>>Brings back memories to the good "old" days :) ZX-81 was the first computer I >ever worked on at home. ZX-81, Vic-20, NewBrain, C64, Amiga1000 and the list >goes on!
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>I sat in the window of a Sterns dept store to do BASIC homework on a vic 20 for a girl I was dating at the time.
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>Our son_ now sits at the 900mhz pentium and makes her cards.

This same daughter (who is actually just two weeks older than that Spectrum) now tells me to launch ICQ - she's doing her homework on the other machine, and needs to ask me a question or two. She's actually five meters away, in the next room :)