I was there, at the PCW Show at Earls Court, when the Spectrum was launched. Well, it was actually just a brochure that was launched IIRC. But it was incredibl

I was there, at the PCW Show at Earls Court, when the Spectrum was launched. Well, it was actually just a brochure that was launched IIRC. But it was incredible; the 13-year-old me and hundreds of other people all just sitting where they could on the floor around the margins of the exhibition hall, reading about this incredible game-changing computer. Of course my dad got nagged to death for days afterwards, and eventually an order was placed but, when the end of the school summer holidays came round in September and it had still not arrived (I was up early every morning to meet the postman, just in case) we eventually cancelled the order and bought a Dragon 32 instead. That's a different story...