13 Apr
2012
13 Apr
'12
4:10 p.m.
On 04/12/2012 10:08 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
On 04/12/2012 10:45 PM, Jason T wrote:
I never saw a single one in those days. As close as anybody got was
two friends that had Timex-Sinclair 1000s (I had one as well, still have
it) and another friend who had a 2068.
I have STILL never seen a Spectrum in person. I'd really love to play
with one.
One day I'll get mine shipped over to this side of the Pond and will make
an attempt to haul it to a VCF. I have a ZX80 too, and I think I may have
kept hold of a +2 as well (the challenge of course will be hooking them up
to a display, because I really don't want to have to move a bunch of
PAL-capable TVs over if I can avoid it).
I seem to remember that there were some very good Spectrum emulators around
too, although of course they can't emulate how truly awful typing on a real
Spectrum's keyboard was :-)
Incidentally, despite the popularity of the Spectrum in the UK, I probably
saw about an equal number of C64s around the same time - there was
certainly no shortage of them over there.
cheers
Jules