Load ZX Spectrum – first Museum dedicated to our first personal computer
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Re: Load ZX Spectrum – first Museum dedicated to our first personal computer
#2The emphasis should be on "our" in the title: I think they mean Portugal's first involvement, which was around 1984. If you took "our" to mean Earth, then other PCs predate the ZX Spectrum and these.
Re: Load ZX Spectrum – first Museum dedicated to our first personal computer
#3Nice, I live in PT. Will visit. I have around 30 working speccy's and especially the rubber key ones give me great nostalgic joy even though I was an MSX child.
Re: Load ZX Spectrum – first Museum dedicated to our first personal computer
#4The emphasis should be on "our" in the title: I think they mean Portugal's first involvement, which was around 1984. If you took "our" to mean Earth, then other PCs predate the ZX Spectrum and these. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timex_Computer_2048
Of course there was the 'holy trinity' of the TRS-80, PET and Apple II in 1977. But even with Sinclair, the ZX80 / ZX81 came before the Spectrum.
https://cybernews.com/editorial/the-1977-trinity-and-other-e...
Re: Load ZX Spectrum – first Museum dedicated to our first personal computer
#5I love vintage computers, have a vintage computer collection, and have enjoyed visiting computer museums, but does this computer museum website really need to send me desktop notifications?
Re: Load ZX Spectrum – first Museum dedicated to our first personal computer
#6I visited a couple years ago - it was lovely to finally touch an authentic Spectrum, 3 decades after spending my early life hacking around on various clones. Was well worth the 30 minute ride from Coimbra.
Re: Load ZX Spectrum – first Museum dedicated to our first personal computer
#7The emphasis should be on "our" in the title: I think they mean Portugal's first involvement, which was around 1984. If you took "our" to mean Earth, then other PCs predate the ZX Spectrum and these. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timex_Computer_2048
Indeed, I was part of this generation, the first real computer I got, by opposition to build your own kits from electronic stores, was the Timex 2068 from that same factory.
Only recently I got to understand Timex spotlight in USA was long gone, while in the Iberian Penisula it was still all over the place, alongside ZX Spectrums and some MSX models.
I never knew anyone with a C64 back then.
Then the next computing wave was mostly Amiga, there were some people with Sam Coupe, until Windows 3.1 came to be, which is when I left my dear Timex 2068 into PC land, buying on credit, hardly anyone could afford paying on the spot.
Re: Load ZX Spectrum – first Museum dedicated to our first personal computer
#8The emphasis should be on "our" in the title: I think they mean Portugal's first involvement, which was around 1984. If you took "our" to mean Earth, then other PCs predate the ZX Spectrum and these. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timex_Computer_2048
Indeed, I was part of this generation, the first real computer I got, by opposition to build your own kits from electronic stores, was the Timex 2068 from that same factory. Only recently I got to understand Timex spotlight in USA was long gone, while in the Iberian Penisula it was still all over the place, alongside ZX Spectrums and some MSX models. I never knew anyone with a C64 back then. Then the next computing w…
Hi I also was part of this generation. My first was a Sinclair ZX81 with 1 kb ram :)
Re: Load ZX Spectrum – first Museum dedicated to our first personal computer
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Indeed, I was part of this generation, the first real computer I got, by opposition to build your own kits from electronic stores, was the Timex 2068 from that same factory. Only recently I got to understand Timex spotlight in USA was long gone, while in the Iberian Penisula it was still all over the place, alongside ZX Spectrums and some MSX models. I never knew anyone with a C64 back then. Then the next computing w…
Hi I also was part of this generation. My first was a Sinclair ZX81 with 1 kb ram :)
And a double deck tape player, also made into your collection?
That was eventually the next step, for the school trading ground activities.
Not that the Portuguese shops had any original stuff anyway, I bought several games with clear copied covers in black and white, without manuals.
Re: Load ZX Spectrum – first Museum dedicated to our first personal computer
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hi I also was part of this generation. My first was a Sinclair ZX81 with 1 kb ram :)
And a double deck tape player, also made into your collection? That was eventually the next step, for the school trading ground activities. Not that the Portuguese shops had any original stuff anyway, I bought several games with clear copied covers in black and white, without manuals.
For the ZX81 there was almost none programs! I could get a chess and a flight simulator (1kb Ram), the rest i used to get from printed magazines. But for later with the Spectrum the double deck tape player was a must! We would go to the local shop and buy one game, when home, duplicate it then return it saying that it didn't load well. want another and pick a different one and so on...