The ZX Spectrum is perhaps most fondly remembered as a home computer and a games machine. [Tito] has grabbed the faithful black plastic box and turned it into a frequency counter as an innovative ...

There's more than warm power supplies and wonky capacitors Opinion  The Voyager space probes are dear to the hearts of every geek who can remember the 1980s.… The twin robotic spacecraft launched in ...

I remember it like it was yesterday. I'm sitting there, in my parent's lounge, as my dad comes down the stairs with what looks like a black box. He peels back the paper sleeve to reveal a polystyrene ...

The Sinclair ZX Spectrum is something of a legend in computing circles, as it was one of the very first reasonably priced home computers on which it was possible to actually do interesting stuff. By ...

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Radiohead has never shied away from arty and elaborate "special edition" versions of its albums, which normally ship to fans with unique artwork and limited vinyl. But Tuesday's collector's item ...

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ZX Spectrum fans might be interested in a new project which has been published by shred.zone documenting the process of making a modern replica of the British ZX Spectrum 8-bit personal computer.

It may have been startlingly modern once, but at 30, the Sinclair Spectrum is as close in time to the world's first commercial computers of the 50s as it is to the latest iPad. It's doing rather ...

Older gamers and students of history might recall the ZX Spectrum, a primarily UK-based console from the early 1980s. Even so, you might not know the patchy history of Willy's Great Adventure, first ...

In the U.K., the iconic 8-bit home computer of the 1980s was the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. Few keyboards have surely been pounded as hard as the Spectrum’s rubberised complement of grey rectangles.