Sad to say, but I think you did... although I'm pleased that it still works and you still get enjoyment out of it. They were notoriously unreliable. My mum had

Sad to say, but I think you did... although I'm pleased that it still works and you still get enjoyment out of it. They were notoriously unreliable. My mum had a full-on meltdown in Currys over it in 1988, and she's not a meltdown kind of person. My best friend also had one, which also used to go wrong regularly. This is all anecdata, of course. Still, both the manager of the local Currys (Dorchester), and the owner of the nearest proper computer store - Compute-A-Tape[1] in Weymouth - both said at the time they had nothing but trouble with the Spectrum.. Maybe something to do with the Dorset air but as much as I loved my Spectrum it caused me endless grief. [1] A trip here was a rare treat, although sadly the place closed down sometime in the 90s.