I remember when the ZX Spectrum was originally launched, 30 years ago today Sinclair launched the ZX Spectrum, which was the follow-up to the ZX81, and Sinclair sold a total of 5 million units of the ...

30 years ago today, the ZX Spectrum was born, and some of you still bang on about it. That's because it was brilliant and cheap (£125/£175) - much cheaper than rivals BBC Micro (£299/£399) and ...

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AS the ZX Spectrum computer turns 30 today, The Scotsman looks back on why Sir Clive Sinclair’s sleek black and rainbow-coloured box set the course for the way we play today Did you know with a ...

The ZX Spectrum shouldn’t have been that big of a deal. It was a budget and underpowered personal computer released at a time when the personal computer industry had more options than most people ...

More than five million copies of the various ZX Spectrum computers were sold over the family's eight year lifespan, not including third-party clones. The thin Bauhaus-inspired design was sleeker than ...

We live in a world of bedroom coders creating apps in mere hours and Instagram selling for $1bn, but rather than Apple's App Store, it was the launch of the ZX Spectrum in 1982 that kick-started the ...