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> For us, the Spectrum was everything the Apple ][ was to you I really doubt that. I had a Spectrum at home with the microdrives and the Sinclair printer (silv

> For us, the Spectrum was everything the Apple ][ was to you I really doubt that. I had a Spectrum at home with the microdrives and the Sinclair printer (silver paper, remmber that?). I used Apple 2s at school and taught with them at summer camp. I loved both machines and learned both 6502 and Z80 machine code thans to them. We also had the gorgeous BBC Micros with the Tube coprocessor and disk drives. The Spectrum was never going to be a business PC - just the keyboard tells you that. Not even the rather nice QL had a poper business keyboard.

memsom 6y ago
But the Speccy was to us in the UK, what the Apple][ was in the US. The funny weird home grown computer that everyone still seems to love despite it being old, quirky and obsolete. The +2, +2A/B and +3 has much more standard keyboards. The BBC dominated Schools in the part of the UK I lived in. I never saw an Apple ][ - I think the only one I ever saw in real life was in a museum.