raspberry Pis are brilliant wee things..
I've one running since 2016 doing the plane stuff, think I upgraded from a 2 to a 3B at one point, SD cards? replaced only 1.
It runs other ADBS progs like performance charts and ModeSMixer2, they port over to my computer..
Sadly plane numbers well down, averaging 33% of normal (what is normal

) but hopefully,
my location does me in as if I could get 50 to 70 miles further W / SW I'd pick up the busy tract out over Ireland.
I have a couple of projects I want to do but keep putting them off..