My first love was the Sinclair ZX81, mainly because the CP/M I got shown at school was always busy. I was really fortunate to have supportive parents to help buy one, although they expressed almost immediate regret when I didn’t sleep for 52 hours and then proceeded to throw up late Boxing Day, as I hadn’t blinked since I hooking it up to flickering black and white TV.
Anyway, nostalgia alert - here’s a ZX Spectrum ‘laptop’, of which I think is just some modern hardware and an emulated ROM. Still, look at this beast!
Commodore 64 had such a fancy keyboard. The Spectrum ‘dead flesh’ silicone keyboard was a sight to behold. Felt clammy even when new.
The ZX-81 had a bare membrane to press (a sort of angry headnod to blind people I guess), and if you pressed too hard the RAM pack on the back would wobble (it only came with 1K) and the system would immediately reboot. Good times.
