It was the computer that introduced a generation to video gaming, helped to earn Sir Clive Sinclair a knighthood and even made programming cool: the ZX Spectrum has a lot to answer for. But when, 30 ...

Who remembers the winter of 1985? In the UK, it was one of the coldest for many years, although east-west tension was beginning to thaw as US president Ronald Reagan met with Mikhail Gorbachev in ...

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 ...

Sir Clive Sinclair, the man behind the famous ZX Sinclair Spectrum computers, has passed away at his London home aged 81, his family has confirmed. The entrepreneur was most widely known for ...

If you weren’t a kid in the 1980s, retro TV shows might have you believe we spent all our time slaying demogorgons or waxing the classic cars of old Okinawan men. But we also played computer games, ...

Industrial designer who gave the ZX80, ZX81 and ZX Spectrum their distinctive look has died of cancer in the US The designer of the Sinclair Spectrum home computer, Rick Dickinson, has died of cancer ...

I, like many, spend many years playing Spectrum games. I defended the computer in the school playground, I kept playing with the machine long after everyone had migrated to likes of the Atari ST and ...

Retro Games Ltd and Plaion recently unveiled The Spectrum, a fully-functional recreation of the iconic ZX Spectrum home computer. In a world of mini consoles and modern-day re-releases, The Spectrum ...

Sir Clive Sinclair’s ZX Spectrum home computer was a minimalist slab of plastic and rubber, topped off with rainbow stripes down the side – a masterpiece of understatement in an age of overkill. And ...

The Spectrum is a recreation of the iconic ZX Spectrum, complete with working rubber keys and 48 built-in games, plus a special copy of Crash magazine. The ZX Spectrum launched the same year I was ...

Technology pioneer Sir Clive Sinclair has died at the age of 81, his family have confirmed. The entrepreneur was most widely known for popularising the use of a home computer and was also the inventor ...