I never had this one, I started with the Spectrum+ manual in 1984, which was considerably smaller than this one but also a lot more colourful and inviting for a

I never had this one, I started with the Spectrum+ manual in 1984, which was considerably smaller than this one but also a lot more colourful and inviting for an eight-year-old kid. I have very fond memories of typing in and eventually understanding the spider program in that book, even though I remember it took me a frustratingly long time to find the '|' character on the Spectrum keyboard for the spider's thread (Extend Mode, Symbol Shift-S). https://ia904509.us.archive.org/35/items/NH2021_spectrumplusmanual.pdf/spectrumplusmanual_text.pdf https://ia904509.us.archive.org/35/items/NH2021_spectrumplus...