It’s an auspicious moment for retrocomputing fans, as it’s now four decades since the launch of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. This budget British microcomputer was never the best of the bunch, but its ...

Looking back from a world of smartphones and Xboxes, it’s astonishing that such a commercially successful product could have happened with this unglamorous and flawed piece of equipment. Yes, I’m a ...

The ZX Spectrum was a 1980s icon which played a starring role in the revolution that brought computers into the UK’s homes for the first time. The 8-bit computer arrived in 1982 with its distinctive ...

In April 1982 a small British company, led by Sir Clive Sinclair, launched the ZX Spectrum computer and sparked a revolution. The small, black computer with iconic rubber keys ignited the home ...

It's probably fitting that Rick Dickinson's interest in design was first kindled by Lego. Speaking to Edge magazine in 2004, the industrial designer behind Sinclair's iconic 1980s home computers, who ...

For many, the 1980s was the golden era in home computing. Low cost 8-bit systems brought arcade games to the masses, while offering the ability to handle basic office tasks at the same time. Companies ...

Industrial designer Rick Dickinson, best known for his work with Sinclair Computers on the ZX and QL families of microcomputers, has passed away following a battle with cancer. Having joined Sinclair ...

The ZX81 is 42. The meaning of life. And it kind of was to a generation of British school kids. That is, if they could keep the 16KB RAM pack connected for long enough. Typing on the ZX81’s hideous ...

At the beginning of the home computer revolution, the humble compact cassette was far and away the most popular choice for microcomputer data storage, especially on the European continent. As a ...

We pay tribute to the Sinclair ZX Spectrum – a computer that created an entire ecosystem of programmers, publishers, hardware makers, and gamers. One cold Christmas in 1977, Mel Croucher was at a ...

When Maurizio Banavage was about 15, he was given an old Spectrum ZX81 computer to convert into traffic lights for a school project. When friends and relatives realised what he could do, they started ...