Ive long been a little fascinated with the Cambridge Z88 and there is a whole world of things going to in the UK retro computer scene that look interesting but are completely alien to me.
Also broadly speaking this should be about the UK retro computing scene in general. Covering Amstrad, Acorn and the BBC Micro, Cambridge Computers; possibly others?
Open questions immediately on the top of my brain:
- So many basic dialects and many of them with Sinclairs direct involvement. Like what is the deal?
- Amstrad and the ZX Spectrum seem to have so many models, my eyes glaze over thinking about them. Much like I do now when people talk about variations of the Amiga or Commodore. But I kinda grock the driving force with some of the western counterparts like Amiga. Also Amstrad made ZX Spectrum clones? What is the story there?
- Architectures what were the common ones? Spectrum seemed focused on the Z80 which was ruling the world for a time it seems. Acorn invented the freaking Arm. What else was going on?
- So many of these things hooked directly to TV. The people with original hardware, what do they do now? Maybe because im all about handhelds and laptops I lack imagination here, but keeping a keyboard anchored to the TV seems so non ergonomic to me.
- ZX Spectrum has had a lot of hardware news in the past few years with some successful projects, some failed scamy crowdfunding things; but ive not kept most of it straight.
