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ZX Spectrum Ad - Check out the 48K of RAM!

submitted by spoco2

1 decade 7 years 11 months ago

The Sinclair ZX Spectrum was a revolution in it's day. Released in 1982 it was the first mainstream audience home computer in the UK. Originally launched with a choice of either 16K or 48K of RAM and a (what now seems) bizarre rubber keyboard, it was the computer that many grew up with (myself included).

Here is an ad which introduces the Spectrum+, basically the same machine but with a hard keyboard and a reset button...

Marvel at the raw power!

6 Comments

whats funny is its smaller than most of the pcs people own today and still looks pritty cool

It may well have been smaller, but man, did it do a lot less!

I still have a 48K and a 16K Spectrum at home with a host of games on casette... My guess is that most of the games won't load anymore due to corruption of the tapes... some of them are 24 years old... (man, that makes me feel old!)

oh i lost microprose soccer cassette for my c=64

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A cool ad with a cool tune.

Our town library would lend these things out. Damn, it was frustrating transcribing programs from magazine to it with that shitty keyboard and no way to save...

(we didn't have the tape recorder or whatever ones uses)

I had a ZX Spectrum 128K+ (not the one with the tape reader incorporated... that was the +2 I think). It was great. I really miss those days when we had to wait 15 minutes to load a game IF we were lucky enough for it to actually work!

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