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A keyboard where the keys are beautifully shaped to fit your fingertips. Or perhaps dinky rubbery affairs for that essential “non-slip” texture. The blissful screech of the tape loading, and the endless swearing when you had to rewind and try again. Ahhh, those were the days.

I am of course referring to the legendary Sinclair Spectrum: arguably the best computer ever in the world. It may not have had the blistering graphics capabilities of today’s machines, or the masses of memory space for programmers to fool around with, but by jimminy it had charm. And who needs more than 48k of RAM anyway? Pah!

Anyway, when I get all nostalgic like this, I often like to frequent a website dedicated to the Best Computer Magazine In The World: Your Sinclair. What a marvelous publication that was. It went on to spawn ZERO magazine for the 16 bits (I was an Atari ST man myself), and then Game Zone.

The website I’m referring to is Your Sinclair The Rock ‘N’ Roll Years. Check it out. Now excuse me while I stick on Hold My Hand Very Tightly…