Similar story here, my parents bought a Spectrum for the family and in my case I had to start reading the manuals as the casette-player we had didn't allow load

Similar story here, my parents bought a Spectrum for the family and in my case I had to start reading the manuals as the casette-player we had didn't allow loading any games, and of course in the UK shops were closed over Christmas. I too wrote up some early memories: https://blog.steve.fi/how_i_started_programming https://blog.steve.fi/how_i_started_programming