[eye30]

 Britons of a certain age (predominately blokes in their 40s or 50s) will go misty-eyed if you mention the Sinclair Spectrum – or “Speccy”.

In the early ‘80s, the quirky, affordable home computer was responsible for keeping a huge number of us locked in our bedrooms, not only playing games but learning how to code.

'It looks like a really old remote control' - Watch young kids try a Sinclair Spectrum - BT

[Shambles]

   "I'm already bored" 

[Phil №❶]

 Never owned one but sure remember the advertising. I remember the home built computers that would give you a hex code as an output. Fancy getting excited over that, the measure of a true geek. 

My 1st code was on a 16K ram Microbee, it was

100 Print "Hello!"

Output

>Hello!

[Johnno]

I bought a zx spectrum when they first came out, would spend all night into the early hours inputting the code out of a magazine and after many hours click finished and the *&&%$%£ wouldn't work

[Phil №❶]

Been there, done that, too. Even worse finding an error with machine code mnemonics. 

[The Gonz]

My first computer was an ETI660 kit-built single board computer with a hex keypad and modulator output to a TV. My next was a 16K RAM Microbee which I then boosted to 32K. I wrote a lot of my own programs and saved them to a cassette tape. I even had a couple published in Computer Fun'n'Games circa 1987. Those were the days.

[Wingerdave]

My first computer was an Epson HX20.