You'll notice of course that the modern Raleigh Chopper bike no longer has the gear stick immediately in front of the teenage pilot's bits and pieces. In my day, that gear stick contributed to many a tear in the eye and lump in the throat! Also pleased to see that the hairstyles in the Soda Stream advert are not making a comeback. Now I had a ZX Spectrum, and contrary to the article it was just about the only "micro" (thanks, Russbiker) whose keys could not fall out if held upside-down because the keyboard was a single sheet of rubber poking through holes in the case. Later models, notably the Amstrad manufactured 'Spectrum+' did have wobbly keys, but not the original one shown in the photo here. The re-release is £100, about the same as it was in 1982 when my weekly wage packet as an apprentice electronic technician was £48, so the ZX Spectrum 48k was a small fortune in those days.
Blasts from the past
The likes of records and cassettes may feel like obsolete fragments of history, and Crocs a fashion statement many would happily leave in the past, but these classics of their times have actually resurfaced in recent years. Read on to take a look at some once-dead products that have made a comeback, by popular demand or not...
lovemoney staff
12 January 2022
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The Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum etc. weren't known as PCs then - they were called micros, short for microcomputer. PC was the term coined by IBM for the first 'real' computers.
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12 July 2017