There was a time when home computers were cheap, ultra-compact and well-designed. That would be 1982, the year Clive Sinclair released the ZX Spectrum. It's was 25 years ago this month that the little bugger — with its Zilog Z80 CPU and 16 Kb of RAM — conquered Britain. And it did so before the fatter and more expensive competition was even on the shelves.
Lars Olofsson has fished out a review of the machine from a issue of Your Computer, a magazine that was itself forgotten by the 1990s, wherein the tiny machine is seen to outperform the full-size desktops of its day. It's sad to think that it was Dreamcasted by the Commodore 64 and Amstrad CPC by the mid 1980s, but there remains a following to this day.
Artiklar om Sinclair ZX Spectrum från 1982 [Larsolofsson.se]
