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30 Years Ago This Week 
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paulzolo
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Actually, no one here (including me) mentioned this on the day, but on 23rd April 1982:

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The ZX Spectrum is 30 years old. The successor to Sir Clive Sinclair's ZX81 - at the time the world's best selling consumer computer - it introduced colour "high resolution" graphics and sound.

It also offered an extended version of Sinclair Basic, a computer language with which hundreds of thousands of users were already familiar.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17776666

And this is well worth a look too
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17793214

And for my part, I took some photos of my own Spectrum and posted them on Flickr.
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IMG_5311 by hairydalek, on Flickr

The full set here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hairydalek ... 9889933459

I also recommend digging through Rick Dickinson’s Flickr sets for some real Sinclair design gems.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9574086@N0 ... 812198325/

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paulzolo wrote:
Actually, no one here (including me) mentioned this

Are you high? >clicky<

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I was -3 years and 50 weeks :D
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In addition to that It was twenty years ago today, Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play.

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